Israel's Transport Ministry is studying a plan to build a new port in the Red Sea city of Eilat. The so-called Southern Gateway project would involve closing the existing port at the southern end of the city and digging a canal along its northeastern edge adjacent to the border with Jordan. The cost of the project is estimated at over $3 billion.
Israel's Highway 1, a key east-west artery linking Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, is getting a long-overdue $800-million upgrade. The project involves expanding to six lanes a winding 16-kilometer, four-lane segment that runs through the Judean Hills as well as construction of new supporting infrastructure.
Rendering courtesy KSP Jurgen Engel Architekten The mosques minaret will ascend 265 m into the sky, making it the tallest minaret on any mosque in the world. Rendering courtesy KSP Jurgen Engel Architekten The mosques prayer hall, shaped like a cube with regular rows of pillars, will be able to accommodate 35,000 worshippers at any one time. Algeria is set to begin construction of what is expected to be, after worship centers in the Saudi Arabia holy cities of Mecca and Medina, the world’s third-largest mosque. In February, China’s state-controlled China State Construction Engineering Corp. signed a $1.3-billion construction contract
When faced with controversies involving the country's prestigious high-speed-rail program, Chinese officials are not shy about departing from the Communist Party line that is carefully scripted in Beijing. Instead of blandly agreeing that setbacks are minor and all is well, they instead are willing to find fault and even differ with each other publicly.
Repairs to a collapsed span of the Eggners Ferry Bridge over Kentucky Lake should be completed by May 27—four months earlier than originally anticipated. Hall Contracting of Kentucky Inc., Louisville, has won a $7-million emergency contract. It faces a $50,000-per-day penalty if it misses the May 27 deadline.
Aiming for a safer approach to "cocoon" a defunct nuclear reactor at the U.S. Energy Dept.'s Hanford waste site in Washington state while its radioactivity decays over 75 years, crews will enclose it in a steel shell.
An iconic bridge playing the starring role in a $735-million, 11.5-mile light rail extension in Los Angeles County is rapidly taking shape. The $18-million project will feature giant bridge columns designed to look like Native American hand-woven baskets, to be placed along the 210 Freeway in Arcadia about 10 miles east of Los Angeles. The $18-million bridge project, being constructed by a Skanska USA-led design-build contract, is more than 60% complete, with two 28-ft-tall concrete abutments flanking the freeway. Motorists are driving under a 330-ft-long falsework tunnel structure, which give workers access to erect the permanent 584-ft-long bridge. The precast “baskets,”
Green Plains Renewable Energy, the nation's largest ethanol producer, is building what it calls a first-of-its-kind production system to transform algae into fuel.
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