Chances are, there won’t be overhead beams on the permanent span that replaces a collapsed section of the Interstate 5 Skagit River bridge. State engineers are now focusing on a steel-girder bridge, ...

SEATTLE - Chances are, there won't be overhead beams on the permanent span that replaces a collapsed section of the Interstate 5 Skagit River bridge. State engineers are now focusing on a steel-girder ...

To spectators, the 10-hour lift of a 528-ft-wide, 2,650-ton steel-truss-span assembly that is part of the Huey P. Long Bridge widening project may have seemed like watching paint dry, says John ...

Nine truss bridges similar to the Interstate 5 span that collapsed Thursday evening over the Skagit River traverse rivers in Clallam and Jefferson counties. And they present a similar danger of ...

Trusses are a fundamental tool in an engineer’s toolbox — a structurally simple way to transfer weight from one part of a roof to the walls or columns that are designed to withstand the effects of ...

Skagit County isn’t the only place where people are erecting temporary steel bridges this week. Engineering students from 49 universities will participate Saturday at the 2013 National Student Steel ...