China’s very large floating platforms are in the design and research phase for floating airports. Floating airports have been built in the past using pontoon structures and there are many interesting ...

In the central Vermont town of Brookfield (pop. 1,292), the world’s first floating fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) bridge has replaced a 1978 version that carried state Route 65 traffic over Sunset ...

For more than a decade, the construction world has kept an eye on efforts to build a new State Route 520 floating bridge—the world’s longest—which connects Seattle to points east on Lake Washington.

ENR Northwest 8/8-15/16 p. NW22 Design engineer gets technical with post-tensioning during demolition of a floating bridge in Seattle. For decades, the 7,580-ft-long concrete pontoon bridge, ...

Rising global sea levels, driven by the greenhouse effect, now pose an irreversible threat to coastal cities. Prof. Xiao Lin ZHAO, Chair Professor of Civil Infrastructure of the Department of Civil ...

SEATTLE -- There's currently 31 million pounds of material holding up the 520 Bridge, and there are a range of ideas for what should be done with that material when the new bridge opens.Conventional ...

Drogheda Port Authority has announced plans for a floating pontoon at Fiddle Case Pier, in efforts to promote more leisure use and tourist opportunities for the River Boyne. A report into the ...