Articles Tagged with ''infrastructure''

Three Kings water treatment plant is the crowning feature in a $135-million capital improvement program for Park City.

Phil Washington grew up on the South Side of Chicago in public housing with a single mom caring for a family of six. “The people building infrastructure in my community did not look like me,” he says. “I wondered, ‘Why can’t I get a job helping to build my own community?’”

Little did the reserved engineer know as he watched TV images of residents waiting in long lines for bottled water that he would be the one to oversee the massive, multibillion-dollar effort to finally bring the city’s aging and long-neglected water systems into the 21st century.

Following Vermont’s record flash flooding last July 10-11 that killed two people and caused about $682 million in infrastructure damage, Benjamin Heath, civil construction manager at Engineers Construction Inc., received an emergency call from Burlington city officials that a 24-in.-dia sanitary sewer pipe had breached.

One of Rhode Island's busiest bridges has been closed due to structural degradation.

An official groundbreaking held Nov. 1 kicked off a 12.37-megawatt solar carport and energy storage system project at Six Flags Magic Mountain, representing the largest single-site commercial renewable energy project in California and the largest U.S. solar project allocated toward a for-profit organization.

Bouygues Bâtiment International, a subsidiary of Bouygues Construction, and partner Intrakat, broke ground recently on the Riviera Tower, a $360-million residential tower in Athens, Greece.

A flat muskeg maze-like landscape laced with ponds and streams isolated Whatì—a remote settlement of the Tłı̨chǫ First Nations people in Canada’s Northwest Territories—for much of the year.

California agencies with tens of billions of dollars of construction joined more than 40 other groups in a movement to drive contracting opportunities for historically underutilized businesses.

The Biden administration’s Federal Sustainability Plan, announced in April, will require all agencies to transition to light-duty electric vehicles by 2027 and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicles by 2035.