Related Links: Storm Surge Switches the Grid to 'Off' New York Ponders Plan For Next Storm Prices for Windstorm Coverage May Not Be Changed Structural Damage Assessors Decide Whether Storm-Damaged Houses Can Be Entered With NYC Tower Crane Secure, Plan Shifts To Recovery Ten days after Superstorm Sandy—a deadly, devastating late-season weather system—made landfal, construction industry participants from across the country joined overwhelmed public officials to restore crippled infrastructure and reshape an altered landscape in New York, New Jersey and nearby states.Crews also were dealing with as many as 300,000 new customer outages in the wake of a Nov. 7
New York State officials have apparently selected a Fluor Corp.-led team to continue negotiations for the contract to design and build the replacement Tappan Zee Bridge across the Hudson River, an estimated $5.2 billion-contract, according to several industry sources close to the competition and a published report.
Related Links: Corps Rebids Protested Flood Control Project, With Changes Seattle-Based Construction Attorney Robynne Thaxton Parkinson's Analysis of Dispute Two weeks after the Corps of Engineers re-awarded the contract to build a massive permanent flood-control structure in New Orleans, the job's procurement nightmare goes on.The latest chapter follows 18 months of bid protests, a court challenge and a forced rebid.Bechtel Infrastructure and CDM Smith-led CBY Design-Builders, losing bidders to PCCP Constructors, a Kiewit-led team that won the $629.5-million contract on Sept. 29, protested the re-award to the U.S. Government Accountability Office on Oct. 15.The protests by Kiewit and Bechtel started
Related Links: McGraw-Hill Forecasts 6% Construction Increase in 2013 EFCG Inc. Website Economys Woes Are Chief CEO Concern in 2008 Engineering firms are optimistic about growth in 2013, but their CEOs say big business risks ahead could well impact whether they achieve rosy projections of a 6.9% average boost in revenue and a record 12.2% profit margin.Nearly 275 company leaders convened in New York City on Oct. 17 and 18 to share views on next year’s business outlook and provide a reality check to earlier results they provided in an annual survey of global market trends. The conference and the
. In time to recognize Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, the color-appropriate steel frame goes up on a 132,000-sq-ft medical clinic in Springfield, Ill. Photos courtesy of Harold O'Shea Builders Project ironworkers were among those participating when the community gathered at the building site to acknowledge the breast cancer fight. Related Links: Pink Steel Campaign with fabrication video With the creative use of some colorful materials on a $61-million medical-center building under way in Springfield, Ill., the project's locally based team is driving home a client’s message.To recognize Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October and the resilience needed to
Photo Courtesy of Roadway Worker Training Inc. Plane piloted by Crisafi (right) crashed Oct. 3, killing him and construction business associate Vaccarello in Gary, Ind. Related Links: Website of All-Railroad Services Corp. (Vaccarello) Website of Roadway Worker Training Inc. (Crisafi) Online obituary for Patsy Crisafi Federal investigators are continuing a probe into the crash of a private plane on Oct. 3 near Gary, Ind., that killed two Florida-based veteran rail construction executives, one of them the pilot. But a preliminary report offers few clues to the cause of the accident.Killed were Patsy J. "PJ" Crisafi, 48, co-founder and executive vice
Illustration by Alex Nabum Related Links: Point-Counterpoint: Gauging the 'Raise the Bar' Debate ASCE's Raise the Bar Website ASMEs Licensing that Works Website More from Education Report: Washington Contractor Leads State STEM Push More from Education Report: Tennessee Engineer Boosts Students' Prospects More from Education Report: Engineering Academies' First High School Grads More from Education Report: Plug-In Cars Charge Infrastructure Training More from Education Report: Students and Industry Design Tomorrow's Tools Six years after the nation's umbrella engineering licensing body embraced a so-called Model Rule that would extend by 30 the number of extra credit-hours BS-degreed engineers must have to
Photo Courtesy of Coal Creek Watershed Foundation Earn and learn Students aid Thacker (front, right) in Coal Creek flood work. Scholarships require community service and mentoring. Photo Courtesy of Coal Creek Watershed Foundation Students boost reading with school's foundation-run incentive effort. Related Links: Coal Creek Watershed Foundation Engineering Community's Licensing Debate a Lesson in Degrees of Separation Washington Subcontractor Leads State Push on STEM Engineering Academies' First High-School Grads Plug-In Car Infrastructure Gives Training a Big Charge Auburn Students Work With Industry to Design Tomorrow's Tools Kyle Leinart, a civil engineering student at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is dreaming