A month after his surprise win as Australia's prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull is reversing his predecessor's policy on transit funding with a $95-million commitment to a 7.3- kilometer light-rail extension in the Gold Coast area of Queensland, which will host the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
The first of many tunnel breakthroughs on the Saudi Arabian capital's new, six-line, 176-kilometer metro recently took place at the Salah Al-Din.A TBM dubbed San'ah completed 1.2 km of tunnel on Line 5 since setting off in late June.
A new report provides recommendations for specific actions the water sector and local governments can take to reduce water pollution and address climate change through improving stormwater controls.
Portland's troubled Morrison Bridge, which spans the Willamette River, will receive its third deck in four years after Multnomah County engineers settled on an open-grid steel deck with a 2.5-in. layer of lightweight concrete to replace a faulty polymer decking system.
A U.S. company working with the Central Japan Railway Co. envisions a magnetically levitated, or maglev, passenger route along the Northeast Corridor between Washington, D.C., and New York City that will reduce travel time to an hour.
Officials of both the buyer and seller are mum about the construction required to restore to full operation Exxon Mobil Corp.'s Torrance, Calif., oil refinery, which lost 80% of its capacity in a February 2015 explosion.
Using a free Web application from Steel Central LLC, structural-steel buyers and sellers can enter the electronic age of commerce and speed their transactions.
Rail officials have procured half the cost of a planned $8.1-billion tunneling project in Melbourne, Australia, but the 9-kilometer-long tunnel-boring plan, which is slated to begin in 2018, still faces political hurdles.
A recent study of 17 permanent modular construction projects found that, on average, schedules can be slashed 45% and costs cut 16% over onsite construction.
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