Meeting delays and lack of funding jeopardize $4.1 billion Ohio River Bridges Project and surrounding area building developments.

Structural engineers from the University of Sheffield in the UK say design theories originating with 17th century Dutch engineer Christiaan Huygens may need to be revisited.

"Anne Kiremidjian, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford, says that it could take Haiti 10 years to recover from the earthquake that devastated the island nation on Jan. 12, 2010. Kiremidjian compared the energy from the temblor to that of a nuclear blast."

A handful of designers see this icon ready for a bold new life.

By way of a $229.5 million construction deal awarded to contractors last week, the Mississippi River is set to get its first new bridge in more than four decades. The viaduct will create a new-fangled connection between Illinois and Missouri, and improved connections to and through St. Louis.