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The official opening of the pedestrian walkway and riverside development along the River Prisuerga banks in the city of Valladolid was held on 15 April. The City Mayor, Javier León de la Riva, and the President of the Douro Confederation, José Valín, visited the site of the newly...

The 37th annual IABSE Symposium – International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering- was held last week in Madrid entitled “Engineering for Progress, Nature and People”.  More Information CFC participated in the Symposium with a presentation by Javier...

Photographic report of the completed High-Speed Railway Viaduct over the River Tera in Zamora, Spain. Bridge data sheet Photo´s: Carlos Manterola (www.infotografia.es)

Juan Antonio Navarro,  a senior engineer with CFC, explains how the cantilever deck, without any kind of  back stays (218.5 m long on the midspan side and 198.5 m long on the compensation span side), is about to reach the first pier of the compensation span, as we can see in the...

Borja Martín Martínez, a CFCSL civil engineer, updates us on the current progress on this bridge. The execution of the central arch is just beginning. It has a 324 m long span and its height is 90 m above the average reservoir water level (point 3 of the figure below):  ...

  The execution of the piles has begun on the ‘Barra Vieja’ Bridge over the Papagayo River in the state of Guerrero (Mexico). Of a total of 130 piles of a 1.5 m diameter, more than 40 have been built to date. The “Barra Vieja’ was designed by CFCSL to replace the bridge...