Trade Journals for the Concrete Industry

According to the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), in the three years between 2000 and 2003, roughly 27 percent of the country's 590,750 bridges were rated "structurally deficient or functionally obsolete," representing one out of every three bridges in urban centers, and one of every four bridges located in rural areas. This fact became frightfully obvious with the collapse of the I-35 Bridge over the Missi - ssippi River in Minnesota in 2007. Since then, engineers have been working toward developing innovative and cost effective methods for accelerated bridge replacement. One of those innovations is the NEXT Beam developed by the Northeast Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCINE).