Going Up. Seismic rules and industry conditions may propel cost hikes. (Photo courtesy of Dept. of Energy) Officials of the U.S. Dept. of Energy hope to know by mid-June exactly how much more than $5.8 billion it will cost to build the huge radioactive waste treatment complex at the Hanford, Wash., site. New regional seismic standards and changing conditions in nuclear construction prompted Bechtel Group to revise project cost estimates, say company officials. The complex includes a waste pretreatment plant and high-level and low-level vitrification facilities. Bechtel submitted a new cost proposal to DOE last month. The Army Corps of
Martin’s positive attitude and endurance are the qualities people talk about most. "One thing anybody who has ever met Gregg Martin remembers about him is the enormous energy he has," says Wallace.
Construction is a wonderful subject for serious photography. It literally roars with rapidly changing activities that can yield eternally powerful images.
TOUGH TERRAIN Concrete viaducts span mountain valleys but slope stabilization and reinforcement has been difficult. (Photo by John J. Kosowatz for ENR) For centuries, Croatia's geographic location as a flash point between East and West has made the small Balkan country a battlefield. Culturally tied to the West and often dominated by the East, independent Croatia is looking in both directions to tap its undeveloped coastline and a lucrative tourist industry that could fuel its struggling economy. The first step is to speed access to the coast through an ambitious multibillion-dollar motorway that will replace a snake's tail of narrow,
There are a few people in the powerplant construction business who would love to see James M. Bernhard Jr., the smooth-talking multimillionaire chairman of what is probably the world's most sophisticated pipe fabricator, The Shaw Group, fall flat on his face. Bernhard, through a series of contracting acquisitions, has gone into competition against some of his customers, including powerful Bechtel Group Inc. He began easing his way into the turnkey powerplant construction business from 1997 to 1999, adding value, he would say, to the pipe fabrication work at which Shaw Group excels. Eighteen months ago, he upset the power pecking
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