Axion International Holdings, Inc., producer of the world’s strongest recycled, composite plastic industrial building products, announced that a paper entitled “World’s First Thermoplastic Railroad Bridges” will be presented on Aug. 31 at this year’s American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association (AREMA) conference in Orlando, Fla.

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In all, 28 projects, comprising six bridges and 22 buildings throughout North America, were named winners in the 2010 PCI Design Awards competition sponsored by the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute.

The University at Buffalo introduces a new, graduate-level course worth three credit hours called “Emerging Technologies in Bridge Engineering” (CIE-580).

Although URS Corporation will not be held liable for the I-35W bridge collapse, its insurance company will pay a settlement amount of $52.4 million.