It’s made of 100 percent recycled materials — detergent and shampoo bottles, car bumpers, dashboards. In fact, it’s the longest recycled bridge in the country. OK, it’s still not very long — only 24.6 ...
Bridge safety has been a hot topic lately, mainly because of the recent Bay Bridge nightmare that saw a cracked load-bearing beam come crashing down onto rush-hour traffic. But amidst all the news of ...
Caltrans’ tests reveal that some 50 percent of the required rock in concrete poured into parts of the Bay Bridge’s new western approach viaducts a year ago is actually chunks of old, ground-up ...
Axion International Holdings Inc., New Providence, N.J., a developer of recycled plastic and plastic composite technologies, participated in an official ribbon cutting ceremony on May 29 for a bridge ...
I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Best laptop cooling pads Best flip ...
The Onion Ditch Bridge in Logan County, Ohio is officially the longest recycled plastic bridge in the United States. The sturdy 24.6-foot-long bridge was constructed with AXION’s proprietary ECOTRAX ...
In 2011, residents of Daybreak, a 4,200-acre master-planned community in South Jordan, Utah, will drive, bike or walk across the $2-million Brookside Bridge, which is made almost completely out of ...
A Welsh startup called Vertech has built a 30-metre footbridge across the Tweed River in Scotland, made out of 50 tonnes of recycled plastic waste. There are multiple benefits of building a bridge out ...
This 90-foot bridge in Wales Scotland (whoops, the company is Welsh, not the bridge) is Europe's first to be made entirely out of recycled plastic, not to mention the longest plastic bridge ever built ...
With its heavy steel girders and rugged geometry, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge has always been an iconic part of the San Francisco Bay area. Now, as the eastern span of 76-year-old structure ...
I haven't done, like, an official study, but the letters to the editor in Monday morning's O might have tipped the scale: I think we've now had more commentary, in print and in the blogosphere, about ...