FCC Construccion The Almonte Viaduct in western Spain is 3,268 ft long. FCC Construccion The contractor expects to complete the $130-million contract in the first quarter of 2016. Related Links: Spanish Contractors Refinance Debt To Grow Upon completion this fall, the Almonte Viaduct in western Spain will hold the record for the longest high-speed-rail bridge arch span, according to the government. Despite this imminent high-profile success, however, Spanish civil construction spending remains at a fraction of what it was before the 2008 financial crisis.The 3,268-ft-long Almonte Viaduct, located at the end of the Alcántara reservoir in the province of Cáceres
Related Links: Mount Polley Dam Failure Raises Bar for Pebble Mine Backers Satellite photo of breach impact Hungarian Tailings Dam Leak Kills 7, Contaminates Rivers The Los Frailies Tailings Dam Failure (ppt) It’s too soon to determine the extent of damage and cost of repairs caused by the Aug. 4 Mount Polley Mine tailings pond failure, officials say. The blowout dumped about 2.6 million gallons of water and 5.9 million cu yd of sand and silt into two lakes and a creek in western Canada.But a clue to the costs came as mine owner Imperial Metals Corp., Vancouver, British Columbia,
Related Links: The Nature Conserevancy U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Resources and TNC partnership U.S. map of selected projects in which The Nature Conservancy is partnering Interactive U.S. map of selected projects in which The Nature Conservancy is partnering Interactive Latin American map of selected projects in which The Nature Conservancy is partnering The world's largest conservation non-governmental organization is a 63-year-old environmental activist group that has drawn 119 million acres of sensitive lands under its protective wings. It has amassed assets of $6 billion and now annually collects $500 million in donations from its one million
William Jefferson Clinton Children's Center for Fondation Enfant Jesus is designed to use local materials, have natural ventilation and be independent of Port-Au-Prince utilities, which are not reliable. If all goes as planned, the children of Haiti will soon have a small but powerful symbol of hope in the form of a 6,000-sq-ft building.
Image: Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium Scientists in Louisiana say the "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico is three times the target set by a federal-state task force in 2001. Related Links: Ohio statewide harmful algae bloom response strategy Information on NRDC lawsuit The recent drinking-water crisis brought on by algae blooms has put Toledo's water-quality troubles on the national stage. The issue is common: Runoff from urban and agricultural areas and wastewater treatment plants create hypoxia, or algae blooms, that choke oxygen for fish and other aquatic life and trap toxins, which can poison the water."Currently, we are seeing
Related Links: Niche Products Emerge to Help Reduce Bird Deaths Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority National Audubon Society The National Audubon Society has lost its battle for a bird-friendly envelope enclosing the state-owned Minneapolis stadium, just starting construction for the National Football League's Minnesota Vikings. But the defeat, though deflating, has a silver lining, says Audubon. The group went public with its 14-month campaign against a transparent facade after the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority refused to switch to bird-friendly fritted glass for the $975-million facility."While, ideally, we hoped to find a solution through collaboration, the decision of the Minnesota Sports Facilities
Tesla Motors moved closer to selecting a site outside of Reno, Nev., for its $4-billion to $5-billion factory to produce lithium batteries for electric vehicles. The company confirmed that a 600-acre site has undergone some preconstruction work but fell short of committing to the site because of unidentified candidates in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas.In a conference call with shareholders on July 31, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the same type of work that has been completed at the recently paused site, located 17 miles east of Sparks, Nev., will be duplicated at other sites before a final decision
Photo courtesy of LADWP The break occurred at a Y-joint, requiring crews to remove and replace 76 ft of the old pipe and added two new, 4,000-lb, 36-in.-diameter butterfly valves. Photo courtesy of LADWP The burst 30-in., riveted steel pipe spilled an estimated 20 million gallons of water and flooded the UCLA campus and Sunset Boulevard. Related Links: Water Pipeline Designed to Surf Seismic Waves AECOM Wins Fight to Oversee $1.6B Miami-Dade Sewer Repairs A week after a 93-yr-old water trunk line rupture in Los Angeles sent an estimated 20 million gallons of water gushing over the UCLA campus and
Related Links: P3 Bug Spreading Among U.S. Transit Builders Amid Labor Controversy, Dulles Metro Work Carries On After five years of construction and a long string of controversies, northern Virginia's $5-billion Silver Line rail project hit a major milestone with completion of the 11.6-mile first phase. Built by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) and operated and maintained by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), the $2.9-billion segment became operational on July 26, providing a long-sought light-rail extension from the existing Metrorail system to the burgeoning edge city of Tysons Corner, the planned community of Reston and the surrounding
Related Links: Link to consent decree East Bay MUD's statement on settlement Communities surrounding California’s San Francisco Bay will invest some $1.5 billion over the next 21 years to upgrade 1,500 miles of sewer-system infrastructure as a result of a consent decree lodged in federal court on July 28.The Clean Water Settlement was hammered out by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the East Bay Municipal Water District (EBMUD) and seven East Bay communities: Alameda, Albany, Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland, Piedmont and the Stege sanitary district.The agreement resolves a lawsuit the EPA and the California State Water Resources Control Board filed, in
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