Related Links: Edmonton Bridge Contractors Straighten Buckled Girders Story and Slide Show: Girders Give Edmonton Bridge Team Big Headache Steel girder sections that deflected during construction of an Edmonton, Alberta, bridge are being shipped back to the project's locally based fabricator and erector, Supreme Steel.A structural engineering team will then decide whether the girder sections on the bridge at 102 Avenue over Groat Road must be repaired or replaced entirely, city transportation officials said in a press statement.Sections of four girders suddenly underwent torsional lateral buckling, three by several feet, in the early morning hours of March 16, after they
Photo Courtesy Dan McNichol Related Links: Restoring a 1949 Hudson To Get It on the Road Again: A Slide Show Low and Slow Across America's Infrastructure Infrastructure Megaprojects: Looking For Legacies "Go low and slow, dude," suggested a man from Los Angeles, referring to my 1949 lead sled, a Detroit original. I was in Big Sur on the Pacific Coast Highway, in 2014, circumnavigating America to explore the nation’s infrastructure. As I headed south to L.A. on the last leg of my 14,000-mile journey, the phrase "low and slow" stuck in my craw.In a couple of weeks, Aileen Cho, senior
Related Links: How One Old Car Became a Metaphor for America's Infrastructure Low and Slow Across America's Infrastructure It took quite a bit of work to get "Mrs. Martin," a 1949 Hudson Commodore, from curious eBay listing to cross-country driving machine. Author Dan McNichol and his mechanic Dr. Per Christiansen—"The Hudson Whisperer"—restored the car to working order so it may serve as a rolling metaphor for America's aging infrastructure. Click the image to begin the slide show.
Enlarge The proposed route across America's infrastructure. Click to enlarge. Related Links: Low and Slow Across America's Infrastructure: An ENR Special Report Two strangers get into a 65-year-old car and set off across the U.S., looking for projects, plows and professionals dedicated to our nation’s infrastructure. This is what happens when two transportation infrastructure writers who’d never met, talk for an hour on the phone: Low and Slow Across America’s Infrastructure.ENR’s senior transportation editor Aileen Cho and author Dan McNichol are setting off in mid-May on a real-time documentary "road trip" in a vintage 1949 Hudson automobile that symbolizes the
Related Links: U.S. Engineering Firms Land Big Contracts In Qatar Qatar, CH2M Hill Advance Nations $4-Billion 2022 Soccer World Cup Program Global contractors, especially from China and France, are making the most of Qatar’s prodigious investment in infrastructure development. The emirate, which will host the FIFA World Cup in 2022, is spending $182 billion over the next five years. Major projects on hand include the completion of Hamad International Airport, the New Doha Port project, railway and metro projects and roads.The 26-square-kilometer New Port Project is being built in phases, with the first phase scheduled to for completion in 2016.
Related Links: Viewpoint: Vietnam, Indonesia Hold Opportunity for U.S. Infrastructure Firms Indonesia Announces Major Power Projects To Meet Growing Demand In a little more than 18 months, Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, has become unrecognizable as the $1.8-billion Mass Rapid Transit project continues to cut a deep scar across the city. With 13 stations—seven elevated, six underground—along with a rail depot, the project features the construction of both cut-and-cover and bored tunnels, the latter using tunnel boring machines (TBMs) where space restricts deep excavations. With deep secant pile support and precast segmental pre-stressed viaducts also a feature, the project brings to Indonesia
photo by JUDY LABENSOHN New highway will soon connect to Motza interchange in Jerusalem that now is under construction. Israel’s Finance and Transport Ministries have issued a pre-qualifying tender for the construction of a second major access highway at the entrance to Jerusalem, an expected $380-million project.The public-private partnership tender is for the 5 km-long Highway 16 that will link the Motza interchange on Highway 1 between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to the Givat Shaul/Begin Highway (Highway 50) interchange. The project, set to take three years to complete, is designed to substantially ease traffic at the sole entrance to Jerusalem
Related Links: AAPA State of Freight report (04/21/2015) U.S. ports say they need $28.9 billion in upgrades to roads, rail, bridge and tunnel links over the next 10 years to handle the heavy volume of freight they expect, according to a new American Association of Port Authorities report.The AAPA State of Freight survey, whose results were released on April 21, says, “Investment in America’s port-connection infrastructure is a critical national priority.”AAPA says that, from 2000 to 2013, the container volume that moved through U.S. ports rose by about 50%, to 44.6 million 20-ft equivalent units, increasing the load on their
Photo Courtesy of TTC A $2.5-billion subway extension is facing at least two years of delay. Related Links: Ten Drives, Four TBMs Build Toronto Subway Extension TTC Report The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), seeking to minimize existing schedule overruns, has entered into an $80-million sole-source management agreement with Bechtel Canada for the remainder of the $2.5-billion Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension (TYSSE), which will provide an 8.6- kilometer link between the city of Toronto and its neighboring authority, the Regional Municipality of York.In March, Sameh Ghaly, TTC chief capital officer, and Andy Bertolo, chief project manager, were axed. Then, the city
Related Links: Virginia Investigates Controversial I-460 Toll Road Plan VDOT Statement on Termination of Route 460 Contract The short, troubled life of the U.S. Route 460 Corridor Improvements project apparently has ended. The Virginia Dept. of Transportation this month announced that it will terminate its $1.4-billion design-build contract with US Mobility Partners to build the 55-mile limited-access highway in southeast Virginia.LAYNE"The Commonwealth has determined it is in the taxpayers' best interest to terminate the contract," said state Transportation Secretary Aubrey Layne in a statement. VDOT's attempts to work with the team on a revised version of the project "proved unsuccessful."
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