: a horizontal main structural member (as in a building or bridge) that supports vertical loads and that consists of a single piece or of more than one piece bound together
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Peña Boulevard leaving the airport will also be closed once an hour between Jackson Gap Street between 11 p.m. Thursday and 6 a.m. Friday so crews can transport and set bridge girders on E-470.
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Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 28 May 2024
Last week, the final girder was installed on the crossing, completing the foundation and marking a construction milestone.
—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2024
Transportation officials shut down the section of U.S. 50 between Montrose and Gunnison in mid-April after discovering one of the bridge’s steel girders had a 3- to 4-inch crack.
—Lauren Penington, The Denver Post, 22 May 2024
With the salvage operation now underway in the Patapsco, Bell says the girders and beams from the Key Bridge are destined to be recycled.
—Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 2 Apr. 2024
Built largely from intersecting beams of laminated timber and slim steel girders, the structure stands like scaffolding among native fruit trees, a bare framework of joists and crossbeams supporting the boxes of steel and wood that contain the home’s rooms.
—Michael Snyder Ana Topoleanu, New York Times, 10 May 2024
But two of the three major girders holding up one section of the bridge had snapped, and the third girder was cracking.
—David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2024
Pieces of the bridge still blocked off the Patapsco River, and partially submerged girders still flanked the huge container ship that smashed into the bridge on Tuesday.
—Scott Neuman, NPR, 31 Mar. 2024
They were cut from girders and other bits that were swapped out of the Eiffel Tower during renovations and stored for safekeeping, according to Joachim Roncin, head of design at the Paris Games organizing committee.
—John Leicester, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2024
Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 28 May 2024
Last week, the final girder was installed on the crossing, completing the foundation and marking a construction milestone.
—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2024
Transportation officials shut down the section of U.S. 50 between Montrose and Gunnison in mid-April after discovering one of the bridge’s steel girders had a 3- to 4-inch crack.
—Lauren Penington, The Denver Post, 22 May 2024
With the salvage operation now underway in the Patapsco, Bell says the girders and beams from the Key Bridge are destined to be recycled.
—Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 2 Apr. 2024
Built largely from intersecting beams of laminated timber and slim steel girders, the structure stands like scaffolding among native fruit trees, a bare framework of joists and crossbeams supporting the boxes of steel and wood that contain the home’s rooms.
—Michael Snyder Ana Topoleanu, New York Times, 10 May 2024
But two of the three major girders holding up one section of the bridge had snapped, and the third girder was cracking.
—David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2024
Pieces of the bridge still blocked off the Patapsco River, and partially submerged girders still flanked the huge container ship that smashed into the bridge on Tuesday.
—Scott Neuman, NPR, 31 Mar. 2024
They were cut from girders and other bits that were swapped out of the Eiffel Tower during renovations and stored for safekeeping, according to Joachim Roncin, head of design at the Paris Games organizing committee.
—John Leicester, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2024
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girder
noun
gird·er
ˈgərd-ər 
: a horizontal main supporting beam
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