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After an early morning structural collapse of the 447-ft-long, three-span steel K-frame structure sent a bus and several passenger cars plummeting approximately 100 ft into a ravine below and injuring 10 people, Fern Hollow was suddenly in the national spotlight—both as a source of relief that a more serious tragedy had been averted and as a symbol of the nation’s deteriorating transportation infrastructure.

Long before the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic emerged, the project team on the Children’s Hospital of Richmond faced a daunting goal: design and construct a 600,000-sq-ft acute care hospital on an urban campus in about four years.

New York State Bridge Authority and Office of Mental Health representatives gathered state lawmakers, local emergency response teams and community leaders for a suicide prevention summit last month to raise awareness, discuss better collaboration and review suicide prevention and emergency mental health response practices around the state’s vehicular and pedestrian bridges, parks and other public spaces.

Removal of the Inner Loop North is expected to be done in 2027.

Design firm owner, ahead of her time in promoting wider use of new techniques and technologies and more recognition of women professionals, died on Oct. 1 in Branford, Conn.

The team was tested while designing and installing a pair of massive steel trusses on the Frank J. Guarini Justice Complex in Jersey City, N.J.

The joint venture with consultants Moffat & Nichol and Volkert will provide project and program management services.

Offshore wind’s dual tendency to highlight critical needs and shatter expectations has shown itself more than once. Like our other infrastructure, it needs large-scale, long-term investments in which both public and private sectors play a role.

Major programs include $1B Sawtooth Bridges Replacement in New Jersey, needed to support Gateway mega-program to add rail tunnels under the Hudson River. 

Energy and resilience megaprojects starting and planned in New York and New Jersey pose big logistical challenges but will generate economic and quality of life benefits, said public and private industry experts at Sept. 15 ENR forum in New York City.