The largest nuclear waste site in the country — and one of the largest environmental cleanups in the world — requires plenty of seemingly small-scale successes to move cleanup forward.
With seismic resistance at the forefront of the reasoning behind the creation process, the new fiber-reinforced concrete developed at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C., undertakes its first real-world application as part of a seismic retrofit of a Vancouver elementary school.
Bertha made the tunnel, but now Seattle Tunnel Partners crews working on behalf of the Washington State Dept. of Transportation must turn that tunnel into a workable 1.7-mile double-decker roadway.
As the Hanford Nuclear Waste Site in southeast Washington nears completion of the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant Low-Activity Waste Facility, Bechtel National Inc. revealed the successful completion of assembly of two nuclear waste melters inside the facility, each at 300 tons.
In earthquake-prone Seattle, developer Wright Runstad & Co. announced the start of construction of Rainier Square Tower, an office-residential high-rise that represents the first use of a radically different core structure.
No transformation has proven quite as dramatic as in Seattle where the two pits—one at the south end of the project and the other at the north end, near the Space Needle—will require full transformations to serve the needs of the double-decker tunnel roadway.
Lifting away contaminated portions of the Hanford Nuclear Waste Site’s Plutonium Finishing Plant requires cranes to remove the largest pieces of equipment, dubbed glove boxes.
As the Oak View Group (OVG) and former Seattle Mayor Ed Murray negotiated a memorandum of understanding on a $600 million privately financed renovation of Key Arena at Seattle Center, OVG agreed to an additional $40 million for transportation mitigation around Seattle Center.
A new political leadership for British Columbia means a new direction for a multi-billion-dollar project to replace the aging George Massey Tunnel between Delta and Richmond south of Vancouver, B.C.
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