When Pranaya Shrestha’s father immigrated to the United States from Nepal in 1976, he sacrificed a prestigious government position and worked seven days a week operating a grocery store in Minnesota.
The John Jordan “Buck” O’Neil Memorial Bridge has been a vital pathway in and out of downtown Kansas City, Mo., since 1956, when it opened as the Broadway Bridge.
To help ease congestion across Lake Washington, this $3.6-billion project is the region’s first east-to-west high-capacity transit option, connecting Sound Transit’s Link light rail line from Seattle to Puget Sound’s east side.
Situated on the Pend Oreille River north of the Metaline Falls in Washington state is Boundary Dam, a 340-ft-tall concrete arch hydroelectric dam first built in 1967 that can generate 1,117 MW of power.
The only network tied arch bridge in the world with an S-curved deck serves pedestrians crossing over the busy eight-lane U.S. 75 and its frontage roads.
As Clemson University’s student ratio shifted to a majority female population, the university introduced two new women’s sports programs: lacrosse and gymnastics.
From the day it broke ground in September 2019 to its grand opening exactly four years later, the Brightline passenger railroad’s 170-mile extension from West Palm Beach to Orlando has been a novel, even audacious undertaking.
In early March, contractor KDC topped off the 850,000-sq-ft state-of-the-art campus in Iving, Texas, for financial giant Wells Fargo—the firm’s first net-positive energy office complex in the U.S.
A workhorse with showhorse trappings as well, the $289-million Sixth Street Viaduct in Los Angeles features a series of technical innovations that sets a new threshold for seismic safety.