The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority is hiring a construction manager to administer the long-delayed $2.3 billion Green Line Extension project, according to an MBTA press release.
Nearly 250 of the region’s top construction professionals attended ENR MidAtlantic’s Best Regional Project Awards on Nov. 1 at the Sheraton Inner Harbor in downtown Baltimore.
With the new All Electronic Tolling, or AET, system on the Massachusetts Turnpike going live tonight, demolition work to tear down 23 toll booths on the Turnpike begins this Sunday, according to MassDOT.
Two workers employed by a drain-cleaning contractor were trapped and drowned on Oct. 21, when a punctured main sent water flooding into a 12-ft-deep trench where they were working, according to the Boston Fire Dept.
Despite a fire on Pittsburgh’s Liberty Bridge last month, contractor Joseph B. Fay Co. missed by only four days a milestone to open the bridge’s fourth lane to traffic.
An elementary school with a 500-gallon saltwater fish tank modified from a Hurricane Sandy-salvaged bus is just one example of the creativity displayed in the winning entries in this year’s ENR MidAtlantic Best Projects competition.
Facade elements such as the unique corten steel exoskeleton give the Atlantic Plumbing redevelopment a clean and modern architectural style with a raw, industrial vibe.
The Flight 93 National Memorial near Shanksville, Pa., which opened 14 years after passengers and crew thwarted a terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 11, 2001, features a black granite walkway that traces the flight path.