During their first unit in the school’s Discovery Lab, John Lewis Childs School fifth graders are learning about bridges. Working in groups, the students create truss bridges out of connector strips.

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Modifications have been ordered for some Oklahoma bridges with designs similar to a bridge involved in a deadly collapse in Minnesota in 2007, transportation officials announ-ced Tuesday. The state ...

Steel truss bridges are a common sight on roads and railways around the world, with many dating back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Despite their high strength-to-weight ratio, which ...

Of the 756 American bridges that share a design with the collapsed Minnesota span, almost a quarter stand in Ohio. They're not flashy, just roads atop trusses, a mishmash of connected steel sticks ...

OLYMPIA, WA - The Washington State Department of Transportation is considering a program to raise the clearance height of some steel truss bridges built from the late 1940's to the early 1960's. There ...

As more bridges were removed to accommodate modern traffic, former Indiana County Historian Clarence Stephenson initiated ...

The restoration of the Bollman Truss Bridge wrapped up this week, returning the landmark to its original “federal red” just ...

Seattle inspectors checked two steel-truss bridges after the deadly Minneapolis bridge collapse, and Gov. Chris Gregoire on Thursday asked for a quick report on all of the state's 3,000 bridges. The ...