Bridge Engineering - write for us!

Bridge Engineering is a leading peer‑reviewed journal dedicated to advancing innovation and knowledge across all areas of bridge engineering.

The journal covers the design, assessment, construction, maintenance, and management of bridges of all types, as well as structural health monitoring and upgrading strategies. A strong emphasis is placed on sustainability, resilience, and performance under natural and man‑made hazards.

We welcome a wide range of contributions, including original research papers, state‑of‑the‑art reviews, innovative construction methods and systems, project‑based case studies, historical perspectives, expert commentaries, and viewpoints.

Award-winning papers

Each year, the paper rated best by the Editorial Panel is given the ICE's John Henry Garrood King medal. We celebrate the best work published in our journals at the ICE Publishing Awards and make them free for you to read. In 2026 Bridge Engineering was awarded two prizes!

John Henry Garrood King medal

- Investigation into soil ratcheting behind integral bridges using centrifuge modelling

Bill Curtin (Research and real world impact/Innovation) medal 2026

- Monitoring of the Queensferry Crossing, Scotland

We award authors who have produced work judged by their peers to be of exceptional quality and benefit to the civil engineering, construction, and materials science community. Each paper is free to view for one year as part of our commitment to furthering knowledge and best practice. 

Our Editor in Chief Stergios Mitoulis has also selected these standout articles published in 2025 that exemplify the high standards of our journal:

1. Development of a schema for the remote inspection of bridges
2. Super-long-span bridges: wind-resistant design developments and open issues 

Special Issues

In recent years BREN has published some timely and topical Special Issues.

• Smart bridges
• Sustainability, decarbonisation, and resilience-based design
• Integral bridges
• Managing and preserving historic bridges and structures
• Bridges and network transport resilience
• Structural health monitoring for intelligent asset management
• Major bridge replacement projects in North America
• Bridges for sea crossings
• Deterioration and structural performance of ageing concrete bridges

We welcome authors from academia and industry to write for Bridge Engineering. 

If you would like to discuss submitting to us, and your potential contribution, please get in touch with the Commissioning Editor, Rebecca Rivers ([email protected])

For more information about the ICE journals please see here.