Another award for Community Benefits Plan for the Gordie Howe International Bridge

The awards just keep on coming for the Gordie Howe International Bridge. The Communications and Stakeholder Relations team for Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority has won a Canadian Public Relations Society (CPRS) Award of Excellence for the project’s Community…

Gordie Howe International Bridge garners more industry award nominations

The Gordie Howe International Bridge project is up for two more prestigious industry. AECOM, a member of Bridging North America and responsible for the design of the bridge, Ports of Entry and Michigan Interchange, was nominated for Autodesk’s 2020 AEC…

Community Benefits Plan Supports New Southwest Detroit Park

Visitors to the new Fort Street Bridge Park in southwest Detroit can learn more about the area’s history, thanks to a sculpture funded by the Gordie Howe International Bridge Community Benefits Plan. Serving as a centerpiece for the park, the sculpture…

The West End Art Project Grand Reveal

Two popular Sandwich gathering spots are home to four new community art pieces thanks to funding by the Gordie Howe International Bridge Community Benefits Plan. The four installations were developed as part of Life After Fifty’s West End Art Project, which…

A Bridge to Equality

A century ago today, with the passing of the 19 th Amendment, women in the United States secured the right to vote. Each year, on August 26, that achievement is celebrated as Women’s Equality Day in the US. The Gordie Howe International Bridge project team…

Raising Crane

It’s a sign that construction is ramping up for the new Gordie Howe International Bridge. Two tower cranes and two smaller mobile crawler cranes now pierce the skyline along the Detroit River. There is one of each crane on the Canadian and US construction…

The Co-op Experience

Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority is pleased to provide valuable work experience and professional development opportunities to post-secondary students through WDBA’s co-op program. This term, 21 students have been hired from four post-secondary educational…

Another milestone in the Delivery of the Community Benefits Plan

Nine organizations serving Sandwich/west Windsor and Delray/Southwest Detroit are the benefactors of the first round of funding through the Community Organization Investment initiative – a component of the Gordie Howe International Bridge Community Benefits…

What is it? At the Core

Our What is it? series answers questions about some of the lesser known objects found on the construction site.