Photos Courtesy of South Florida Water Management District Restoring Kissimmee River to its natural meander corrects a 1960s Corps project. + Image Click image to enlarge. Related Links: NRC Fifth Everglades Quality Report Expected Court OK Will Launch $880-Million Everglades Work In its latest report, the National Research Council tempered its mild praise for "fairly modest progress" in the $13.5-billion Everglades restoration plan with its concerns over climate change, rising sea levels and the invasion of non-native plant and animal species.The fifth congressionally mandated biennial report on the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP), released on June 26 by a 14-member
+ Image Click Image to Enlarge + Image Click Image to Enlarge Related Links: Architecture 2030 NCARB AIA Contract Documents McGraw Hill Construction Market Research Architecture 2030—a group bent on catalyzing the buildings sector to phase out carbon emissions related to the built environment—is picking up steam. Last month, the group issued its "challenge" to building product manufacturers to produce environmentally benign building products by 2030.In 2006, Architecture 2030 unveiled a strategy to dramatically reduce global energy consumption and greenhouse-gas emissions through "low carbon" design. More recently, it released a road map to "zero emissions" for buildings—new construction and existing
The need to preserve the tent-like concrete roof of London's former Commonwealth Institute as the rest of the 52-year-old building was razed turned an adaptive-reuse project into a structural balancing act. With internal demolition temporarily undermining all but one roof support, the thin-shell, hyperbolic-paraboloid cover stands, thanks to an elaborate system of aids.Work on the future home of
Photo Courtesy of San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Two ancient landslides were discovered during excavation for the new Calaveras Dam, requiring an additional 3.5 million cu yd of excavation and adding significantly to the project's budget. Related Links: Water Pipeline Designed to Surf Seismic Waves Seismic Upgrade of San Francisco's Water System a Race Against Time Huge Gates Take 600-mile Trek to California Dam Site With a budget of $718 million, the Calaveras Dam Replacement dwarfs other projects in SFPUC's Water System Improvement Program. Located in the Sunol Valley southeast of Fremont, the project replaces the original dam, built in
Photo courtesy of Tampa Bay Water Design-builders overhauled the eight-year-old reservoir's embankment structure. Photo courtesy of Tampa Bay Water According to Tampa Bay Water, the reservoir continued to experience significant cracking, which had been a focus of a lengthy legal battle. Related Links: 'Robust' Rebuild Designed to Deliver Reservoir 2.0 Concerns Over Sinkholes Scuttle Tampa Bay's Reservoir Expansion Two years after a federal jury denied Tampa Bay Water (TBW) damages for cracks at its then-six-year-old, Lithia, Fla., reservoir, the regional water supplier is eyeing better days as a $129-million renovation nears completion.While Kiewit Infrastructure Group is targeting a November completion,
By any measure, San Francisco's effort to seismically upgrade its water supply is big. The $4.765-billion Water System Improvement Program (WSIP) includes 83 separate projects spread throughout the Bay Area and beyond.
Photo by Steve Barrett Photography/Courtesy of APTA FTA Deputy Administrator McMillan addresses APTA members in Montreal, citing potential major increases in transit funding as RTD's Washington (left) and FRA's Szabo look on. Related Links: P3 Bug Spreading Among U.S. Transit Builders Bridge Industry Conference Showcases Missouri Innovations Builders of both bridge and rail infrastructure are eyeing the next several weeks with a heightened sense of urgency—hoping against hope that Congress will manage to pass some version of President Obama's proposed $302-billion, four-year transportation reauthorization bill. At the same time, alternative delivery methods such as public-private partnerships are higher than ever
Related Links: Proposed Tolls On Existing Road Ignite Lawsuit In Virginia Virginia Takes Steps To Propel Two Transportation Projects A controversial plan to construct a tolled bypass to U.S. Route 460 in southeast Virginia could be in for additional hurdles as the state's transportation agency and inspector general investigate potential procurement violations for the $1.4-billion project.At issue is whether a proposed 55-mile limited-access toll highway between Suffolk and Petersburg was developed, contracted and invoiced in accordance with the Virginia Dept. of Transportation's procurement rules, as well as those of the state's Public-Private Transportation Act.The highway, intended to provide direct access
Photo Courtesy of Bill Wolfe/PEER A public advocacy group says streams connected to the Fenimore landfill were impaired prior to the reopening of the site. The state has scrapped solar-power plans and is looking for a new contractor. Related Links: After Prison, Former Contractor Disputes Case KIYC: Landfill owner Richard Bernardi served 3 years for bribery Allegations are flying as public acrimony mounts over a botched attempt to place a solar farm atop an abandoned landfill in New Jersey.At the center of the controversy is a New Jersey Dept. of Environmental Protection report that has not yet been made public.
Rendering Courtesy of NBBJ Amazon's "Rufus" headquarters project commands three city blocks in downtown Seattle and features three interconnected glass-and-steel domes. Related Links: Industry Catches a Ride on Seattle's Big Tech Wave Annual IT Report for Designers and Planners Projects Lower IT Spend After five years of slow or no growth across many construction sectors, the technology industry's demand for new building stands out. While most markets are only gradually digging their way toward recovery, office starts in many regions are taking off, thanks in part to tech firms seeking more space for operations such as administration and data storage.Much
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