World-renowned bridge engineer Jacques Combault, technical director of Finley Engineering Group, was recently inducted into the National Order of the Legion of Honour, the highest decoration in France, Finley said.

Friday, May 14, Friends of the Chicago River will hold a 90th birthday party for the Michigan Avenue Bridge, "the great double-leaf, double-deck trunnion bascule bridge that provides an essential link between the Loop and the North Michigan Avenue shopping district," Chicago Tribune’s Blair Kamin said.

From The Detroit News: Gov. Jennifer Granholm has announced that Canadian officials have offered to lend $550 million to Michigan to help build its portion of a new international bridge.

“The agency financing construction of the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge may sell as much as $4 billion of bonds this year to take advantage of federal debt subsidies before they’re scaled back or expire,” writes reporter William Selway.

From structural health monitoring (SHM) to intelligent transportation systems (ITS), intelligent infrastructure is beginning the slow move from purely academic research to practical application. Technology abounds, but engineers and owners are still learning how to make sense of the data overload.