Construction is under way on Maine’s seventh — largest — high-tech bridge, replacing standard concrete and steel construction with a lightweight and portable carbon-fiber tube structure. The new ...

The University of Maine’s Bridge-in-a-Backpack spinoff company has signed a North American marketing and distribution agreement with an international construction and engineering firm that intends to ...

The "bridge in a backpack," a composites bridge developed by the University of Maine, received a key approval from a national transportation nonprofit that could advance efforts to expand its ...

CROSSING THE STREET. IT IS MORE KIDS. GET BACK TO SCHOOL. THERE’S A NEW ORLEANS WOMAN WHO IS PARTNERING WITH THE NOPD TO GIVE AWAY MORE THAN 200 BACKPACKS. JARRAH. CAMRYN IS HOSTING A FAMILY MOVIE ...

In Maine, contractors are “blowing up” bridges: They are inflating hollow carbon-fiber tubes on-site, bending them into arches and infusing them with resin. Filled with concrete, the bridges are ready ...

MONTPELIER – Last month, construction crews placed a series of hollow tubes over the Wanzer Brook in Fairfield as part of a Vermont Transportation Agency program that uses new technology to cut ...

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McGee Bridge in Maine has integrated "Bridge in a Backpack" technology that utilizes carbon fiber tubes. Construction is under way on the Maine’s seventh — largest — high-tech bridge, replacing ...