Related Links: Construction Industry Needs to Coordinate Its Work Force Solutions You Actually Found Some Skilled LaborNow What? Faced with what could be an unprecedented labor shortage as the economy picks up, construction professionals are uniting to rebuild the pipeline of young workers that once flowed into the industry from vocational and technical programs across the U.S."Somewhere in recent decades, our country made a collective decision that everyone should attend college. The robust workforce and technical education programs that once existed in our high schools disappeared in favor of college-track programs," says Brian Turmail, executive director of public affairs for
Photo Courtesy of the Golden State Warriors Arena's new site, nearly two miles south of the first location, is near San Francisco Bay but does not sit on its piers. Related Links: Golden State Warriors Snøhetta San Francisco's Golden State Warriors basketball team recently abandoned a 13-acre bayfront site along the Embarcadero at city-owned Piers 30-32 for the team's future arena. Instead, the team revealed, on April 22, a purchase deal for a privately held, 12-acre vacant parcel, 1.7-miles south in Mission Bay. The site is near but not over the bay.The move followed two years of development that was
Related Links: Russia Moving To Expand Global Nuclear Power Market Share Nuclear Resurgence Dims Due to Rising Costs, Low Demand Additional nuclear powerplant shutdowns will make it harder for the United States to meet its climate goals, a new policy brief from the nonprofit Center for Climate and Energy Solutions concludes.Further, more retirements could lead to more widespread blackouts, similar to those seen in the Northeast during 2014's polar vortex, said Bill Mohl, president of Entergy Wholesale Commodities, a division of Entergy Corp., on April 28.Since October 2012, four power companies have said they will retire five nuclear reactors earlier
Photo courtesy of MMDA Photo courtesy of MMDA Related Links: Mumbai Bridge Link to Mainland Attracts Bidder Interest India Chips Away at Massive Urbanization Needs Fourteen teams are vying for prequalification for the $4.4-billion Mumbai Metro-Line 3 project, which will entail $2.6-billion in civll work, including potentially complex tunneling through coastal and cultural areas of Mumbai.Afcons-KMB, CEC-ITDCEM-TPL, CTCEG-PIIPL, Dogus-Soma, IL&FS-CR25G, J Kumar-CRTG, L&T-STEC, Mosmetrostroy-HCC, OHL-SKE&C, Pratibha Industries-GDYT, Sacyr CMC ESSAR, Salin Impregilo-Gammon, STRABAG-AG-Patel and Unity-IVRCL-CTG submitted prequalification bids in Februrary. The tender is scheduled for release by July with the contract to be awarded by January 2015, according to Sanjay
Photo Courtesy of Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation The controversial Gibe III dam is nearly 75% complete. Related Links: Gibe III project website Sean Avery's original study Construction of the $2-billion Gibe III dam in Ethiopia could have harmful effects on one of Africa’s largest lakes, according to a study commissioned by the African Development Bank.But in a March interview with London’s Guardian newspaper, the Ethiopian ambassador disputed the study’s conclusions.The report says filling the dam’s 16.26-cu-kilometer reservoir would require massive removals of water from River Omo, which feeds Lake Turkana, Africa’s fourth-largest lake, in neighboring Kenya.The storage volume is equivalent
WSDOT Bertha's shield, pictured during assembly in Seattle in the summer of 2013. WSDOT Bertha's cutter head, pictured here prior to assembly in summer 2013, will be augmented by an improved main bearing and more robust seals, which repair crews will install this summer, according to the contractor. Related Links: Seattle Tunneling Behemoth Bertha Awaits Repairs to Bearing Seals Divers Searching for Way To Get TBM 'Bertha' Moving Again There will be no tunneling in 2014 of the new state Route 99 under downtown Seattle. The latest repair schedule, released on April 21, for North America’s largest tunnel-boring machine, dubbed
Related Links: Hong Kong Secures $1.1 Billion To Cover Jump in Cost of Link Road Project Longest Immersed Tube Tunnels Chinese contractors have hit the halfway mark of building an immersed-tube tunnel (ITT) between Hong Kong and Macao that, when opened in 2016, will be the world's longest, at 29.6 kilometers. But engineers in Denmark are in the final procurement phase for a project that will be three times longer: a Denmark-Germany ITT across the Fehmarnbelt waterway.Final price bids for the 17.6-km-long Fehmarnbelt road-and-rail ITT are due this December, and work will start next summer, says Steen Lykke, technical director
Related Links: Google Invests In Solar Africa Morocco Pushing Solar Project in Western Sahara A $24-million photovoltaic field under construction in Rwanda is nearing completion on land belonging to a village built to house orphans from the central African country’s genocide 20 years ago.Even as the nation and many parts of the world paused this month to mark this grim anniversary, Rwanda’s infrastructure is improving, and its economy, perhaps, is pursuing a steady road to growth, relying less on volatile commodity prices and more on knowledge and ease of doing business.The 8.5-MW photovoltaic field is perched on top of a
Related Links: ASEAN Infrastructure Spending To Top $500B by 2020 Vietnam, Indonesia Hold Opportunity for U.S. Infrastructure Firms With an expanding population and a stated goal of adding roughly 60 gigawatts of power-generating capacity by the year 2022, the government of Indonesia has advanced multiple major power projects in recent months. While many of the projects are traditional coal-fired and gas-fired powerplants, the archipelago nation is looking to expand its renewables mix, with a heavy emphasis on geothermal power.In an press conference on April 8, state-owned enterprises Minister Dahlan Iskan announced plans to build a 2,000-MW coal-fired powerplant in the
Construction industry and union groups are blasting the Obama administration for again postponing a decision on the proposed $5.3-billion Keystone XL oil pipeline.
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