Bridge Related Links

Featured Sites:

Aesthetic Lighting of Florida Bridges An excellent web page showing examples of Florida's successful use of lighting to add beauty to their bridges.

Keep informed on transportation in the Pittsburgh area with Joe Grata, of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Bridges of the USA

• Bridges and Tunnels of Allegheny County & Pittsburgh An excellent website.
  
  
• Allegheny River Bridges Nicely done.
  
  
• Bridges of Portland Oregon
  
  
• Operation of Movable Bridges From the excellent website of the Multnomah County, Oregon Bridge Section.
  
  
• Historic Bridges of Oregon
• Brooklyn Bridge See a live image of the bridge.
• Golden Gate Bridge

• Boy Scouts of America Enda Lechauhanne Lodge #57
  Washington's Crossing Rededication Project
  

• Minnesota's Historic Bridges
• Bridge of Lions, St. Augustine, Florida
• Cincinnati Suspension Bridge
• Clark Bridge - Alton, Illinois The new cable-stayed bridge over the Mississippi. It was featured in the PBS Nova show Super Bridge.
• Royal Gorge Bridge
• Mighty Mac Mackinac Bridge
• Zoarville Station Bridge Zoarville, Ohio
• The Seven Bridges of McGilvray Road A series of bowstring arches from the turn of last century in Wisconsin's Van Loon Wildlife Area restored and maintained by The Friends of McGilvray Road.
• O'Rorke Bridge Project, Rochester, NY An excellent example of a project website. You can follow the progress of the bascule bridge replacement project with photographs and renderings.
• Hoan Bridge Milwaukee
• Old Bridge Signs Doug Coulter's interesting collection of plaques from old iron bridges.
• Hell Gate Bridge A fascinating article from Scientific American, June 8, 1907. Excellent graphics!
• Aesthetic Lighting of Florida's Bridges
• Maysville Cable-Stayed Bridge
• New Mississippi River Bridge

Bridges of the World

• Confederation Bridge (Northumberland Strait Crossing Bridge) Prince Edward Island, Canada
• Akashi Kaikyo Bridge (Japan) At over 3.9 km, it is the longest suspension bridge in the world.
• Humber Bridge
• Lions Gate Bridge American Bridge is currently rehabilitating this suspension bridge in Vancouver, British Columbia.
• Quebec Bridge (This site includes the fascinating story of the bridge's construction and collapses.)
• Le Pont de Normandie
• Raftsundet Bridge, Norway
• Bridges of Paris
• Bridges of Amsterdam
• Unofficial Rama VIII Bridge Site
• The Roman Aquaducts
• Federal Bridge Corporation (Canada)
• Baikal-Amur Railway Viaduct Very interesting space-frame piers used in this bridge in Russia.
• Le Viaduc de Millau This will be the tallest bridge is the world.
• Sydney Harbour Bridge You can climb it. Read an article about the bridge climb.

Covered Bridges

• Kentucky's Covered Bridges
• Maine's Covered Bridges
• Oregon's Covered Bridges
• Covered Bridges of Southeastern Pennsylvania
• West Virginia's Covered Bridges An excellent photographic essay.

Directories and Magazines

• Better Roads
• Bridge Builder Magazine
• Bridge Design and Engineering
• Bridge Management Systems Bibliography
• Buildnet - Building Industry Information Source - Many Internet Links
• CE News Online
• Historic Bridge Home Page An excellent website at the University of Florida
• World of Concrete - Interactive community for the concrete and masonry industry
• iCivilEngineer.com - Bridge Engineering
• Infrastructure Technology Institute Links to Bridge Related Information
• Roads & Bridges Online
• Steel Structures Technology Center
• National Conference on Wood Transportation Structures. This is a very useful resource for timber bridges.
• BridgePros  A Terrific website.  Check it out!
• National Bridge Research Organization. At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
• TRIS Online The powerful search engine of the Transportation Research Board.
• Guide to Monitoring
• Bridge Design & Engineering
• The Metalizing Journal
• LRFD Design support site
• Public Works Magazine

Professional Associations

•   American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)
  
•   American Concrete Institute (ACI)
  
•   American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC)
  
•   American Council of Engineering Companies of Pennsylvania (ACEC/PA)
  
•   American Institute of Architects (AIA-Pittsburgh Chapter)
  
•   American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC)
  
•   American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI)
  
•   American Public Works Association (APWA)
  
•   American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association (AREMA)
  
•   American Segmental Bridge Institute (ASBI)
  
•   American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE-National)
  
•   American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE-Pittsburgh Chapter)
  
•   American Society of Highway Engineers (ASHE)
  
•   American Society of Highway Engineers (ASHE-Pittsburgh Chapter)
  
•   American Society for Metals (ASM)
  
•   American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
  
•   American Welding Society (AWS)
  
•   Association of Engineering Geologists (AEG)
  
•   Association of Iron & Steel Engineers (AISE)
  
•   Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute (CRSI)
  
•   Deep Foundation Institute (DFI)
  
•   Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania (ESWP)
  
•   Institute of Civil Engineers (of England) (ICE, UK)
  
•   Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)
  
•   International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE)
  
•   National Association of Demolition Contractors (NADC)
  
•   National Bridge Research Organization Website of the NaBRO at U. Nebraska - Lincoln
  
•   National Steel Bridge Alliance (NSBA)
  
•   Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers (PSPE, Pittsburgh Chapter)
  
•   Portland Cement Association (PCA)
  
•   Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI)
  
•   Prestressed Concrete Association of Pennsylvania (PCAP)
  
•   Steel Construction Institute (SCI, UK)
  
•   West Virginia Society of Professional Engineers (WVPSE)
  

Governmental Agencies

• FHWA Bridge Division
• New York City's Movable Bridges
• Colorado DOT Bridge Branch A nicely laid out site.
• Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT)
• Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT)
  PENNDOT Bridge Standard Drawings
  PENNDOT Publications
  
• Pennsylvania Bulletin
• Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT Bridge & Structures Office)
• West Virginia Department of Transportation (WVDOT)
  WVDOT Publications
  

Consultants

• Michael Baker Corporation
• Bridge Automation Bridge Design Software, including several useful free applications, mostly metric
• Bridge Diagnostics, Inc.
• Calatrava The high-style website of the great contemporary bridge engineer and architect Santiago Calatrava.
• David Childs An excellent resource, includes tutorials with emphasis on U.K. design codes.
• Cleveland Bridge
• E.C. Driver & Associates A very interesting website with some nifty movable bridge details
• FieldPower - Fieldforce automation
• Figg Engineering
• Finley McNary Engineers
• Freyssinet
• Gannett Fleming Engineers and Planners
• L.A. Gates Company
• HDR Engineering
• InspectTech - Makers of software for bridge management and inspection.
• Interactive Design Services Pty Ltd (Australia) Arch bridges and buried arch structures
• L. Robert Kimball & Associates
• Klein and Hoffman structural engineers
• Lichtenstein Consulting Engineers
• T. Y. Lin International
• Matsuo Bridge Co., Ltd. (Japan - Lots of major bridge work. Interesting web site.)
• Modjeski and Masters
• Earth Tech
• NECO Engineers LFD and LRFD Design Software
• PONTING Consulting engineers, Ltd. (Slovenia)
• Rosales Gottemoeller & Associates Specialists in the aesthetics of bridges and transportation facilities.
• SAI Consulting Engineers
• Structural Software Inc.
• Wilbur Smith Associates

Manufacturers

• Acrow Corporation - Prefabicated modular steel panel bridges.
• Advanced Studwelding Systems Supplier of shear studs for the U.K.. Now in Asia and the U.S.
• Bailey Bridges, Inc.
• Bayer - Bridge Coatings and Pigments for Concrete
• BEBO Bridge System - Largest Precast Arches in the World
• Borg Adjustable Joist Hanger Company
• Joseph T. Butler, Inc. - Metallizing for Corrosion Control
• Cintec Anchoring System and Bridge Reinforcement
• Con-Serve, Inc. - Bearings
• CON/SPAN - Precast bridges and culverts
• Continental Bridge - Prefabricated steel bridges
• Cryotech - Environmentally friendly alternatives to salts for de-icing.
• Flexifloat Modular Barge Systems - Modular floatation system for bridges and barges.
• Front Range Precast - Custom designed, prefabricated bridges
• GT STRUDL
• Interlocking Deck Systems International - Weldless (and Welded) Steel Decks
• Mabey Bridge and Shore, Inc. - Modular Panel Bridge Systems.
• Nelson Stud Welding - Shear Studs
• Paxton-Mitchell Crane Division - Home of the SNOOPER®
• Quadricon Bridge Systems - Prefab Modular Steel Superstuctures
• Information about aluminum bridge decks by Reynolds Metal Company
• Roebling Online History A fascinating website about the family who popularized wire cable and designed the Brooklyn Bridge
• Schuylkill Products, Inc. - Precast / Prestressed concrete
• Smartbolt^TM - Tension measuring system for bolts
• Steadfast Bridges - Prefabricated steel bridges
• US Bridge - Prefabricated steel truss bridges
• R.J. Watson - Bearings, composite wrapping, expansion joints, waterproofing
• Western Wood Structures, Inc. - Timber bridges.
• Wheeler Lumber, LLC - Timber bridges
• York Bridge Concepts - Timber bridges

Universities - Civil Engineering Depts.

• Carnegie Mellon University
• Lehigh University
• Penn State
• University of Pittsburgh
• West Virginia University
• Certificate Program in Construction Management University of Washington Educational Outreach

Miscellaneous

• How Stuff Works A super website!