Lifting away contaminated portions of the Hanford Nuclear Waste Site’s Plutonium Finishing Plant requires cranes to remove the largest pieces of equipment, dubbed glove boxes.
As the Oak View Group (OVG) and former Seattle Mayor Ed Murray negotiated a memorandum of understanding on a $600 million privately financed renovation of Key Arena at Seattle Center, OVG agreed to an additional $40 million for transportation mitigation around Seattle Center.
A new political leadership for British Columbia means a new direction for a multi-billion-dollar project to replace the aging George Massey Tunnel between Delta and Richmond south of Vancouver, B.C.
Calgary city officials have given the Green Line light rail project formal approval, giving the project a way forward into the start of pre-construction in late 2017 and 2018.
For four years, Bertha, once the world’s largest tunnel-boring machine, came packed not only with 57.5-ft worth of diameter and over 8,000 tons of girth, but never-ending drama.
While the State Route 520 floating bridge connecting Seattle to points east over Lake Washington may have opened in spring 2016, it didn’t mark the full completion of the project off the water.
When Seattle looked to rebuild its 100-year-old Elliott Bay seawall in the downtown, planners knew it had to be stronger and better, but it didn’t necessarily have to be taller.
As we move closer to the 2019 milestone of opening the new State Route 99 tunnel under downtown Seattle, officials can start making plans for removal of the aging Alaskan Way Viaduct, the entire reason the new 1.7-mile tunnel was conceived originally.
