In Maine, contractors are “blowing up” bridges: They are inflating hollow carbon-fiber tubes on-site, bending them into arches and infusing them with resin. Filled with concrete, the bridges are ready ...

Construction is under way on Maine’s seventh — largest — high-tech bridge, replacing standard concrete and steel construction with a lightweight and portable carbon-fiber tube structure. The new ...

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ORONO, Maine — The “Bridge-in-a-Backpack” technology developed at the University of Maine and licensed to an Orono startup company has received a key approval that could speed its commercial adoption.

PITTSFIELD, Maine -- The latest in bridge-construction technology goes unnoticed by drivers zipping over a two-lane highway that carves through the countryside of central Maine. The 35-foot-long Neal ...

Four years after the first lightweight bridge-in-a-backpack, or BIAB, composite bridge was erected in Pittsfield, Maine, the technology is gaining traction in the U.S. and abroad, despite some ...

Constructing the bridge is a relatively simple process, according to AIT. First the arches are shaped to the required geometry and composite layers are infused with resin. A new bridge in Belfast, ...