Nearly 70,000 elements of the Temperate glasshouse in London’s Kew Gardens were removed, restored and replaced, along with 15,000 panes of glass in a $41-million project to rehabilitate one of the world’s greatest Victorian-era horticultural ironwork buildings.
As advocates for spending more on highways, transit, water and other public-works projects gathered for the sixth annual Infrastructure Week’s more than 100 media events and panel discussions, it was clear that a wide-ranging bill won’t be coming this year.