Despite rough weather, delays, and shifting political winds, crews are pushing toward a mid-2019 completion of the signature Champlain Bridge in Montreal. While the critical link in a major international trade corridor missed its planned Dec. 21 deadline, the final span is being built to last.
With the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s new rule for crane operation taking effect this month, the industry’s response has been less a panic over additional regulation than a sigh of relief for overdue clarifications.
The steel fabricator for the third-floor tapered, built-up plate girders at the troubled Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco is calling for a girder-hanger connection design review as part of the probe into the causes of brittle fractures in bottom flanges of twin 80-ft-long members that bridge Fremont Street.
Tridify, a software technology firm developing automation products for AEC, announced on Dec. 11 a partnership with the virtual reality platform vendor Unity Technologies to leverage a new cloud service, Tridify Convert, that lets developers rapidly import BIM and 3D CAD files into Unity with its Industry Foundation Class-formatted BIM data intact.
Surpassing even the most optimistic expectations of industry observers, sales of construction equipment are on pace to record double-digit growth for 2018, providing welcome momentum in the face of looming uncertainties about the market’s long-term prospects.
Construction costs in some U.S. markets—notably San Francisco, New York City, Seattle and Portland, Ore.—reached up to 6% escalation through 2018 due to tariffs and a stretched labor market
D.C. Metro’s $2.8-billion Silver Line extension, already beset with months of construction delays, is now grappling with more than 400 defective concrete rail ties.
Walsh Construction and Fluor were selected as the design-build joint venture contractor for the first phase of the Chicago Transit Authority’s Red and Purple Modernization program.
Italy’s largest contractor Salini Impregilo S.p.A. and state-controlled shipbuilding giant Fincantieri Infrastructure have won a contract to rebuild the collapsed Polcevera Viaduct in Genoa.
Urban Commons, the company that operates the ocean liner Queen Mary as a tourist attraction and hotel, is planning on developing 65 acres of waterfront property in Long Beach, alongside the ship, into a massive entertainment complex called Urban Adventure Center.