NR Editors Aileen Cho and Jeff Yoders talk to the McCarthy project manager on how a team dealt with nearly zero-vision conditions to remove old concrete and steel—with the help of a robot vessel named Little Dude.
More than a decade after the Port of Beaumont’s Main Street Terminal 1 collapsed due to corrosion of steel support piles, construction crews and engineers are undertaking a rebuild and expansion of the Texas site using more resilient materials and the latest technology.