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Bridges -- Design and construction BridgePros 
 News, construction, engineering, and history of bridges. Bridge Projects covers past (cable-stayed, cantilever truss, concrete arch, movable span, segmental, steel arch, and suspension), current, and planned bridge projects worldwide; Learning Center discusses types of bridges, has models, and links to lesson plans; Links categories include bridge failures, covered bridges, bridge sites of state departments of transportation, bridge inspection, magazines, and associations. Also job listings, news, world records, book and video reviews, and discussion forum. http://bridgepros.com/ Topics: Architecture, Transportation Last updated Feb 13, 2003 Bridging the Bay: Bridging the Campus
Exploring "the design and politics of Bay Area bridges," this site contains "books, documents, architectural drawings and renderings, blueprints, artifacts, maps, and photographs." Includes the Golden Gate Bridge, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, the Carquinez Bridge, the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, the Antioch Bridge, and the Dumbarton Bridge. Also features documents detailing projects under consideration, but never built. A collaboration of eight libraries from the University of California, Berkeley. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/news_events/bridge/ Topics: Transportation Last updated Dec 21, 2006 Digital Bridges: Bridges of the Nineteenth Century: A Twenty-First Century Book Collection
This "site consists of a collection of thirty representative 19th century American bridge engineering monographs, manuals, and documents from the Lehigh University Libraries' Special Collections." Browsable and searchable. Also includes glossaries of bridge terms, personal and corporate names, and specific bridges. http://bridges.lib.lehigh.edu/ Topics: Architecture, Transportation Last updated Sep 9, 2006 FHWA Inspection Reports for the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge
Several independent reports from the Bay Bridge pile connection plate welding investigation. From the U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/reports/irsfobb/ Topics: Architecture, Transportation Last updated Jul 26, 2005 Golden Gate Bridge
This site is a companion to a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) American Experience documentary about "the construction of what was then [1937] the longest suspension bridge in the world, built hundreds of feet above the dangerously churning waters of the entrance to San Francisco Bay." The site features a timeline, photos of bridge construction, information about people and events, and a discussion of mathematical principles. Also includes video clips, a teacher's guide, and related material. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldengate/ Topics: Architecture, Transportation Last updated May 4, 2004 History of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge
History and images of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge "from the inception to the reopening of a reconstructed bridge in 1950." Sections follow the construction, opening, collapse, aftermath, and reconstruction of this bridge. Includes a bibliography. From Special Collections at the University Libraries, University of Washington. http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcoll/exhibits/tnb/ Topics: Architecture, Transportation Last updated Jan 31, 2006 New Bay Bridge.org
"This site illustrates and describes every phase of the new East Span construction" of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Includes articles and photo galleries about all aspects of the construction process, individuals involved in the project, and history of the original bridge. Project drawings, primary documents, links to historical photos, study materials for middle school, glossary of bridge building terms. New material will be added as the construction proceeds. From the California Alliance for Jobs. http://newbaybridge.org/ Topics: Architecture, Photograph Collections, Transportation Last updated Oct 20, 2005 Tacoma Narrows Bridge
This fact-filled Web site provides information on the history and future of Washington state's Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which became known as Galloping Gertie, "the most dramatic failure in bridge engineering history," when it collapsed just four months after completion. Find resources, lessons, timelines, trivia, photos, and information on the current Tacoma Narrows Bridge, completed in 1950, as well as updates on new construction. From the Washington State Department of Transportation. http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/TNBhistory/ Topics: Transportation Last updated May 17, 2004 |
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