The Spanish engineer Javier Manterola Armisén received last Thursday, November 8, in Mexico, the Lorenzo H. Zambrano prize, the highest award given by the Cemex cement company, for his 56 years of experience as a designer of emblematic bridges. The award was collected in his name...

The Viaduct over the Narcea River, on the new section of the A63 motorway between Doriga and Cornellana, Asturias, is a unique structure 875 meters long and 75 meters high above the valley floor. The viaduct has six piles and seven bays, the most important of which has a span of...

 The deck is currently being launched on the arch. In order to do so, two twin formworks advance from the north and south spans. Once the formworks reach the first pylons, concreting takes place on both sides at the same time, in order to reduce differential deformations. This...

Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority (WDBA) announced today that a significant milestone has been met in the public-private partnership (P3) procurement process with the selection of Bridging North America as the Preferred Proponent to design, build, finance, operate and maintain the...

View of the current construction of the approach spans placed span by span with movable formwork provided by BERD. (Photograph: Fernando de Yzaguirre) According to information published in the Colombian press by the Ministry of Transport, the National Road Institute...

The CEBU Link JV, comprised of ACCIONA and the Philippine companies First Balfour and D.M. Consunji Inc, has been awarded the international tender to build a new connection between the islands of Cebú and Mactán in the Philippines. The end client is the concessionaire Cebu...

The Minister of Public Works, Íñigo de la Serna and the Chairman of the Principality, Javier Fernández, inaugurated the 2.3 kilometer Doriga-Cornellana section of highway A-63 on 26 December. The official act was also attended by the General Manager for Spain and Portugal of...

Every three years, the Foundation grants the “José Entrecanales Ibarra Awards” to promote Civil Engineering as an acknowledgement of its most outstanding professionals and to highlight its importance in the area of Development Cooperation. The international awards are granted in...

The Real bridge in Orizaba, State of Veracruz in México, was opened to traffic on Monday, 16 October 2017, after being inaugurated with a Fun Run on the previous Sunday, when it was opened for pedestrians. The bridge was designed by CFCSL in conjunction with MEXPRESA, the...

At the end of August, the situation of the construction works on the New Ross Bridge (Ireland), designed by CFCSL, is shown in green in the following graph: The bridge over the Barrow river has a total length of 887 m and is comprised of 9 no. spans, of which 4 no. are...