COLUMBIA, S.C.—The torrential rains from Florence will test South Carolina’s infrastructure, which failed under historic flooding in 2015. The devastating 2015 floods contributed to 19 deaths and crippled parts of the capital city, Columbia, for months. The state’s infrastructure, weakened…
HYAS, Sask.—A rural politician in eastern Saskatchewan says he’s at a loss to explain why a newly built bridge collapsed just hours after opening. Reeve Duane Hicks said the Dyck Memorial Bridge in the Rural Municipality of Clayton looked good…
OTTAWA—Cobble together all of Canada’s highways, arterials, local roads and laneways and they could take you to the Moon—though they’d fall just short of getting you back, assuming you couldn’t backtrack along the same, equally implausible strip of asphalt. Publicly-owned…
KINGSTON, Ont.—Early construction on a major new bridge over the Cataraqui River at Kingston, Ont. is set to get underway this fall. The City of Kingston announced the project team for the $180 million bridge Aug. 22. It tapped a…
GENOA, Italy—Engineering experts determined in February that corrosion of the metal cables supporting the Genoa highway bridge had reduced the bridge’s strength by 20 per cent — a finding that came months before it collapsed, Italian media reported Aug. 20.…
The company withdrew from the winning construction consortium at the tail end of the RFP stage. With the China takeover now dead, it’s stepping back in
GENOA, Italy—The Italian Cabinet has approved a 12-month state of emergency for Genoa after a key highway bridge collapsed August 14, killing at least 39 people. The bridge gave way during a sudden, violent storm, sending vehicles plunging 50 metres…
It may have been a little slow off the proverbial mark, but the federal government’s $180 billion infrastructure plan is now off and running. As of August 2018, the federal government has approved funding for thousands of projects across the…
Calgary’s new ring road is well on its way to becoming a full-fledged loop. Northeast and northwest sections opened to motorists wanting to bypass the city in 2009, and a southeast section was added four years later. If all goes…
RIVERVIEW, N.B.—Raymond Boucher says if you haven’t shared a kiss beneath the beams of a covered bridge, you’re missing out. A longtime New Brunswick resident, Boucher has fond memories of travelling through two covered bridges with the woman who would…
The bridge’s December deadline appears murkier as Francois-Philippe Champagne says he is not sure construction can be sped up enough to make up for lost time
DETROIT—U.S. and Canadian officials touted the friendship between the two countries while acknowledging the economic benefits a new international bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, will bring. A groundbreaking for the advance construction of the Gordie Howe International Bridge was…
PORT BRUCE, Ont.—Construction is underway on a temporary span to replace Imperial Road bridge in Port Bruce, Ont., which collapsed late February after heavy rain and snowmelt flooded the region. A gravel-filled dump truck was driving across the 54-year-old concrete…
The WDBA has tapped a preferred proponent to design, build, operate and maintain the major P3 project
HEDLEY, B.C.—A bridge replacement project has started in Hedley, B.C., 29 kilometres west of Keremeos, B.C. Langley, B.C.-based Dorosh Construction was awarded the $2.3-million contract to replace Hedley Bridge. The nearly 70-year-old structure will be dismantled, and a new two-lane,…
YELLOWKNIFE—Construction on a bridge over the Great Bear River in central Northwest Territories and a study looking at the feasibility of a wider project to build a new all-season road along hundreds of miles of the Mackenzie Valley are going…
OTTAWA—Official construction on the new bridge connecting Windsor, Ont. and Detroit, Mich. is set to begin this fall, according to the crown corporation responsible for the project. The Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority (WDBA) said work on advanced construction across the U.S.…
The so-called community benefits program aims to give Indigenous Peoples, veterans and recent immigrants a larger stake in Ottawa’s major infrastructure spending plan
WINDSOR, Ont.—In a transparent appeal to the increasingly pervasive “America first” rhetoric emerging from Washington, the company that controls the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit, Mich. and Windsor, Ont. released a television ad earlier this week calling on President Donald Trump…
CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C.—Repair work on a two-lane steel truss bridge over Campbell River, B.C., located on the east coast of Vancouver Island, is expected to begin this week. British Columbia’s Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure awarded a $2.56-million contract for…
