Located immediately adjacent to the island of Saipan’s pristine western lagoon and tourist recreational areas, this project benefited the community by turning the unusable, dangerous and environmentally problematic 21-acre Puerto Rico Dump into a local park that celebrates peace.
A rail line in Kenya linking Nairobi, the capital, with the port city of Mombasa is said to be the country’s largest infrastructure project since it gained independence in 1963.
A years-long squabble between Denver’s Regional Transportation District and its private-sector consortium for new commuter rail, Denver Transit Partners, has finally landed in court. DTP is suing the transit agency, seeking more money and a change in the law.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposed fines totaling $86,658 for five contractors involved with the Florida International University pedestrian-bridge project that suffered a catastrophic collapse on March 15, killing six.
Technology has become firmly embedded in disaster response and management, and every major event, such as the record-demolishing September 2018 floods in the Carolinas, sees new or improved tools showing up in the toolbox.
Quentin Wheeler, a retired U.S. Navy helicopter pilot and the CEO of a North Carolina company called Applied Drone Systems, has been flying drone missions over flooded towns in southeastern North Carolina during the Hurricane Florence emergency.
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