The film and construction industries have a common production model. Both work on projects that have an overall vision from the owner (or executive producer) and onboard highly experienced contractors to complete a difficult project in a short amount of time.
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Los Angeles, announced a partnership with the Los Angeles design firm AECOM for help constructing a five-mile prototype track to test the principle of the hyperloop: a transit system that shoots passenger-filled capsules at hundreds of miles an hour over long distances through low-pressure tubes.
Officials recently approved the construction of a $1.7-billion, 65,000-seat stadium in Carson City, Calif., a Los Angeles County city that could be the future home of the Chargers and the Raiders, two National Football League teams now based in San Deigo and Oakland, Calif., respectively.
When a buried oil pipeline at a station on the Trans Alaska Pipeline System sprung a leak, the pipeline company faced a costly problem: Scrap the piping below ground and rebuild above ground or find technology that could inspect the original line.
Courtesy Remix Remix is an app that delivers forward-looking public transportation bus routes. This detailed look at a possible plan for Oakland, Calif., includes total cost, number of buses and separate bus lines. What began as a hackathon program that allowed users to design their own fantasy bus routes recently grew into a real-world, transit-planning application called Remix. The users are now mostly departments-of-transportation workers, and the lines they're designing are helping save time and money on real transit routes."We have been using Remix to help us develop maps that show proposed routes and service scenarios," says Vanessa Rauschenberger, director of
During the Bluebeam eXtreme user conference in Los Angeles, July 29- 31, amid announcements and presentations, two construction workers talked about the future of construction drawings.
Photo Courtesy David Knudsen, legislative affairs, CalTrans A California bridge received $2 million in emergency federal funding. The Federal Highway Administration provided $2 million in emergency-relief funds to repair a California bridge that partially collapsed after the foundation washed away under an abutment.A heavy rainfall on July 19 washed away the abutment at the eastern end of the Tex Wash Bridge near Desert Center, Calif., which carries eastbound traffic on Interstate 10, the main link from Southern California to Arizona. The westbound bridge also was damaged but still standing, and traffic flowed over it in both directions after foundation repairs.The
Photo Courtesy Icon Architectural Group Construction of a Grand Forks, N.D.-based UAS airport and testing facility, called Grand Sky Development Park, includes hangers for drones of all sizes, from fixed wing to octocopters. Related Links: Grand Sky Development Park Commercial Drone Operators Take Flight for Construction Construction of site improvements, including security fencing, access roads and culverts for a $25-million, 217-acre unmanned aerial-systems park, began in Grand Forks, N.D., in July. But even before the first phase broke ground, the developer started pushing drone-related research by partnering with the developers of an airtraffic-control system for drones.The facility, called Grand Sky