Rio’s Negro Bridge, $400-Million Economic Link, Opens in Amazon Basin
Brazil’s Manaus-Iranduba Bridge, scheduled for completion by year’s end, will straddle the river close to where the waterway merges with the Amazon River.

Rock-Fiber Rebar Gets First Big Test
Researchers in Northern Ireland report promising results from a demonstration project that used rods made with basalt fibers to reinforce a 22-meter-long concrete-deck section of a $1.5-million replacement bridge in County Fermanagh.

Global Engineers Push To Manage Innovation

Surge Busters Delivering in New Orleans
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ $14.6-billion drive to bring New Orleans’ hurricane defenses to 100-year levels of protection by June 2011 could fundamentally change the way U.S. civil-works projects are funded and delivered, project leaders say.

In U.K., Offshore Wind Power’s Rising Tide Tempered by Wave of Rising Costs
More than any other European nation, the U.K. is pinning its hopes for a low-carbon-electricity future on offshore wind power.