While the saga of the tunnel-boring machine dubbed “Bertha” has dominated headlines, another controversial but crucial project is progressing right next to the Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement work.
Northwest Roundup: News items include a drop in female construction employment in Alaska, Portland public transportation improvements, Construction Safety Week and more.
According to the city of Spokane, Wash., the $125 million upgrade to the Riverside Park Water Reclamation Facility will create the most effective phosphate removal process of its kind in the U.S.
Notable news items include the President budgeting $600 million for projects in Washington and Oregon, progress on Amazon’s new Seattle campus, Alaska’s construction spending outlook, and more.
Confronting a spaghetti bowl of roads in and out of SeaTac International Airport, south of Seattle, owner Sound Transit opted for its first-ever turnkey design-build contract to better integrate civil, structural, station and system components of a new light-rail system extension that will serve the airport.
Maybe the restart of the world’s largest tunnel-boring machine will come as a Christmas present to the folks in Seattle, as the scheduled boring by “Bertha,” the 57.5-ft-dia machine currently sitting idle under downtown
