The Center for Innovative Bridge Engineering
at the University of Delaware

Our nation's bridge infrastructure is aging and deteriorating. Close to 30 percent of America's 600,000 public bridges are either structurally deficient or functionally obsolete, with the cost of rehabilitation or replacement estimated at close to $150 billion.

The Center for Innovative Bridge Engineering serves as a resource for highway and railroad bridge owners in the United States and worldwide, providing knowledge and people to address problems in the design, construction, evaluation, maintenance, and rehabilitation of bridges and related structures.

The Center adds to the knowledge base needed to maintain and renew bridge infrastructure through academic and applied multidisciplinary research conducted by affiliated faculty and sponsored by government and industrial partners.

This new knowledge, along with existing knowledge in the field of bridge engineering, is disseminated through the Center's programs, publications, seminars, annual workshops, and conferences to bridge owners and their engineers.

Perhaps most importantly, people—in the form of graduating students, faculty, and research associates—are available to bridge owners, both as in-house personnel and as consulting engineers. Those who have studied and worked at the Center can apply state-of-the-art knowledge to solve the growing problem of bridge maintenance and renewal around the world.

For additional information, see our fact sheet.

Center for Innovative Bridge Engineering
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware 19716

Director: Dennis Mertz, Ph.D., P.E.
Phone: 302-831-2735
Fax: 302-831-3640
mertz@udel.edu