To get just over a quarter of a mile from the finish of the 1.7-mile-long bored tunnel under downtown Seattle, Bertha had to dig under another State Route 99 tunnel.
In an effort to keep talented women from leaving the engineering firm, PAE created a new paid-leave policy that the firms says is “unique” in the nation’s engineering industry.
In its so-called Fight Plan 2037, Vancouver International Airport identifies 75 projects as part of a 20-year, $5.6-billion improvement plan, which expands everything from terminals to a potential new runway.
Oregon was completely shut out and Washington received one nod, according to the working draft of President Donald Trump’s list of 50 top priority infrastructure projects across the country.
The holiday season provided some rest for Bertha, the tunnel-boring machine roughly three-quarters of the way through its route to bore a new State Route 99 tunnel under downtown Seattle, but that doesn’t mean crews have had it so easy.
The year 2017 shouldn’t have had any major projects slated for the Multnomah County-owned Morrison Bridge in Portland, but the 1958-built bascule bridge spanning the Willamette River will get one much-needed repair to its roadway this year, a completely new lift span deck.
As work moves forward on the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) at the Dept. of Energy’s Hanford Nuclear Waste Site in southeastern Washington, crews have started the final stage of testing intended to resolve one of the remaining technical issues on the project.
As stormwater runs aplenty in Seattle, the act of treating that stormwater before it reaches the streams, rivers and lakes that surround the Pacific Northwest city can help create an official salmon safe designation.
