Photo Courtesy of Denver RTD The new hotel and transit station project at DIA may be well over its initial budget. Related Links: Denver Airport Sues City's Transit Agency Over Disputed Project Costs DIA Launches South Terminal Redevelopment Program Denver International Airport officials insist the project to build a hotel and transit center connected to the airport terminal remains on track at an adjusted budget of $544 million, despite recent reports the job may have ballooned as much as 34% over initial costs.The centerpiece of the project is a 500-room, 14-story Westin hotel that is going up at the terminal's
Photo by Jeff Rubenstone/ENR Several barges at the Tappan Zee Bridge project site have come unmoored recently. Related Links: Perfectly Aligned Political Will Pushed New NY Bridge Process New York State Secures $1.6-Billion DOT Loan for Tappan Zee Bridge Replacement The New York State Thruway Authority said on March 31 that it will withhold up to $1 million per month in progress payments to Tappan Zee Constructors LLC due to repeated incidents of construction barges at the site of the new Tappan Zee Bridge coming unmoored and drifting down the Hudson River. The most recent incident took place on March
Photo Courtesy of Illinois Tollway A $12-billion, 15-year construction program aims to ramp up economic development in the regions around O'Hare airport. Related Links: Illinois Highway Builders Keep Massive Job On Track Success of Illinois Extension Overcomes Difficult Past In a video shot by the Illinois Road and Transportation Builders Association, a construction worker named Robert Hall gives a testimonial for IRTBA: "It gives us a lot of work, especially when our economy was bad," the Geneva Construction Co. employee says. "IRTBA allowed us to go get more work … gave us an opportunity to keep on rolling when the
Related Links: N.J. Bill Would Replace 3 PANYNJ Officials With 'Public Interest' Members Public-Private Partnerships Will Be Key in Bridge, Airport Projects: Port Authority Chief Port Authority of New York & New Jersey Chairman David Samson has resigned in the wake of a report that partly blames the agency's handling of the George Washington Bridge traffic scandal that has come to be known as "Bridgegate."New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) announced the resignation at a March 28 press briefing that focused on the results of a $1-million, governor-sponsored report on the scandal. The nearly 350-page report exonerates the governor of
Photo Courtesy of City of Philadelphia Controller's Office Puddles on Taxiway S at Philadelphia International Airport show signs of rutted asphalt. Related Links: Boston First To Use Warm-Mix Asphalt on U.S. Runway Branson, Mo., Runway Collapse Triggers Lawsuit The Philadelphia city controller is at odds with a local contractor and the city's Division of Aviation over a 2009 taxiway repaving project at the Philadelphia International Airport.During an October 2011 closeout walk-through at the airport, the controller's office determined Taxiway S, which had been repaved two years earlier, was rutting. The controller claims the contractor, A.P. Construction, Philadelphia, did not use
Related Links: Cold War Cleanup DOE Looking at Cost, Schedule Problems at S.C. Nuclear Site The Dept. of Energy's $7.7-billion Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., isn't dead yet. But the Obama administration's March budget request to put the unfinished plutonium disposal facility into "cold standby" could sound the troubled project's death knell.The lack of an official cost and schedule estimate, lax oversight by the project owner and suspected unforeseen design challenges sent construction costs soaring, according to a recent report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Long-term operational costs have more than
Related Links: DOE Conditionally Approves $7.7B Oregon LNG Export Facility Platt's: Expedited Federal Export Approvals Don't Mean US LNG into Europe Soon, Panels Say Sterne Agee Highlights Recent Government and Private Sector Moves of U.S. LNG Exports Action on North American liquified-natural-gas export-terminal projects accelerated late last month as regulators advanced projects on the Pacific coast and U.S. politicians debated faster approvals as a "geopolitical tool" to counter Russia's moves in the Ukraine.On March 24, the estimated $7.7-billion Jordan Cove Energy terminal in Coos Bay, Ore., became the first LNG project on the West Coast—and the first greenfield project in
Photo courtesy of Washington state DOT Slide Zone Slope above the Stillagaumish River had been timbered several times, which weakened soil stability. Related Links: Lidar Mapping Offers Exacting Detail, a Better Landslide Awareness Tool Landslide Mitigation Measures Fail To Save Plan To Build Bypass Bridges in Oregon New unstable-slope rules, updated in 2011 by the Washington State Dept. of Natural Resources, and unheeded warnings about logging as far back as 1988, could not prevent the March 22 landslide near Oso nor keep victims out of its deadly path.The event has killed at least 24, with 22 missing, as of April
Photo courtesy Wikipedia Commons Ethiopian Cargo, a subsidiary of Ethiopian Airlines, will manage the new cargo terminal being built at Addis Ababa Bole International Airport in Ethiopia. Related Links: Around the World With Caterpillar Chief Doug Oberhelman Ethiopia Aims to Host Africa's Tallest Building Despite recent declines in air cargo activity throughout Africa and forecasts predicting only minimal increases, major airports across the region are launching terminal projects in anticipation of rebounding global economic activity. Developments in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Uganda, Angola and Ghana are among those now moving into construction.In January, Ethiopian Airlines announced it had signed a $148-million turnkey
Halton Borough Council A private consortium signs on to build new Silver Jubilee Bridge. Halton Borough Council Related Links: UK Takes Hard Look At Private Finance Initiative S&P: Private Investors Could Hlep Narrow Infrastructure Gap Construction on the U.K.’s roughly $800-million, privately-financed cable-stayed Silver Jubilee bridge over the River Mersey, 20 kilometers east of Liverpool, is set to start next month following the March 29 signing of all key contracts.Procured under a 30-year design-build-finance-operate contract, the 1.5-km-long crossing between Widnes and Runcorn is due to open in late 2017.“We’ve already started our work to engage with the local supply chain
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