After more than 100 gate docking and undocking operations across more than 45 years, Concrete Tech Corp.’s Tacoma dry dock was in need of a replacement caisson gate, a 150-ft-long floating concrete structure that serves as a watertight lock at the dry dock entrance.
Not only is Interstate 405 one of the busiest highways in the nation, but the 16-mile section of it in Orange County, Calif., runs through nine cities or communities and at an angle through the urban landscape.
Aiming for an economic boost as part of China’s anticipated Silk Road corridor to Europe, the republic of Georgia has picked a local-U.S. joint venture, backed by global investors, to develop a $2.5-billion deep-sea port at Anaklia on the Black Sea.
