In September, the American Concrete Institute plans to publish a guide to help engineers meet the requirements of ACI's first model code for the repair of existing structural-concrete buildings.
Visitacion Development LLC is planning to build a mixed-use development on a site at the intersection of Bayshore Boulevard and Leland Avenue in San Francisco.
Few construction professionals are more familiar with today's infrastructure crisis than the staffers of the country's various departments of public works-and few are more misunderstood. Unlike larger public owners that shepherd attention-grabbing mega-projects, DPW officials are routinely labeled as wrench-turning, snow-removing, garbage-collecting civic servants charged with small-potatoes projects not worthy of national interest.DPWs are frequently stereotyped as managers of the nation's "roads and commodes, with the big yellow trucks for pushing snow," says Kurt Blomquist, public-works director for Keene, N.H., and a member of the American Public Works Association.ENR's "Low & Slow Across America's Infrastructure" road trip visited with dozens
State and tribal officials in Colorado and New Mexico have reopened the Animas and San Juan rivers since an accidental 3-million-gal toxic spill from an abandoned mine on Aug. 5.
Boskalis After an $8-billion investment and 12 months of construction, Egypt completed the expansion of the Suez Canal, which opened to traffic in early August. Related Links: Egypt Launcehs Suez Canal Expansion Project The Egyptian government and the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) on August 6 inaugurated the newly expanded Suez Canal, part of an overall $8 billion investment designed to increase ship traffic through the international waterway and also encourage new investment in Egypt. The government is hoping to attract new industries and infrastructure to the canal area to a degree that it would create a new international trade entrepot. Egyptian
Courtesy Fukushima FORWARD Submersible foundation for 7-MW offshore turbine was towed to site earlier this year. Related Links: Offshore Wind-Power Prototype Advancing at Fukushima Japan's Government Takes Over the Fukushima Cleanup Weeks before Japan restarted the first nuclear reactor of the 48 that were shut down following the 2011 Fukushima disaster, a Marubeni Corp.-led consortium installed what it touts as, to date, the world’s largest offshore wind turbine. The 7-MW component is for a 14-MW wind farm under construction in the Onahama Port test area of Fukushima.The turbine stands 105 meters from sea level to the rotor center and 188.5
Courtesy of SOM / SOM | AtChain Near Cairo, the 35-acre campus will contain 9 million sq ft. Construction is scheduled to begin by the end of the year on the 9-million-sq-ft campus of Egypt's National Cancer Institute. When the campus is finished, NCI, already the largest comprehensive cancer center in the Middle East, Europe and Africa, will be able to serve 1.7 million patients each year.The campus, located on a 35-acre site in Giza’s Sheik Zayed City, also will be an international center for cancer research and education. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP is the architect and master planner;
Lerner and Associates Planned 60-acre urban park in commercial center would channel traffic into underground tunnel. An average of 750,000 vehicles drive every day on Israel's most heavily used freeway. Tel Aviv city officials have given initial approval to an estimated $500-million plan to add a 60-acre roof park over the central segment of the Ayalon Freeway, the busiest transportation artery and densest infrastructure corridor in Israel.The plan calls for covering a 2-kilometer-long by 100-meter-wide section with a grassy roof, with traffic flowing through a tunnel underneath.While a freeway roof has long been eyed by city officials, last month's approval
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player World Bank Related Links: World Bank release World Bank fact sheet on project World Bank project appraisal (127 pp.) The World Bank has agreed to provide $700 million in loan guarantees to help finance a major natural-gas project in Ghana.The bank said its board’s July 30 approval of the guarantees, which it says is a record amount for such aid, will spur billions of dollars in additional investment for the Sankofa natural-gas project and lead to final contracts.The World Bank also said its financial aid should stimulate substantial private spending for the project, which is
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