French firm Vinci Construction Grands Projets has won a contract to construct a $366-million cable-stayed bridge that will span the Panama Canal on the historic waterway's Atlantic entrance.
A new study from the National Research Council warns that the electric grid in the United States is vulnerable to terrorist attacks and needs immediate attention.
Brazil’s equatorial latitude guarantees that the country is perpetually sun-drenched. The monthly average of sunlight hours is roughly double that in, for example, Germany.
Southern Constructors Inc. of Knoxville, Tenn., is building a new equalization tank for the Gatlinburg Wastewater Treatment Plant, replacing the structure where a 40-ft. wall collapsed last year, killing two workers.
Photo by Luke Abaffy At Breezy Point in Brooklyn, N.Y., cleanup is under way and homeowners can register for NYC Rapid Repairs. Related Links: Hurricane Sandy NYC Rapid Repairs Contractor Registration FEMA Disaster Response Registry System for Award Management Sandy Recovery News and Resources Contractors can now register online for New York City’s rapid repairs program that will help homeowners rebuild after Superstorm Sandy. The Building Trades Employers Association of New York City is helping to reach out to contractors and suppliers by hosting a registration form on its website.The program, called NYC Rapid Repairs, was announced Nov. 9 by
Related Links: Progress Report on Brazil's Stadium Work for the 2014 World Cup Two Years to World Cup Kickoff for Brazilian Stadiums At Brasília’s new National Mané Garrincha Stadium, the project design and construction teams are using building information modeling to craft a signature sports facility in time for two upcoming high-profile soccer competitions. Looking to the past and the future, the arena’s architects seek to conform with the Brazilian capital’s surrounding landmark architecture as well as meet standards for sustainability.At the site, contractors have met the biggest challenge of the soccer arena’s construction: The compression concrete ring is ready.
Nearly a decade after planning began to electrify 420 kilometers of Israel's diesel-powered rail lines, the country now is seeking bids for an estimated $2-billion project to engineer, construct and maintain the repowered network.
Battered by the global banking crisis, the Irish Republic could find some answers to its economic woes in the wind. Ambitious plans to build two wind-energy projects, which would lay a total of 8,000 MW of power-transmission lines across the Irish Sea, could generate jobs and revenue while plugging some of the U.K.'s green-energy gap.
Map Courtesy of State of Montana After spending eight years and $24 million on permitting, Northwestern Energy dropped its pursuit of a $1-billion high-voltage transmission system intertie (a), which would have provided Montana wind power to networks (b) serving energy-starved Southern California. Related Links: Storm Surge Switches the Grid to 'Off' Smarter Grids Finding Limits Developers Seek FERC Permit For Plains Wind Transmission NorthWestern Tells Agencies to Halt Work on Montana-Idaho Transmission Line Since the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved a rule in 2006 allowing incentive-based rate treatment for transmission work, it has received more than 75 applications for projects
Five days before Hurricane Sandy made landfall in southern New Jersey and punched a black hole in the power grid from Atlantic City to Long Island Sound's
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