Amtrak’s 2012 capital-spending plan includes work on several major Northeast Corridor infrastructure projects, as well as facility upgrades in other parts of the country, says Joseph Boardman, the railroad’s president.
One of the perks of being an editor at ENR is that we finish each year with a favorite project: the issue displaying the winners of ENR's annual photo contest.
Replacement of the historic 76-year-old, 120-ft-long Chelsea Street Drawbridge in East Boston will smooth the journey not only of 20,000 daily motorists but of barges supplying fuel for Logan International Airport and the northeast region.
The deteriorating condition and potential reconstruction of the Mughrabi bridge, located in Jerusalem's Old City, is getting a temporary fix despite controversy between Israelis and Palestinians.
The contract for $103.3 million involves building 37 miles of track, repairing 20 bridges, and preparing railroad crossings and stations. The rail is scheduled to be in service in 2014.
An auction will take place on Feb. 6 for the concessions of three important airports in Brazil. The investment, which includes construction projects to expand the airports, will support Brazil's tourism for the 2014 World Cup.
Construction is under way to fill two missing highway links in a route that connects Kenya and Ethiopia. The two countries see the project as a way to strengthen both their transport network and economic integration.
The 1,104-meter-long main span of the Russky Island cable-stayed bridge will set a new length record when that Bosporus Strait crossing opens next year.
When ethnic violence erupted last summer in northern Kosovo, builders of the country’s first modern motorway found the project’s sole supply quarry inaccessible behind roadblocks. The U.S.-Turkish construction team scoured the Balkans for aggregate and secured an alternate source just in time to continue work. The team recently completed the highway’s first section.
Oman Ministry of Transport Oman invested some $2 billion, mostly in airport construction, last year. Oman, aggressively looking to build up its infrastructure and its strategic position in the United Arab Emirates, signed nine agreements worth a total of 2.16 billion in 2011 for new airports and roads. Firms from around the world have snapped up the work.The iargest share ($1.7 billion) allotted to the construction of a 334,995-sq-m new terminal at the Muscat International Airport was awarded to a consortium of U.S-based Bechtel, Bahwan Engineering Co., and Turkey’s Enka. The airport terminal, scheduled for completion in 2014, will handle