Two independent sources with knowledge of the investigation into the Oct. 10 collapse of a parking garage at Miami Dade College have refuted a claim reported by Engineering News-Record that the structure was struck a second time by a crane pick just prior to the fatal incident.
Authorities in the northeastern U.S. investigating flood-barrier technologies to block future flooding in subway tunnels have high hopes for one new device.
Superstorm Sandy has been the media star of the past month. But the documentary mission of New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority videographer J.P. Chan is to highlight Sandy's responders at the agency—those crews pumping out water, checking signal systems and bringing transit back to a dependent city as quickly as possible.
French firm Vinci Construction Grands Projets has won a contract to construct a $366-million cable-stayed bridge that will span the Panama Canal on the historic waterway's Atlantic entrance.
Nearly a decade after planning began to electrify 420 kilometers of Israel's diesel-powered rail lines, the country now is seeking bids for an estimated $2-billion project to engineer, construct and maintain the repowered network.
New York City's downtown areas hit hardest by Hurricane Sandy's storm surge were getting pumped out through the weekend as city and federal officials worked to get more tunnels and subway systems back into operation.
New York State officials have apparently selected a Fluor Corp.-led team to continue negotiations for the contract to design and build the replacement Tappan Zee Bridge across the Hudson River, an estimated $5.2 billion-contract, according to several industry sources close to the competition and a published report.
Five teams of major construction firms have been selected to compete to design and build the second phase of the planned Metrorail transit extension to northern Virginia’s Dulles International Airport, and beyond.
A space shuttle's painstaking, earthbound journey through the streets of Los Angeles to its final destination required 18 months of advanced engineering to minimize the impact on a busy urban infrastructure corridor.