Bolt Blues. Ted Williams Tunnel remains partially closed pending fix of slipped bolts (above).(Photos Courtesy of the Massachusetts Governor’s Office) The political fallout continues in Boston following a fatal air-plenum collapse July 10 in the Interstate 90 cut-and-cover connector tunnel portal. A redundant support system is being readied while the governor prepares to possibly fire the oversight agency chairman. The accident that dropped 10 tons of concrete onto the road killed a local woman and further tarnished the $14.6-billion Central Artery/Tunnel’s image. Gov. Mitt Romney (R) has scheduled a closed hearing for July 27 to strip Matthew J. Amorello of
The pace of contracting for American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds is picking up in the highway and transit sectors. A new House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee report on the economic-stimulus legislation shows that 2,901 highway and transit projects, valued at almost $10 billion, have been put out for bid in 50 states, territories and the District of Columbia as of April 30. Related Links: State by State Project List It adds that 1,099 of those projects, totaling $3.5 billion, are under contract. The committee report, released May 21, says that work has started on 545 projects, totaling $2.1 billion.
Call them Millennials, Generation Y or Generation Next—all these names are used—but demographers interviewed by ENR and many Millennials themselves agreed the names all try to classify a distinctive group of Americans born after about 1980 who are part of a wave that continues today. Each year, this rising generation of construction professionals and craftspeople gets more relevant not only because of its growing numbers in the workforce but because of the singular qualities it brings. One key quality of Millennials is that they are digital natives—they barely remember the era before computers. Millennials told ENR they want two things
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