After months of silence while it negotiated project issues with airlines and residents, the city of Philadelphia announced on June 4 that a team led by CH2M Hill Cos. will be program manager for a major expansion of Philadelphia International Airport.
A labor shortage, brutal weather and caribou have bogged down the $1-billion expansion and upgrade of a crucial highway in the Canadian province of Alberta, while public concern mounts over the frequency of deaths on that road.
A Sacramento Bee investigation has raised questions about the structural integrity of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge's foundation and its ability to withstand a major earthquake.
As part of a $4.65-billion state Route 520 bridge replacement program east of Seattle, Omaha-based Kiewit Corp. and its subsidiary General Construction Co. are working in Aberdeen, Wash., on a $367.3-million project to build 33 of the largest pontoons ever constructed in the state. The pontoons are part of a total of the 77 needed for the overall replacement of the current Seattle-to-Medina floating bridge across Lake Washington.
McGraw-Hill Construction has launched the new Dodge Momentum Index, which is designed to be an accurate indicator of future construction put-in-place data published by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce. In designing the new index, MHC looked at over a decade of monthly data and discovered that Dodge's planning figures can predict non-residential building put-in-place 12 month ahead with a 91% accuracy rate. Since last July, the index has trended up in all but two months.
The Oregon Dept. of Transportation's new plans for the state's historically plagued $217-million U.S. 20 project will focus on culverts as the only viable way to deal with chronic issues of unstable soils and shifting bridge bents.
Related Links: Abu Dhabi Ambition Kohn Pederson Fox Associates The on-and-off pace of development in Abu Dhabi has picked up momentum this year, following the announcement of which marquee projects are priorities in the current economic climate. One of those marquee projects is the planned midfield terminal at Abu Dhabi International Airport; the construction team will be officially confirmed soon.The $6.8-billion, 700,000-sq-meter building is expected to open in 2017. The project is part of an overall airport expansion, which includes additional gates, expansion of a security screening area for connecting passengers in Terminal 3 and a new arrivals terminal in
Crews are driving soil nails into an East Tennessee hillside to stabilize land around a section of Interstate 75 after a massive slide took out southbound lanes, which could be closed all summer.Elmo Greer & Sons LLC, East Bernstadt, Ky., already had crews on-site when the slide occurred on May 8. The contractor was repairing damage to the highway after a section of embankment collapsed on March 8.Greer’s $9.3-million contract, awarded
In response to the dramatic growth of Panama City in recent years—along with severe traffic congestion—a design-build team is constructing a 14-kilometer, $1.8-billion light-rail line that will be the first of its kind in Central America.
As part of its billion-dollar effort to expand its national rail network, Israel will seek global interest later this year and in 2013 on two design-build contracts for key rail projects in the country’s northern region, its most populous.State-owned Israel National Roads Co., which oversees the country’s overall rail expansion, will manage the planned procurement of the two lines, totaling about $150 million.
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