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The Hawthorne Bridge: A Love-Hate Relationship

The Hawthorne Bridge is the creaky old senior citizen of Portland's numerous Willamette and Columbia River spans. Nearing its 100th birthday in 2010, the Hawthorne is our city's oldest bridge. I've always considered it my home bridge, so to speak, in that it's the one I use by far the most. It's not only convenient... Read more>>

Line bridge over Svratka river in Brno

Svratka with its low level gives no feeling of a real waterfront here. But the high quality of this river part is determined by its still green banks. The natural modelling of the river bed over its necessary regulation automatically becomes a part of the whole territory. The line... Read more>>

Perhaps in 2018, Ruzyně airport by underground

The construction of an extension to the Prague underground line A, running from Dejvická to Ruzyně airport, should be commenced at the turn of 2009/2010. This is to be expected on the basis of the change of the outline plan approved by the town council. T.Johánek... Read more>>

Corrosion Effect on Truss Bridge - Compression Chord Reliability

Abstract: This paper presents several aspects of the method for reliability assessment of compression chords of railway bridges considering non-linear general corrosion damage. A method is proposed to determine the probability density function of the ultimate strength using a... Read more>>

Both banks of the Odra river will be linked together by a guyed bridge

An unique traffic construction has been arising in Northern Moravia at the route of the future motorway D47 where the builders have been completing bridging of the Odra river and Antošovice lake. This bridge will be rare not only for its shape but also the assembling technology.... Read more>>

Battle for the northern route of the Prague ring road

It is still not clear, 17 years since the discussion was commenced, where the route of the ring road around Prague at its northern part is going to run. Even though the outline plan for the city of Prague accounts for the running of the road through the town district of Suchdol,... Read more>>

Tunnelling goes according to the plan

One of the most interesting traffic constructions is being realized in the South-western periphery of Prague, in the place of the future route of the highway belt. Constructions companies have been tunnelling circa 1,6 km-long tunnel through which the circle between Slivenec and... Read more>>

Bridges are cheaper than in Germany, tunnels are on the contr

Large motorway bridges are in the Czech Republic built about 14 % cheaper than in Germany whereas a kilometre of tunnel in the Czech Republic is 27 % dearer than the western neighbours. This shows in the study of the Road and Motorway Directorate of the Czech Republic which... Read more>>

The five best buildings of 2007

The Bethlehem Chapel in Prague has experienced, on the evening of the eleventh of October, a celebration of the Czech building industry. Five buildings there were awarded the prize of The Building of 2007. T.Johánek Source: Development News Read more>>