Etiket: bridge
An artist residency to bridge the gap with Mexico
Artist and gallery owner Éric Carlos Bertrand, director of Cache Studio, in South-Central Montreal, is organizing a first residency for Canadian artists in Mexico in May. In a year, five…
Prison for a former SNC-Lavalin executive convicted in the Jacques-Cartier Bridge affair
Normand Morin, former vice-president at SNC-Lavalin, was sentenced to a total of 42 months in prison for his role in a bribery scheme aimed at obtaining contracts to repair the…
AtkinsRéalis wins a contract for the new Île d’Orléans bridge
(Montreal) AtkinsRéalis announces that it has won a contract as part of the construction project for the new bridge linking Île d’Orléans to Quebec City. Posted at 11:58 a.m. The…
The Press in Maryland | The star governor and his bridge
(Baltimore) Wes Moore arrives with the confident step of a general returning to headquarters to prepare for the next operation. The ex-soldier’s gaze is intense. His biceps overflow from a…
Why will the Île d’Orléans bridge cost so much? A government engineer speaks out
While the Quebec government recognizes that the price of $2.75 billion for the replacement of the Île d’Orléans bridge “may make you jump,” one of its engineers points out that…
$2.75 billion for the new Île d’Orléans bridge: “It’s a high cost,” admits Guilbault
Almost $3 billionthe cost of replacing the Île d’Orléans bridge “is high” and “can startle”, recognizes the Minister of Transport, but resuming the call for tenders process would have delayed…
The new Île d’Orléans bridge will cost $1.8 billion
The 7,500 islanders of Île d’Orléans will have a new bridge by 2028 – and its total bill will be close to three billion dollars, or seven times the estimate…
Île d’Orléans Bridge | “It’s a figure that can make you jump”
Sorry, your browser does not support videos (Saint-Pierre-de l’Île-d’Orléans) The Legault government admits that the bill of 2.7 billion for the new Île d’Orléans bridge “may cause surprise”, but judges…
The new Île d’Orléans bridge will cost $2.75 billion
Expected for twenty years, the new Île d’Orléans bridge will cost more than 2.75 billion to build. The bill is so high that the Legault government hesitated to move forward.…
Collapsed bridge in Baltimore | Body of missing worker found
(Mexico City) The body of a Mexican worker who disappeared after the collapse of a bridge hit by a ship on March 26 in Baltimore, in the eastern United States,…
Pro-Palestine protest blocks Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco
The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco’s iconic bridge, was blocked by pro-Palestinian demonstrators for several hours on Monday, as part of a global action to protest Israel’s war in Gaza.…
2.7 billion for the new Île d’Orléans bridge
(Quebec) The Legault government must announce Tuesday morning that it has chosen the consortium in charge of building the new Île d’Orléans bridge. Like many construction projects in Quebec in…
FBI investigates Baltimore bridge collapse
The FBI has opened an investigation following the collapse of a bridge at the end of March in Baltimore, in the eastern United States, hit by a container ship, according…
FBI investigates Baltimore bridge collapse
Sorry, your browser does not support videos (Washington) The FBI has opened an investigation following the collapse of a bridge at the end of March in Baltimore, in the eastern…
The dismantling of the Champlain Bridge more expensive due to the pandemic
Traces of the old Champlain Bridge which spanned the St. Lawrence River for several decades, between Brossard and Montreal, have now disappeared from the Montreal landscape. The dismantling of the…
President Joe Biden vows to quickly rebuild Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge
US President Joe Biden promised Friday to “move heaven and earth” to rebuild the bridge which collapsed at the end of March in Baltimore like a house of cards, killing…
In Baltimore, Joe Biden promises to rebuild the bridge quickly
(Baltimore) US President Joe Biden promised Friday to “move heaven and earth” to rebuild the bridge which collapsed at the end of March in Baltimore like a house of cards,…
Collapsed bridge in Baltimore | A first navigation corridor planned through the rubble
(Baltimore) The authorities of the port of Baltimore announced Monday that they were working to create a temporary navigation corridor by clearing part of the rubble from the bridge which…
Removal of collapsed Baltimore bridge begins
Clearing the bridge and freeing the container ship, named Dali, are a priority for the authorities, while maritime transport is at a standstill in this port, one of the busiest…
Bridge collapse in Baltimore | Clearing operations have begun
(Baltimore) The difficult operations to clear the immense collapsed Baltimore bridge have begun, with a first piece of the structure having been cut out and moved, the US Coast Guard…