How Galloping Gertie's collapse left us a lasting design legacy. Not surprisingly, the concrete and steel of the center span that now lay on the bottom of the Narrows was deemed a total loss. The ...

Abutment – A substructure element supporting each end of a single span or the extreme ends of a multi-span superstructure and, in general, retaining or supporting the approach embankment. Anchor span ...

Look here for the "nuts and bolts" of design, construction, and operations. How did they build the 1940 and 1950 Narrows Bridges? What are the parts of a suspension bridge? What architectural ...

All Washington State agencies are required to comply with the Washington State compensation structure, which consists of a collection of salary schedules, definitions and application of overtime ...

In September 2002, construction began on Tacoma Narrows Bridge III. Two years later, the project was nearly half complete. By September 2004, bridge builder Tacoma Narrows Constructors had finished ...

FHWA is charged with the broad responsibility of ensuring that America's roads and highways continue to be the safest and most technologically up-to-date.