Puerto Rico’s major water and sewer agency will carry out $1.5 billion in infrastructure improvements under a new settlement with the U.S. Dept. of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Two developers, one for a planned 12-story building in Portland, Ore., and the other for a planned 10-story building in Manhattan, are winners of a competition designed to support construction of tall mass timber structures in the U.S. The winners will split $3 million in funding.
On Aug. 22, the Herrenknect tunnel-boring machine completed its work, excavating the 3.3- kilometer-long underwater section of the Eurasia Tunnel in Istanbul.
The U.S. Energy Dept. is continuing to spend billions of dollars on carbon capture and storage technology, announcing this month it will distribute about $25 million to eight projects aimed at reducing the cost of carbon dioxide capture.
Fremont will be the first U.S. skyscraper to use all elevators for evacuation. In a U.S. first, a high-rise, when completed by the end of next year, will contain an elevator system that operates during fires to evacuate occupants.
The Dept. of Veterans Affairs construction program has been hit with more criticism, this time from the Army Corps of Engineers, which says “a transformative change” is needed in how VA manages building major new hospitals.
Related Links: FHWA-AASHTO task force report Court Judgment, Tests Fail To Quell Guardrail Controversy (enr.com 6/15/2015) [subscription] A new study of accidents involving highway guardrails has found shortcomings in several different manufacturers’ W-beam end caps in certain types of crashes. The report, from a Federal Highway Administration and American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials task force, also calls for fully implementing AASHTO’s 2009 Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware (MASH) guidelines for crash-testing new installations of guardrail terminals. But the report doesn’t recommend new crash tests for existing guardrail equipment under an older set of criteria, contained in National Cooperative
Using a novel vertical production line, builders of a futuristic U.K. observation tower recently completed the 162-m-tall steel mast around which a sleek doughnut-shaped pod will rise and fall.
The construction consortium charged with expanding Rio de Janeiro/Galeão–Antonio Carlos Jobim International Airport says it is on schedule to finish on May 1 of next year, in time for the August kickoff of the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics.
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