This 1969 image depicts a 12-story concrete core for an office building in Vancouver, Canada, that was one of the earliest examples of top-down construction.
The Iona Island Wastewater Treatment Plant
project will expand the plant to meet projected population growth as well as protect it against earthquakes and sea level rise.
Oregon and Washington continue the joint effort in restarting -- yet again -- discussions focused on replacing the aging Interstate Bride over the Columbia River, the Interstate 5 crossing that links the two Pacific Northwest states.
Vancouver's original SkyTrain line -- Expo Line -- took another step toward making a proposed extension happen when the Mayor's Council supported a business case to extend the light rapid transit system from Surrey to Langley as part of a 10-mile extension.
The constant political back-and-forth in British Columbia, Canada, over how to deal with an aging George Massey Tunnel has ping-ponged from uncertainty to a $3.5 billion, 10-lane bridge, back to uncertainty, to no bridge and now to an eight-lane submerged tunnel.
