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Transportation

Colorado City Drops Out of Toll Road Plan

Broomfield withdraws from Jefferson Parkway project after soil sample yields plutonium

Jim Parsons

February 28, 2020

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Will proximity to a former federal nuclear weapons complex scrap the $250-million road project?

Steel Construction

In Final Salesforce Center Girder Fracture Report, Panel Suggests Key Code Changes

Microcracks evolved into pop-in cracks and turned into fractures

Richard Korman

February 27, 2020

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New knowledge of steel construction emerges from the calamity that shut a new San Francisco building for months.

PG&E Wildfire Penalty Hits $2.1B, Largest-Ever By State

Erica Berardi

February 27, 2020

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Regulators add $462 million more in fines for the bankrupt utility's role in igniting northern California blazes in 2017 and 2018.

Rail Transit Infrastructure

DOT, Amtrak Weigh Near-Term Repair Plan for Hudson River Tunnel

Tom Ichniowski

February 27, 2020

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But top House appropriator calls plan "a nonstarter," unless DOT also funds new $12B Hudson tunnel.

Additional $4.3B In Funding Allotted to I-35 Through Central Texas

Louise Poirier

February 27, 2020

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Three pots of money would be tapped for what TxDOT calls a statewide strategic priority.

'Leaning Tower of Dallas' Still Standing After Failed Demolition

Jeff Rubenstone

February 27, 2020

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An 11-story office tower in Dallas, Texas was set to be brought down in a controlled demolition in Feb. 16, which dropped the outer shell of the building but failed to bring down the structure’s concrete core.

Transportaton

UK Appeal Court Scraps Heathrow's Third Runway Plan

$18B expansion did not comply with international climate change commitments, court finds

Peter Reina

February 27, 2020

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The project can be made compatible with climate commitments, a spokesman said.

Two Building Inspectors at New Orleans Hard Rock Site Suspended

Jeff Rubenstone

February 27, 2020

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As efforts advance to finally demolish the partially collapsed Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans, two city building inspectors have been suspended for failing to properly inspect the site last summer.

Bridges