At Denver International Airport, building has begun on two temporary shoring towers that will support the airport's iconic fabric tent roof during construction at the south end of the terminal. The current roof anchors are obstructing excavation for the $500-million South Terminal Redevelopment Program (STRP), which includes a 500-room Westin hotel, a public plaza and a new transit station.
When McCarran International Airport's $2.4-billion third terminal complex opens on June 27, it will mark the beginning of long delays for new big projects in the region.
On June 15, the same day the California Dept. of Transportation used a live public webinar to defend its safety testing of a new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge tower foundation, the newspaper that started the safety controversy, The Sacramento Bee, refused to retract a story to which Caltrans objected.
After several minor-to-moderate earthquakes shook the U.S. interior in 2011, a number of reports suggested a link between hydraulic fracturing—a technique used to extract natural gas from shale-gas deposits—and increased seismic activity in areas typically not prone to such events.
Toll Brothers Inc., a major U.S. home builder, will pay a $741,000 civil penalty and set up a stormwater-control program under an agreement with federal agencies to settle scores of alleged violations of the Clean Water Act.
U.K. nuclear power ambitions took a big step forward with the 18 June award by French government-owned EDF Energy plc., London, of a roughly $3.2-billion civil work contract (£2b) at its planned new plant in Somerset.
A royal opening on June 8 marked the on-time completion of a $325-million (€260 million) tunnel project to improve links between Brussels airport with the rest of Belgium and neighboring France and Germany. As rail services start through the new Diabolo project, the same construction team is on course to completing the larger Liefkenshoek rail tunnel in the port of Antwerp, 45 kilometers to the north.
Having secured an extra $1.1 billion (HK$8.8b) to cover a 54% hike in the project budget, the Hong Kong government on June 12 announced two design-build contract awards together worth nearly $3 billion for the territory's share of the 30-km-long fixed link to Macao.
In late May, the Brazilian Sports Ministry released a report detailing delays in infrastructure work intended for completion before the 2014 World Cup soccer championship. Fans may have to budget extra time to get to matches; 41 of 101 projects, including airport, transit and port improvements, are behind schedule or not yet under way, according to the report.
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