The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) has reached an agreement with Kiewit Corp. and will pay the contractor $297.8 million for project change orders on the Interstate 405-Sepulveda Pass Widening Project, in Los Angeles.
Enormous budget problems at the Dept. of Veterans Affairs replacement hospital in Aurora, Colo., are “primarily the result of poor business decisions, inexperience with the type of contract used and mismanagement by VA senior leaders.”
Originally scheduled for completion late this year, the new 4,300-ft-long Midtown Tunnel between Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va., is now on track for completion by the end of the summer.
In a key executive move, Omaha contracting giant Kiewit has elevated Richard A. “Rick” Lanoha to president and chief operating officer, effective on March 31.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) announced January 26 that along with its contractor, Kiewit Co., it began work on the next milestone at the Folsom Dam auxiliary spillway project in Folsom, CA.
Don’t let the elegance of the $135-million, 1,720-ft cable-stayed Tilikum Crossing bridge in Portland distract you from the ingenuity that occurred before construction even started, in 2011, on Portland’s first bridge over the Willamette River since 1973.
Fast Fix 8, the $62-million project to replace eight Interstate 40 bridges in Nashville during weekend highway shutdowns, finished on Dec. 4, seven months early, which the state credits in part to its first use of construction manager-general contractor project delivery.
