Design-Build and Construction Management-at-Risk are assuming an increasing percentage of the overall market.

The independent panel reviewing the investigation of San Francisco’s troubled Salesforce Transit Center is tasked with both determining the cause of brittle fractures in two bottom flanges of twin built-up plate girders and assigning responsibility for the fractures, according to Ron Alameida, director of design and construction for the public owner, the Transbay Joint Powers Authority. 

Workers have completed repairs of the fractured girders at the beleaguered Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco, shuttered since late September, some six weeks after it opened.

The second of two major sediment diversion projects in Plaquemines Parish, La., is closer to construction following the naming of a contractor to build the $700-million structure that will use mud from the bottom of the Mississippi River to help rebuild the state’s disappearing wetlands.

Cross-complaints filed regarding San Francisco’s troubled Salesforce Transit Center, shuttered after girder fractures

The steel subcontractor and the fabricator for the problem bridge-like spans at San Francisco's Salesforce Transit Center are vigorously countering the Transbay Joint Powers Authority's contention that a construction error caused the brittle fractures of the hub’s two built-up plate girders.