Ethiopia has begun generating electricity at its new 5,000-MW roller-compacted concrete gravity-type dam on the Nile River. The first 375 MW went to the national grid on Feb. 20.
Interior Dept. says prior administration's environmental analysis of the Ambler mine access road across national park and federally managed land had “significant deficiencies.”
Ongoing labor dispute between King County, Wash., concrete suppliers and drivers represented by Teamsters Local 174 that has reduced or halted deliveries now is delaying Seattle-area projects such as multiple Sound Transit extensions and Washington State Convention Center addition.
Federal agency alleges Kansas City failed to properly track minority- and women-owned businesses on $1.5-billion international airport terminal project.
The placement of the second of two pedestrian bridges 60 ft above an active airfield last month marked the final piece of significant construction for the new $5.1-billion Terminal B at LaGuardia International Airport.
The nearly 1.4-million-sq-ft 200 Park high-rise in San José, Calif., though only 300 ft tall, has taken Seattle’s 850-ft-tall proof of concept for SpeedCore—a novel modular steel-plate shear-wall sandwich system—to new heights.