truss — A framework of triangulated forms in which all loads are carried by compression or tension in each member of the frame. It is time for the fire service to make peace with an old nemesis: the ...

Truss bridges have a long pedigree. The first ones were made of wood and erected in various European countries at least as early as the 16th century. Beginning in the late 1700s, many of them were ...

Town Bridge, Canton CT By Sphilbrick - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26395077 The Town Bridge in Canton, Connecticut, was ...

Connecticut has a number of must-see trail bridges constructed more than a century ago or built in the not-so-distant past.

The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on 26 March was a shocking and tragic event. Six people remain unaccounted for in the disaster, which saw the world’s third largest continuous ...