In Rwanda, there are two seasons: wet and dry. In the wet seasons, rivers can become life threatening. In Ruhango, the Rurumanza River connects two districts with a market on one side and a school on ...

Architect Masoud Akbarzadeh and research assistant Boyu Xiao of the Weitzman School of Design, along with collaborators including Yao Lu of Jefferson University, defied conventional engineering by ...

Last year, we co-founded The Building Bridges Project with the goal of promoting civil discourse and engaging in a respectful way with those whom we disagree with. As the old adage goes, “we can ...

Aging infrastructure is a major issue in the U.S. with nearly 50 percent of bridges considered in poor condition—nearly 12 percent are over 80 years old; 42 percent are over 50. Many have high volumes ...

The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most majestic structures on Earth. Even more impressive, perhaps, is that the bridge was built swiftly and opened in 1937, on time and under budget. This makes it ...

In the span of a single generation, China has redefined the limits of civil engineering, transforming itself from a nation reliant on foreign bridge-building expertise to the undisputed architect of ...

One look at any of the bridges today and you’d think the concept of this engineering marvel might just be about two or three centuries old. That’s not the case, though. Bridges have existed since time ...