Items Tagged with 'National Park Service'

Faced with recent major breaks to the Transcanyon Waterline (TCWL), the National Park Service (NPS) and contractor Stronghold Engineering Inc. have accelerated work across multiple locations on the $208-million replacement project at Grand Canyon National Park.

Contract is part of a larger project to double track capacity crossing the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., addressing a key chokepoint for the heavily used passenger rail corridor.

CPI Foundation summer training program on Alcatraz Island summer program is among those that have launched several potential construction careers.

In 1968, the Whitehill Report on Professional and Public Education for Historic Preservation raised concerns about a dearth of tradespeople qualified in historic preservation work.

Rebuilding the walls, which date to the late 1800s and early 1900s, would better protect areas along the Potomac River and Tidal Basin against water-level rise and storm surge.

As the inventory of existing buildings continues to grow in the U.S., leaders in the historic preservation community are sounding the alarm that the construction industry is in dire need of workers with historic trades training.

Under a $5.7-million task order from the National Park Service, a team of HDR and Moffatt & Nichol is working on design and other early-stage work for an initial segment of the project.

Caltrans is preparing to break ground on a massive wildlife crossing that will span 10 lanes across the busy 101 Freeway in western Los Angeles County.