Several years ago, Pickering’s burgeoning transit system required two new parking structures at one of its most active stations, including one located across from one of North America’s busiest highways, live railway tracks and a municipal road.
Replacing Seattle’s aging Alaskan Way Viaduct required a bored tunnel solution, forming a nearly two-mile section of State Route 99 underneath the city’s downtown.
For the opening stage of an ambitious metro system development project planned to unify all of the railway networks in Qatar by 2030, Madrid-based FCC Construcción built the south portion of one of three lines in the 85- kilometer-long first phase of the program, and three of the first phase’s stations.
The James B. Garrison Bridges crossing the Lake Tillery reservoir, east of Charlotte, N.C., are undergoing a $20.1-million design-build rehabilitation that will improve safety while preserving the bridges’ past.
Although construction contractors from Asia and Europe are pledging to collaborate on building infrastructure that promotes economic growth and international ties, a former United Nations secretary-general is challenging the global construction industry to go further and expand its efforts to address climate change.