Related Links: Skanska Video: How Do You Move a Harvard Fresco? Global Best Office Project: The Place, London Global Best Projects Winner, Best Large Project: The Shard As Harvard University's estimated $247-million renovation and expansion of its art museums nears completion, project teams in the Boston area are breathing easy after some complex maneuvers to protect and move the art.The project integrates the Fogg, the Busch-Reisinger and the Arthur M. Sackler museums and their combined 250,000 works of art under one roof. The new building is targeting LEED Gold certification and will add 12,000 sq feet of gallery space to
Rendering Courtesy of NRG Energy Petra Nova Holdings The technology will be built alongside the existing W.A. Parish station, near Houston, and could be a model for other plants. + Image Rendering Courtesy of NRG Energy Petra Nova Holdings Related Links: Clean Coal: Is Carbon Capture and Storage Fossil Fuels' Best Hope? A top official at the U.S. Dept. of Energy says a planned $1-billion carbon-capture project on a large coal unit near Houston represents "a major milestone" in the DOE's effort to maintain coal-fired generation as a viable way to meet energy needs and carbon-emission regulations.Christopher Smith, principal deputy
Photo Courtesy of Magnusson Klemencic Associates/Michael Dickter Related Links: New Atlanta Falcons Stadium Design More Than a Box With a Lid The multipurpose Levi's Stadium, which will be used primarily for football's San Francisco 49ers and soccer's San Jose Earthquakes, will be completed within the $1.27-billion budget and delivered on time by the Turner-Devcon Joint Venture, says Jack Hill, the 49ers project executive.The first game, between the Earthquakes and the Seattle Sounders, will be on Aug. 2. As construction winds down, planning is revving up for an estimated $6.5-billion development on 215 acres across the street. The city approved this
+ Image Source: AllAboard Florida Related Links: Bi-Partisan Panel Pushes Importance of Infrastructure Investment Complex SunRail Project Tests Design-Build Delivery Despite concerns raised by citizens groups about project funding and community impacts, the company developing a $1.5-billion Miami-to-Orlando passenger rail line is pushing ahead with its ambitious plans for the 235-mile-long system. Officials with All Aboard Florida (AAF)—a division of Florida East Coast Industries (FECI), Coral Gables—unveiled their third south Florida station, in West Palm Beach, on July 21.In conjunction with the event, AAF tweeted this from President Michael Reininger: "All initial steps for our stations are now underway. This
Related Links: Wash. State Tackling Issues in NTSB's Skagit Bridge-Collapse Report Fast-Track Replacement Planned For Collapsed Skagit River Bridge The National Transportation Safety Board says a distracted pilot driver speaking on a hands-free cellular phone, inadequate clearance signage and a trucker unaware of lane rules share the blame for the span collapse of Washington's Skagit River bridge last year.The state's automated oversize-load permitting system also needs updating, says the NTSB's report on the May 23, 2013, incident, in which a truck hauling an oversize load struck the Interstate 5 Skagit River bridge, causing a span to collapse 38 ft into
Tax-incentive packages being awarded by municipalities and states to manufacturers to locate big projects are including local-hire requirements for construction labor that contractors say can be tough to meet."Most owners receive state incentives and support to attract these projects, and that puts the challenge on us to find local subcontractors who are qualified and have capacity," says Chris Morgan, project manager at Michigan-based Walbridge Construction. "The difficulty varies by the state or region."Before starting work in 2012 on the first $975-million phase of the Benteler Steel plant near Shreveport, La., Walbridge knew it had to meet local hiring mandates for
Rendering courtesy of Alaska Gasline Development Corp. BP, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, TransCanada and the State of Alaska are working together to progress the Alaska LNG project, shown here in a conceptual rendering. Rendering courtesy of Alaska Gasline Development Corp. The 800-mile pipeline would eventually deliver up to 3.5 billion cubic feet of gas per day. At peak of construction, the project is expected to create some 15,000 jobs, with 1,000 expected for pipeline operations. Design and engineering of a major new pipeline to deliver natural gas from Alaska’s North Slope to Alaskans and the export market is set to begin following
Image courtesy of University of Washington, Seattle/Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Octagonal prefabricated pre-tensioned concrete columns may improve bridge behavior in an earthquake. Related Links: Reno Researchers Shake Things Up U.S. Post-Tensioned Seismic Systems Not Yet Tested by a Quake University researchers have unveiled a new concrete bridge bent system that they say reduces earthquake damage while speeding construction. The new rocking design uses octagonal, prefabricated, pretensioned concrete columns for added elasticity and a recentering effect that minimizes seismic-related structural damage and displacement. The structural support system’s critical components are created under factory conditions for improved quality and reduced erection
Related Links: Public-Private Partnerships Will Be Key in Bridge, Airport Projects: Port Authority Chief P3s, Maintenance In the Future for NYC Area, Transpo Leaders Say Aside from the unexplained disqualification of one of four teams this spring, details on the much-anticipated $2.4-billion public-private partnership award to rebuild LaGuardia airport’s central terminal building (CTB) remain in a holding pattern.Buffeted by recent negative press regarding "Bridgegate" and its organizational structure, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is tight-lipped, although work on the $3.5-billion renovation is expected to begin sometime this fall. “When we have something to announce, we will
Early-stage construction of an incinerator and powerplant project near Baltimore is at a standstill after the Maryland Dept. of the Environment issued a stop-work order over emissions reductions credits (ERC) needed to comply with restrictions on its air-quality permit.The plant owner, Energy Answers International, had received an air-quality permit to construct a 120-MW generating station that would combust an average of 4,000 tons per day of processed municipal solid waste at the brownfield site in Curtis Bay, Md., according to the Maryland DOE. The company first had to show, however, that it had offset credits for approximately 1,500 tons of
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