Cable-stayed bridges may look similar to suspensions bridges—both have roadways that hang from cables and both have towers. But the two bridges support the load of the roadway in very different ways.

Arvid Grant, 93, a pioneer of modern concrete cable-stayed bridge engineering whose Columbia River span in Washington state was the longest such crossing in North America when it opened in 1978 and ...

Bridge engineer Arvid Grant may have been feeling poetic on Sept. 8, 1978. Grant was typing up a fact sheet about the unusual cable-stayed bridge he’d designed. The completed bridge soared between ...

Had you crossed the Francis Scott Key Bridge just a few weeks ago, as millions of motorists did before a wayward container ship struck it in the early hours of March 26, you’d have passed below a ...

New York State's longest bridge is in dire straits. “At times, you can see the river through the cracks in the pavement,” President Barack Obama said at a press conference in front of the Tappan Zee ...