In the thirsty West, where there is a growing need to find new water supplies, large water-diversion schemes have returned to the forefront of planning.The controversial Yampa Pumpback project in Colorado proposes to divert 2,000 cu ft per second of water, or around 97 billion gallons a year, from the Yampa River into a new 500,000-acre-ft reservoir near Dinosaur National Monument in the northwestern part of the state.From there, it would be pumped through a pipeline and tunnels nearly 250 miles east into a storage reservoir near Fort Collins, Colo. Cost estimates for the project range from $3.9 billion to
Photo by Aileen Cho / ENR MoDOT Chairman Miller discussed the agency's funding situation during the "Low and Slow Across America's Infrastructure" tour. Related Links: Low and Slow Across America's Infrastructure Many engineers, consultants and contractors will have to seek work in places other than Missouri through the rest of the decade. Early this month, the Missouri Dept. of Transportation announced it will not embark on any new expansion projects in its five-year FY2016-20 transportation plan, due to lack of funding.In May, ENR’s “Low & Slow Across America’s Infrastructure” tour made stops along Interstate 70 in St. Louis and in
With the announcement that BP has reached an agreement with the federal government over damages caused to the Gulf of Mexico by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, observers say the time line for significant coastal restoration projects will be accelerated.
If all goes as planned, the growing season for lettuce and herbs will begin before year-end in a 69,000-sq-ft converted steel plant in Newark, N.J.Crews are transforming the plant into a $30-million vertical farm. The team includes the grower AeroFarms, which will be headquartered there, and the building owner-developer, RBH Group.When completed, AeroFarms will have the capacity to grow up to 2 million lb per year of baby leaf greens and herbs in an environmentally controlled, safe and sanitary facility, says AeroFarms, which hopes to create a model for sustainable indoor farming.Annual production per sq ft will be 75 times
Enlarge Rendering Courtesy of Hong Kong Airport Authority Hong Kong master plan includes a third runway and extensive reclamation work. Related Links: Immersed In Innovations, Hong Kong-Macau Link Takes Shape Hong Kong Secures $1.1 Billion To Cover Jump in Cost of Link Road Project Construction of a third runway at one of the world's busiest airports will include careful reclamation of some 650 hectares of contaminated land, using techniques such as Deep Cement Mixing (DCM) and wick drains. Hong Kong’s Chek Lap Kok International Airport needs the third runway to handle an expected 97 million passengers by 2030, as compared
Image courtesy of Auckland Transport New transit link will serve a rapidly growing Auckland city center. Image courtesy of Auckland Transport Related Links: New Zealand's $1B Highway Job Resumes After Concrete Error Skills Shortage Challenges New Zealand Earthquake Rebuild A $1.7-billion public transit line dubbed the “missing link” in Auckland, New Zealand’s rail and bus network is a step closer to construction. Two joint ventures are beginning a $2-million initial design phase for the City Rail Link (CRL), which will include 3.6 meters of tunnels.Downer NZ, Soletanche Bachy JV, and Connectus, a joint venture of McConnell Dowell and Hawkins, will
Related Links: Egypt Moves Forward on $6-Billion Petrochemical Project Dramatic Drop in Fuel Prices Starts to Ripple Through Costs Carbon Holdings, Egypt’s largest industrial developer and operator of downstream oil-and-gas projects, hopes to finalize funding for its $7.4-billion Tahrir Petrochemicals project by the end of the year. Key to the deal is a pledge by five financiers to back construction of the complex.Carbon Holdings CEO Basil El-Baz last year projected the greenfield project would reach financial closure by the fourth quarter and break ground in 2015, but delays in finalizing project financing have pushed back the schedule.El-Baz was quoted by
A new standard for design guidance on legionellosis is currently available from ASHRAE, formerly known as the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers. ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 188-2015, Legionellosis: Risk Management for Building Water Systems, sets minimum legionellosis-risk-management requirements for water systems.ASHRAE developed the standard in response to the 8,000 to 10,000 cases of Legionnaires’ disease reported each year in the U.S. More than 10% of those cases are fatal, says Tom Watson, chair of the ASHRAE committee that wrote the standard. Legionella can also cause a less-severe influenza-like illness known as Pontiac Fever.The standard is targeted for use by
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