Articles Tagged with ''urban development''

Hanoi advances its most complex metro build yet, marking a milestone for the city’s growing rail network

UK firms will provide multi-disciplinary services to Hong Kong government for two key projects under a new project management office 

City manages record growth and steers development while keeping an eye on quality of life.

Considering that Richard “Dick” McLane “fell into engineering,” it seems appropriate that he ends up digging deeply into a project both literally and figuratively.

Tunneling through an urban environment like that of Los Angeles is complex enough. Add to that a medley of poor soils (including tar pits); a variety of dangerous gases; and two seismic faults and it becomes a task that until not so long ago was impossible.

This facility for a growing city west of Phoenix includes a 3.5-acre fishing and irrigation lake, 21 acres of sports turf and other recreational features.

The memorial contains more than 1,500 commemorative columns that represent the sailors and Marines killed Dec. 7, 1941, on the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The Park Point Landscape project transformed four acres of flat Silicon Valley land into a lush environment of rolling hills topped with native plants and grasses. 

As Amazon’s decision to split its second headquarters between New York City and metropolitan Washington, D.C., draws plaudits and criticism regarding incentives used to lure the e-commerce giant, contractors are weighing the impacts of major new construction programs in what are already the nation’s top two construction markets.