In the early morning hours of Feb. 9, heavy rainfall and a high tide combined to knock off line Seattle’s 52-year-old West Point wastewater treatment plant.
As the federal FAST Act tolling program moves forward, Oregon believes it can pounce on an open window to enter into an early phase of the program and bring tolling to Oregon as a way to upgrade interstates in the Portland area.
Even as crews work to solve engineering quandaries associated with building the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant project in southeast Washington at the Dept. of Energy’s Hanford Nuclear Waste Site, work continues on tearing out the old facilities.
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.
