Items Tagged with 'Vermont'

Karina Dailey understands the devastating impacts of Vermont’s historic 2023 flooding as well as anyone.

Eight years of collaboration between Vermont environmental and transportation agencies and the Massachusetts Dept. of Transportation has helped Massachusetts improve engineering practices to make culverts, bridges and other infrastructure more storm resilient.

Following a pandemic-related work stoppage that also forced a 25% reduction in the project scope, the team relaunched the upgrade with a sequenced retrofit by installing detailed and complex steel reinforcements to the hockey arena’s barreled roof and adding a new media loft.

Wisconsin governor called FEMA's denial of aid "disappointing and short-sighted."

Following a week of tree and vegetation clearing, crews of four to seven workers recently finished demolishing concrete at the top of a large century-old dam in West Rutland, Vt.

The master-planned residential community at Killington Ski Resort in Killington, Vt., is called LiveKillington.

Perched at an elevation of 3,620 ft near the top of Saddleback Mountain, the 2,500-sq-ft restaurant complements the popular year-round resort by offering a unique dining experience, plus a wintertime ski-up service window.

The $75-million project restores the grandeur of Vermont’s only remaining movable bridge—a 60-year-old twin-leaf bascule structure that had exceeded its useful life. <

Following Vermont’s record flash flooding last July 10-11 that killed two people and caused about $682 million in infrastructure damage, Benjamin Heath, civil construction manager at Engineers Construction Inc., received an emergency call from Burlington city officials that a 24-in.-dia sanitary sewer pipe had breached.

Rainstorm brought significant damage in four states, and the death of a New York engineering firm manager.