“The Bay Area continues to grow both in terms of residential as well as industry, coupled with a spatial diversification of work locations and corporate headquarters,” Louis Armstrong says.
As the California High Speed Rail Authority executes multiple contracts for California’s $62.1-billion high-speed-rail line, crews are making headway on the initial 100 miles of track.
The new look of Nike’s Worldwide Headquarters continues to take visual shape, with Nike releasing more renderings of the planned upgrades to the campus new Beaverton, Oregon.
Seasonally-adjusted employment figures were kind to both Washington and Oregon, but construction employment continues to falter in Alaska and overall unemployment remains high.
Oregon’s busiest two-lane crossing has opened after four years of planning and construction that included building a new bridge and moving an old one for use as a detour.
The first engine has been installed in a new Siemens Charger locomotive, a key step in supplying the Washington State Dept. of Transportation with eight new Siemens Charger locomotives as part of a nearly $800 million Cascades High-Speed Rail federal grant to improve passenger rail.
The total feet mined by Bertha, the world’s largest diameter tunnel-boring machine currently moving under downtown Seattle, hasn’t been impressive in the last few weeks simply for distance, but the fact that Bertha continues adding to its mining total is a feat worth noting.
The size of the Sound Transit tunnel-boring machine Pamela—at 21 ft in diameter—doesn’t compare to the world’s largest TBM, Bertha, at 57 ft in diameter, tunneling in the same city.
RSS
