PCL Construction secures a $42-million progressive design-build contract to expand San Diego's South Bay International Wastewater Treatment plant, the first contract in an overall $600 million project to treat wastewater flows that have been crossing the border with Mexico since 2022.
After he became a go-to transportation project leader in Southern California, John Rinard made his way around the globe, building projects in South Korea, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the Philippines and Australia.
Tunneling through an urban environment like that of Los Angeles is complex enough. Add to that a medley of poor soils (including tar pits); a variety of dangerous gases; and two seismic faults and it becomes a task that until not so long ago was impossible.
All work associated with removal of the first of four hydroelectric dams slated for demolition on the Klamath River in California and Oregon has been completed by contractor Kiewit, said dam owner Klamath River Renewal Corp. earlier this month.