After more than five years of official study at a cost of at least $16 million, a team of World Bank consultants are close to completing work that, so far, supports building an estimated $10-billion water pipeline project in Jordan.
Courtesy Britt Crow The entrances to the tunnels under the Yellow River, near Zhengzhou, were completed in December 2011. Related Links: Megaprojects: South-to-North Water Transfer Project Feature: World Water Day 2012 Chinas South-North Water Transfer Project: A Means to a Political End The Chinese government says its contractors are on schedule to complete this month the first phase of the $62-billion South-North Water Diversion Project. Originally proposed by Chairman Mao Zedong in 1952, the SNWDP is a large-scale water-transfer project that will convey water from the Yangtze River and its tributaries in southern China to the Yellow and Hai rivers
Related Links: Cracks Delay Floating Bridge Project Test Pontoon Prepares Team For Real-Time Construction Flaws in the design led to cracks during post-tensioning of the first four concrete pontoons built for the replacement of the world's longest floating bridge in Seattle, says the Washington State Dept. of Transportation. The fix could cost tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars and potentially delay the $4.13-billion project.In detailing a report from a blue-ribbon review panel, state Transportation Secretary Paula Hammond maintained that the pontoons—designed to a 75-year life cycle—are structurally sound. But the report revealed that five cracks up to .03
A clear trend around the world is a shift to doing green building out of business, rather than environmental and social, motives (above). In 2012, 89% of the survey's respondents had installed or specified green buildings products (below). Related Links: For more data and intelligence on green building around the world, download the full World Green Building Trends SmartMarket Report. The picture on green building is getting clearer: Green building is growing around the world and quickly becoming an industry standard. A new research study conducted by McGraw-Hill Construction on global green building trends demonstrates that green building is well
Construction workers in Rio are busy building thirty-one 17-story towers for the 2016 Olympic Games, and the crews are employing a special strategy to deal with the tight schedule.
The sprint to finish Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic Park in time for the 2016 Summer Games began in February, when contractors began earthmoving work and demolition of a racetrack at the site’s center. Construction of the main facilities will start in July.
Related Links: Muddy River Restoration website After more than a decade of planning and vigorous public debate, the $76-million Muddy River Flood Damage Reduction and Environmental Restoration project is now under way in metropolitan Boston’s historic Emerald Necklace parks and waterways.The project broke ground in October 2012 and is scheduled for completion by 2015, says Mike Keegan, project manager for the New England Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Corps will manage the project with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the city of Boston, and the town of Brookline serving as non-federal sponsors.The project is a response to
Image By ENR Art Dept. Related Links: Innergex's Project Website Now that the British Columbia government has given the go-ahead to build three run-of-river generating stations and a 45-mile transmission line in the Upper Lillooet River Valley, the winning joint-venture and engineering teams are working through the 37 conditions that come with the approval.The $420-million project will proceed only if the developer, Creek Power Inc., maintains minimum in-stream flow requirements and monitors temperature and ice conditions for the life of the 230-KW project, government officials say.The Creek Power JV is two-thirds owned by Innergex Renewable Energy and one-third owned by
With pipelines to terminals in short supply, North Dakota crude is moving by rail. Related Links: Bakken Oil-Shale Extraction Sparks a Construction Boom North Dakota Is Bakken Business Carbis Inc. Savage Services employment link Over the past month, at defunct oil refineries, industrial facilities and other brownfields on the East Coast, construction work has been accelerating to convert these sites into rail terminals to take crude oil from North Dakota's Bakken shale formation.The boomlet is gaining momentum. In Eddystone, Pa., Enbridge is turning the site of a shuttered coal plant into a rail terminal able to take delivery of about
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