• Top 10 Most Valuable College Degrees
  
  
• ASCE Bestows 10 Outstanding Projects with OCEA Honor Awards
  

• I-40 Bridge Fracture Questions Remain

• Florida International University Bridge Collapse
  • Future of Bridges | Florida bridge collapse has some hard lessons
  • FIU Bridge Collapse - A tragedy at many levels
  • Final NTSB Report
  • Analysis of the FIU Pedestrian Bridge Collapse
  • OSHA Investigation Slams FIGG for FIU Bridge Collapse
    

• I-40 Bridge Fracture Questions Remain
• Completely New, Possibly Perfect Way to Build Bridges
• This Norwegian bridge is also an art museum
• Genoa Bridge Collapse: The Road to Tragedy - Failure animation
• World’s tallest residential building, Central Park Tower
• ASCE celebrated the Kaibab Trail Suspension Bridge
• Japan Plans for Supertall Wooden Skyscraper in Tokyo by 2041
• This 57-Floor Chinese Skyscraper Was Completed in Merely 456 Hours!
• 30-Story Hotel in Changsha, China built in 15 days!
• See the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge’s 42,000 Hours of Construction in 4 Minutes
• The Halley VI Antarctic Research Station Wins ASCE’s 2015 OCEA Award
• Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Council on Tall buildings and Urban Habitat (CTHUH) - www.CTHUH.org

• Skyscraper Center
• 100 Tallest Completed Building
• SkycraperPage.com

International Database and Gallery of Structures - structurae.net

• Structural Types
• Persons

AISC IDEAS² Awards

• 2024 Winners
• 2023 Winners
• 2022 Winners
• 2021 Winners
• 2020 Winners
• 2019 Winners
• 2018 Winners

Infrastructure

• 2021 - ASCE gives US infrastructure a C- :Years of neglect have left US infrastructure in C- shape requiring $5.9 trillion of work over the next decade, according to the latest Infrastructure Report Card from the the American Society of Civil Engineers. However, the organization noted some progress since the last report four years ago when the grade was D+, although 11 of 17 categories today remain in the D range, indicating a "strong risk of failure."

• 2021 ASCE Tennessee Infrastructure Report Card

• 2018 FHWA’s 2017 National Bridge Inventory Data

• 2009 ASCE Tennessee Infrastructure Report Card

• US infrastructure in Poor Repair

National Council of Structural Engineers Associations (NCSEA)
Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards

• 2022 Awards
• 2021 Awards
• 2020 Awards - video
• 2019 Awards
• 2018 Awards
• 2017 Awards
• 2016 Awards
• 2015 Awards
• 2013 Awards
• 2012 Awards
• 2011 Awards
• 2010 Awards
• 2009 Awards
• 2008 Awards
• 2007 Awards
   
• Structure Magazine online

National Steel Bridge Alliance (NSBA) Prize Bridge Competition

• NSBA 2024 Prize Bridge Awards
• NSBA 2020 Prize Bridge Awards
• MSC - Eight Decades of Award-Winning Bridges
• NSBA Prize Bridge Awards 2016
• NSBA Prize Bridge Awards 2014
• NSBA Prize Bridge Awards 2012
• NSBA Prize Bridge Competition 2009
• NSBA Prize Bridge Competition 2007 (Summary)
• NSBA Merit Bridge Competition 2007 (Summary)
• NSBA Prize Bridge Competition 2005
• NSBA Prize Bridge Competition 2003
• NSBA Prize Bridge Competition 2001
   
• Spreadsheet of all past NSBA winners

Structures

• Nice Wikipedia entry on structural engineering and  structural failure
• The Skyscraper Museum
• Dynamic Tower Skyscraper: Every Floor Self-Rotates, Powered by the Wind and Sun
• Interesting information on the structural failure of the World Trade Center: NOVA's "Why the Towers Fell"
• The World Trade Center and 9/11: A Discussion on Some Engineering Design Issues
• The new World Trade Center Design
• Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater's house
• Seven engineering wonders of world
• The state of the infrastructure in the U.S.
• Phoenix Cardinal's new stadium
• Great Achievements: John A. Roebling
• Construction of the Eiffel Tower
   

Bridges

• Lone Tree Bridge
• Longest cathedral-arch bridge in U.S. nears completion
• L.A. Council OKs demolition of 6th Street Bridge
• The longest suspension span bridges in the world
• The Liberty Bridge in Greenville, SC
• The Ravenel Bridge on the Cooper Rive in SC
• The Turtle Bay Sundial Bridge in Redding CA
• The monster bridge for Italy
• The Gateway Bridge - in Detroit MI
• Ancient roman bridge building techniques (Clonmacnoise Bridge)
• Timothy Palmer - The Nestor of American Bridge Builders
   

I-35W Bridge Failure

• The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announced that a serious design flaw was found in some of the gusset plates on the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, which collapsed on August 1, 2007. As a result, the NTSB issued a recommendation that the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) require bridge owners to verify that the stress levels in all structural elements, including gusset plates, remain within applicable requirements whenever planned modifications or operational changes may significantly increase stresses. This would apply to all non-load-path-redundant steel truss bridges within the National Bridge Inventory.
   

• The collapse of this bridge led to 13 deaths, 145 injuries and serious disruption to the lives of thousands of motorists and residents in the region. ASCE again extends it condolences to the victims of this tragedy. As a profession, it is our obligation to learn all that we can from such events. ASCE will continue to monitor the NTSB’s investigation and will incorporate the recommendations and lessons learned into our future technical and professional policies and standards.
   

• ASCE urges its members to review the NTSB’s report and recommendations.

  NTSB Safety Recommendation Letter
  
  FHWA Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center Interim Report - Adequacy of the U10 & L11 Gusset Plate Designs for the Minnesota Bridge No. 9340 (I-35W over the Mississippi River)
  
  I-35 Bridge was doomed from the Start  by Tony Kennedy and Paul McEnroe - Star Tribune staff writers October 26, 2008

This website was originally developed by Charles Camp for CIVL 3121. This site is maintained by the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Memphis. Your comments and questions are welcomed.