The public comment period on a proposed plan to move radioactive capsules to a new storage location area within the Hanford Nuclear Waste Site in southeast Washington is coming to a close.
As researchers at Seattle’s University of Washington study nano-engineered systems, the new Nanoengineering and Sciences Building took on a design specifically for the discipline that deals with energy, materials science, computation and medicine.
Designing and building California’s $500-million Lake Oroville Spillways Emergency Recovery Project in just nine months—a job that typically would take 10 years—required an army of engineers and workers.
Due to geologic hurdles, the Calaveras Dam project in northern California grew to an $810-million budget and an eight-year schedule from a planned $416-million budget and four-year schedule.
The Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement Tunnel was originally slated to open in December 2015, but faced years of delays when the tunnel-boring machine malfunctioned beneath downtown Seattle.