Infrastructure agency chiefs need new ways to keep coastal and urban structures, critical bridge crossings and even public sector diversity programs hardened against growing climate change and human-caused risks, they told an ENR conference in Manhattan on Sept. 16.
The design-build team of Clark Construction Group and SmithGroup + HKS Joint Venture broke ground in August on the El Paso VA Health Care Center at Fort Bliss, Texas.
The Giant Magellan Telescope will be one of the world's most advanced ground-based telescopes once completed, but for now the challenge is to turn the finalized design for its rotating enclosure into a buildable reality.
PCL Construction is soon to complete the $149-million 16th Street Mall makeover project in downtown Denver, part of a $937-million spending package to elevate infrastructure across the city.
Project goals can be a moving target amid intensifying inflation, climate change and supply chain disruptions roiling the global marketplace, say this year’s Top 225 International Design Firms.
Planned 205,000-sq-ft, three-story building would replace training center built in 1990 on a 26-acre campus in Englewood, Colo., according to the team.
With multiplying effects of more frequent and intense storms, infrastructure investments—despite recent historic funding—must take into account how to get the most bang for the buck, say climate change experts.