A popular northern Nevada commute between Reno and state capital Carson City recently improved thanks to the new Interstate-580 extension. However, construction of the $445-million project was no easy task. Related Links: Engineering News Record Architectural Record Previously, the old U.S. 395 south was the only option available, but the undivided, four-lane highway was susceptible to gridlock, high winds, flooding and head-on collisions. The new 8.5-mile, six-lane I-580 provides an alternate route from Mt. Rose Highway to the Bowers Mansion cutoff."The old highway 395 was the only all-weather route from South Lake Tahoe, Douglas County, Carson City and Lyon County
One year after the crystal anniversary of ENR Southwest's Best Projects competition, judges from throughout the Southwest were once again called upon to arbitrate the more than 100 construction projects chosen by the submitters as the best works of their firms.
A building that was once a boarding house during the World War II era and then a motel got a complete makeover when the project team was tasked with fulfilling the owner's vision of sustainable yet affordable housing space in Santa Fe, N.M.
Las Vegas might be known for the phrase, "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas," but it's what doesn't typically happen in the city—natural disasters—that made it attractive to Cobalt Data Centers.
Most construction projects are done on aggressive schedules. With an owner needing to occupy the structure in just 12 months from the start of design-build, the Northern Arizona Real Estate Holdings Office Building, located on a site near the edge of the Northern Arizona University campus in Flagstaff required an especially fast-track delivery.
The Arizona State University Student Center project is an adaptive reuse of a building that opened in 1936 in what was then the outskirts of downtown Phoenix.
In June 2010, the Schultz fire tore through northern Arizona, charring more than 15,000 acres, forcing the closure of several monuments and leading to the evacuation of hundreds of homes.
For more than 45 years, the city of Albuquerque had two high school athletic stadiums. But as the area and district has matured with the addition of two new high schools since Milne and Wilson stadiums were built, scheduling events and overuse took a toll.
Before the completion of the $5.4-million Bear Canyon Arroyo bicycle and pedestrian bridge, Albuquerque did not have a dedicated crossing over Interstate 25 for non-motorized traffic in the northern half of the city, and the arterial streets crossing I-25 at the interchanges were not particularly bicycle-friendly or safe.
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