Changing energy markets have led the Maine Public Utility Commission to delay approval of a power agreement for the nation’s first offshore floating wind venture, dealing a blow to the project set to begin construction this year.
As part of a $15-million flood-control effort, a former flood-prone brownfield on the 14-acre site of a razed shopping mall was remediated and turned into a park.
Despite the pressures associated with an accelerated schedule and unanticipated subsurface conditions that prompted a “workaround,” the team for the water treatment plant safely built an 8.4-million-gallon-per-day facility.
It took 17 months to complete a 3,000-sq-ft transit center with a dedicated busway that had been a city street—all the while maintaining access to an adjacent state building.