Hampton Roads Connector Partners (HRCP)—a design-build joint venture of Dragados USA, Vinci, Dodin Campenon Bernard and Flatiron Constructors—has the go-ahead to begin the 55-month process of adding twin two-lane tunnels parallel to existing tubes linking Hampton and Norfolk, Va.
After seven years of construction at one of the nation’s busiest port complexes, California’s first vehicular cable-stayed bridge is slated to open to traffic Oct. 5.
The funding, which FHWA announced on Sept. 29, covers disasters dating as far back as the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, and as recent as a bush fire in Arizona in June 20. The federal funds reimburse states and other agencies.
Arizona's infrastructure is badly in need of additional funding, but the state's overall grade of C exceeds the national grade, which ASCE says is a D+.