With the five-year highway-transit FAST Act in place, the main congressional infrastructure issue for early 2016 is a bill to reauthorize Federal Aviation Administration programs for the next several years.
The $154-million first phase of the Northern Rail Extension in Alaska is the initial step in a multi-year effort to connect the towns of Fairbanks and Delta and the Fort Wainwright and Eielson Air Force Base military sites with Fort Greeley.
Officials in Williston, N.D., are pressing ahead with plans for a new $254-million airport to replace Sloulin International Airport, which experienced a tenfold increase in traffic between 2008 and 2014, partially due to the oil-shale boom in the region.
Due to the size and complexity of its $900-million South Runway expansion project at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, project owner Broward County Aviation Dept. divided the massive redo into two separate, but still complex, contracts.
This ambitious project replaced Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport’s original 5,300-ft runway by expanding and elevating it to an 8,000-ft-long, 150-ft-wide structure that extends over the existing airport perimeter road, Florida East Coast Railway and U.S. Highway 1.