Two Florida state representatives have filed legislation aimed at ending the state’s practice of authorizing advanced cost recovery related to nuclear and integrated gasification combined-cycle powerplants.
When contractors demolished Alachua General Hospital in 2010, the Gainesville Community Redevelopment Agency, the University of Florida and the city of Gainesville worked to create a vision for the 16-acre property, which is located between the university’s main campus and downtown.
When Florida Hospital-Tampa embarked on a $53.7-million project to add a larger 91,000-sq-ft emergency department, the hospital hired Robins & Morton, which had recently delivered another nearby facility for the owner.
Two independent sources with knowledge of the investigation into the Oct. 10 collapse of a parking garage at Miami Dade College have refuted a claim reported by Engineering News-Record that the structure was struck a second time by a crane pick just prior to the fatal incident.
Hopes are high that a July 18 hearing in U.S. District Court in Miami will ratify the Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection's permit and associated projects to improve water quality in the Everglades.
Under a settlement agreement reached on Jan. 20, the state of Florida will cease to oppose Progress Energy's plans to proceed with roughly $1 billion in repair work at its damaged Crystal River Nuclear Unit 3 in return for millions of dollars in refunds to customers and restrictions on funding for a proposed $20-billion nuclear plant.
