Courtesy of Amtrak Rendering of proposed new Union Station train shed, looking south from H Street. Existing historic station would be behind new shed. Related Links: PDF of Amtrak plan summary, press release Amtrak has unveiled an ambitious plan, which would cost $6.5 billion or more, to revamp Washington, D.C.,’s Union Station, adding capacity to handle future passenger traffic, preserving the historic station’s distinctive architecture and seeking to give a boost to the local economy.The expansion and alterations to the station would be literally topped off by 3 million sq ft of new, privately financed office, residential and other buildings,
Trahan Architects The mixed-use project will include retail, office, residential and entertainment spaces. Trahan Architects The development is adjacent to Erqi Tower, a double pagoda that is Zhengzhou's main tourist attraction. Trahan Architects has been selected by the Henan Hongguang Industry Group to design an $880-million mixed-use project in Zhengzhou, the capital and largest city of China's Henan province.The Baton Rouge, La.-based firm's design concept envisions a 4.3-million-sq-ft complex, with two sloping, flat-top towers and a large atrium. It will occupy a 6.9-acre triangular site in the city's main shopping district, adjacent to Erqi Tower, a 14-story double pagoda that
It is essentially a gigantic ditch, packed with equipment, concrete, rebar and thousands of laborers from many countries. It is a hotbed of construction challenges and a momentous sequel to one of the world's engineering epics: the original 1914 construction of the Panama Canal.
Related Links: Battle Heats Up Over Georgia's Transportation Tax Vote Architect's 'BeltLine' Idea Reshapes Atlanta A debate over taxation and government spending is heating up in advance of a July 31 vote in Georgia over a penny sales-tax increase. The deal could boost funding for transportation projects by an estimated $18.7 billion.Twelve separate regional elections for a special-purposes local-options sales tax will help decide the statewide vote over the Transportation Investment Act. If passed, the tax increase would be enacted in the regions in which voters approved the measure and remain in effect for 10 years.According to the Georgia Dept.
Related Links: A Russian Cable-Stayed Transformation The World's Top 10 Longest Cable-Stayed Bridges Whatever else Russia achieves with the planned Pacific Rim economic summit in Vladivostok in September, its legacy will include construction of the world's longest cable- stayed bridge span and a big boost to this sleepy Far East fishing port.The Russky Island bridge will extend the span record to 1,104 meters and include seeds of a new high-wire system to dampen vibrations of cables. Bridge design engineers are addressing the challenge of cable-induced vibrations as modern cable-stayed spans grow in size.Construction of the island span and, five kilometers
The quality standards set for the locks for the Panama Canal's Third Lane Expansion are enormously high, partly due to seismic risk. While the danger posed by earthquakes is perceived to be low, studies by the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) found evidence of an active fault running next to the new locks on the Pacific side of the canal.
Photo by istockphoto.com Pilot program lets buildings qualify for LEED based on lower requirements. Related Links: U.S. Green Building Council EPA's Energy Star program Members of the buildings sector are applauding the U.S. Green Building Council's decision to delay the release of the next version of its popular green-building rating system, called LEED. In the meantime, debate rages on over the content of the draft revision. Consequently, USGBC is holding an unprecedented fifth public comment period on the latest draft, from Oct. 2 to Dec. 10.The delay follows a torrent of comments, some 22,000 so far, that greeted the fourth
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet expects to issue in October the first construction contracts for a $165-million bridge to replace the Eggner's Ferry Bridge over Kentucky Lake in the southwestern part of the state. Emergency repairs to the original 80-year-old span, which carries U.S. 68/Ky. 80 over the Tennessee River, originated this spring after a barge carrying rocket components struck the crossing in January.
As fuel costs and environmental concerns rise in conjunction with shrinking road budgets, cold in-place recycling paving, or CIRP, methods continue to gain interest nationwide. Cold in-place recycling has been used on low-volume roads for some time, but the technique may gain acceptance on higher-volume roads as well.
The status of a highly publicized $3-billion bridge-and-road program, seen as an economic driver for the impoverished nation of Bangladesh, remains unclear after the World Bank canceled a $1.2-billion credit, citing the government's "inadequate response" to charges of corruption on the project.
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