Essay: Bridge Construction, Quo Vadis?

Examples of the new generation of bridges and winners of the German Bridge Building Prize 2012 and 2014: Gänsebachtal and Scherkondetal Bridges are two of the first large integral and semiintegral valley bridges in the Deutsche Bahn highspeed rail network.
On 14 August 2018, the Morandi Bridge in Genoa collapsed and 43 people fell to their deaths. With so many lives lost, this collapse is a frightful tragedy and of almost traumatic significance for structural engineers working in bridge construction. We do not know exactly what occurred, but we have many questions. How could that happen? What risks do structures...
Examples of the new generation of bridges and winners of the German Bridge Building Prize 2012 and 2014: Gänsebachtal and Scherkondetal Bridges are two of the first large integral and semiintegral valley bridges in the Deutsche Bahn highspeed rail network.