Photo Courtesy of the MTA Storm barriers are just one of dozens of suggestions in a draft report after Sandy. Photo Courtesy of the MTA Related Links: Gov. Cuomo Announces Appointments to Emergency Preparedness Commission Draft of the NYS 2100 Commission Report Pressurized Tunnel Plug Claims to be Affordable Alternative to Permanent Floodgates Storm Surge Switches Grid To Off A draft report commissioned by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) in response to Superstorm Sandy reads like a catalogue of every wish list item on every infrastructure advocate's agenda—from flood-specific recommendations for building storm surge barriers around New York to
Photo Courtesy of S&R/Pihl, a Joint Venture New steel arches for a new Pawtucket River Bridge were rolled and jacked into place in a scheme devised to shave time off a project delayed by difficult access conditions and other issues. Related Links: Project Information from ENR Pulse An $81-million steel arch bridge project, now in its third year and third phase, has featured both high-fives and hand-wringing in Rhode Island. Completion of a new 352-ft-long open spandrel Pawtucket River Bridge, with three structures, is now slated for August rather than June. Innovative methods helped make up for time lost to
Photo by Bruce Damonte In plant, workers connected most two-sided assemblies using wrong bolts. Related Links: Reshaping of Barclays Center Made Possible by Collaboration, Digital Tools Arena Subcontractor's 'Untimely' Default Delays Enclosure Concern for public safety at Brooklyn's Barclays Center—after the discovery that mostly under-strength bolts were used in the facade's prefabricated facade assemblies—was allayed soon after the error's discovery last August, says the curtain wall inspector. Even so, this week, the arena's curtain-wall fabricator is finishing up a fix that replaced 1,768 of the 23,351 bolts."There is a tremendous amount of redundancy," says Israel Berger, CEO of the New
Related Links: East Africa Power Transmission Project Ready for Takeoff Efforts To Light Up Africa Gain Momentum South Korea's Daewoo International is expanding its reach in Africa against serious competition from Chinese firms currently dominating a wide spectrum of infrastructure development in the region.The company has signed an agreement with East Africa's leading power generator, Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) for the development of a $1.3-billion thermal power plant on the coast of Kenya.The 600-MW plant will be implemented under a joint venture with Daewoo holding a 60% interest. KenGen, a partially state-owned firm, will hold the remaining stake.The project,
Related Links: More on Transocean case More on BP case More funds will go toward Gulf Coast cleanup and restoration as a result of a settlement announced on Jan. 3 between Transocean Deepwater and the federal government. In the settlement, Transocean Deepwater Inc. has agreed to plead guilty to violating the Clean Water Act and pay $1.4 billion in civil and criminal penalties for its role in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. Transocean was the operator of the drilling platform at the Macondo well that blew out in April 2010. Under the order, lodged with the U.S. District Court in
Related Links: ENR Building News The World's Tallest Building The essential function of all tall towers is to enable broadcasters to transmit line-of-sight signals to their customers."Broadcasting is a big stick industry, where one tower can cover a whole market," according to Kelly Williams, senior director of Engineering for the National Association of Broadcasters. "You put up a tower to facilitate broadcasting wirelessly."Towers host a wide variety of antennae, which transmit over the air (analog) television signals, AM and FM radio, telco long lines (which transmit data), pager signals and emergency service channels (including two-way radio).But tower owners have long
Canada's prime minister, Stephen Harper, is winning praise from the country's energy sector for a decision announced in early December that would prevent the takeover by foreign- and state-owned enterprises, or SOEs, of Canadian energy companies operating in Alberta's oil sands.
Rail grade separations. Revamped locks and dams. Toll roads and bridges. Dredging. These components are some of the most "'glamorous parts of the infrastructure conversation in the U.S.," says Pierce Homer, the American Road & Transportation Builders Association's ports-and-waterways co-chairman and Moffatt & Nichol's transportation director.
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