There is movement in Congress on a long-term Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization and a stopgap to keep the agency’s programs going for a few more months.
The failure of the world’s largest engineered slope a year ago at Charleston’s Yeager Airport has generated widespread speculation from the international engineering community because of the scale of construction and the numerous prizes for design the project had garnered, says Chrys Steiakakis, a geotechnical engineer at Geosysta Ltd., Attiki, Greece.
Chinese contractor Anhui Foreign Economic Construction has filed suit to challenge a directive by Namibia’s President Hage Geingob halting a $477-million airport upgrade the company was awarded in early December.
Confronting a spaghetti bowl of roads in and out of SeaTac International Airport, south of Seattle, owner Sound Transit opted for its first-ever turnkey design-build contract to better integrate civil, structural, station and system components of a new light-rail system extension that will serve the airport.
