image courtesy of Gensler Proposed Farmers Field would join a sports-and-entertainment district in downtown Los Angeles. Image courtesy HKS HKS's concept for a football stadium in the Twin Cities. Related Links: 49ers Use Collaborative Delivery 'Special Teams' To Speed Stadium Construction Sidebar: At 49ers Stadium, Buckling-Restrained Braces Are a Big Plus Even in today's corporatized-sports era of millionaire players, billionaire owners and billion-dollar stadiums, sports is deeply embedded in a city's identity. Planners and city boosters inevitably want to harness that emotional connection as an engine of urban development. They have found it is not all that easy to do.In
Hurricane Sandy exceeded officials’ worst fears and dealt a knock-out punch to New York City’s century-old-plus-infrastructure, leaving an unprecedented 800,000 customers without power and millions more without public transportation for what could be weeks.
At least 300,000 people were without power along the US East Coast at mid-afternoon on Monday, Oct. 29 as rain and hurricane-force winds caused by Hurricane Sandy moved closer to shore causing outage totals to climb quickly.
New York State officials have apparently selected a Fluor Corp.-led team to continue negotiations for the contract to design and build the replacement Tappan Zee Bridge across the Hudson River, an estimated $5.2 billion-contract, according to several industry sources close to the competition and a published report.
Photo by Robert Hernandez, courtesy Miami-Dade Fire Rescue The five-story structure at Miami Dade College, estimated to have been 90% complete, suffered a sudden progressive collapse near midday of Oct. 10. Photo by Robert Hernandez, courtesy Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Crews with Miami-Dade Fire Rescue discovered the last buried worker five days after the building collapse. Related Links: News Blog: Fourth Body Found at Miami Garage Collapse Site Bad Design Cited in Collapse of Jacksonville, Fla., Parking Garage Building Sequence Probed at Cincinnati Casino Collapse A section of a $22.5-million parking garage project under construction near Miami collapsed without warning on
Five teams of major construction firms have been selected to compete to design and build the second phase of the planned Metrorail transit extension to northern Virginia’s Dulles International Airport, and beyond.
A space shuttle's painstaking, earthbound journey through the streets of Los Angeles to its final destination required 18 months of advanced engineering to minimize the impact on a busy urban infrastructure corridor.
Following a preliminary determination in March, the Dept. of Commerce has upheld a decision that duties should be imposed on Chinese solar photovoltaic cells and panels.
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