One of my favorite activities is gathering friends together for a group DIY project. Building something from scratch can be an enormously rewarding experience. But building something with friends is ...

An engineer's masterful grasp of physics, the properties and availability of various building materials, and construction techniques have made it possible to build modern bridges that carry heavier ...

As the County Fire tore through Northern California this summer well on its way to burning 90,000 acres in Napa and Yolo counties, Harley Ramirez got a call. The 132nd Multirole Bridge Company of the ...

WINONA — Bob Vila never faced a do-it-yourself project like this. WIth the opening of the new Minnesota Highway 43 bridge in Winona today, the old bridge, built in 1942, will undergo a major ...

Make sure the piers are leveled so no wedging is necessary, to make the stone bridge as stable as possible. You stone bridge will be higher than the path leading to it. Build the path up with tamped ...

Q. I was traveling on a fall foliage road trip in southwest New Hampshire and saw a gorgeous double-arch bridge. The historical marker sign said that no mortar was used in the construction. It was so ...