Related Links: Denver International Airport Launches South Terminal Redevelopment Program City of Denver Selected as ENR Mountain States' Owner of the Year Denver International Airport is suing the city's Regional Transportation District to recover $53 million in costs for contracted work on the airport's Hotel and Transit Center Project, still under construction. Airport officials filed the lawsuit after a mediator refused to grant DIA the full amount from RTD. The money would be used to pay for site excavation, roadways, train-platform construction and other infrastructure work at the airport terminal. Both agencies say the other one should pay for the
Photo courtesy Walsh Austin The 1.2-million-sq-ft replacement terminal is said to be the largest public works project in Los Angeles history. Related Links: 2013 Best of the Best Projects Winners Team Pilots Safe Delivery Of LAX Global Gateway Coordinating the $1.3-billion replacement terminal at LAX—the largest public-works project ever in the city of Los Angeles—was "like working on your car while it was driving 60 miles per hour down the freeway," says Jimmy Cole, senior project manager for Walsh Austin Joint Venture.The job, which kicked off in February 2010 and wrapped up December 2012, was turned over in six phases
Photo Courtesy of Caltrans Work to correct defects at the Bay Bridge included installation of saddle braces to replace the clamping force of broken bolts. Related Links: Temporary Fix Allows San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to Open on Time Repairs on Broken Bay Bridge Rods Could Prove Tricky The California Dept. of Transportation is in the hot seat over allegations of cover-ups and faulty components on the new $6.4-billion San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The agency's management was grilled at a state Senate hearing on Jan. 24. To add fuel to the fire, an independent report on Jan. 30 prescribes a need
Related Links: NAPA Website Asphalt Producers Warm To New Mix Technologies Warm-mix asphalt (WMA) and recycled materials in asphalt (RAP) are the hot ticket on road projects, according to results of a survey by the National Asphalt Pavement Association under contract to the Federal Highway Administration. A survey of 1,141 U.S. asphalt plants found that they produced about 86.7 million tons of WMA during 2012 construction—almost a quarter of all asphalt mixes. This marks a 416% increase since a 2009 survey.Conducted in mid-2013 and released on Jan. 29, the study also found that about 68.3 million tons of RAP and
Photo by Nicholas Zeman/ENR Work continues on new crossing in Long Beach, Calif., as heads roll. Related Links: http://enr.construction.com/infrastructure/transportation/2012/1231-long-beachs-long-term-view.asp http://enr.construction.com/infrastructure/transportation/2012/1231-long-beachs-long-term-view.asp A major port improvement program in Long Beach, Calif., is struggling in stormy waters amid personnel upheavals and the recent repeal of a cargo fee meant to help fund more than $4 billion in road, rail, environmental and dredging construction projects.Scores of contractors are in the midst of billions of dollars' worth of work, including the new Gerald Desmond Bridge on which site-prep complications added $136 million to its $1-billion price tag. Also, the $1.2-billion Middle Harbor project estimate recently
Related Links: U.K.'s High Hopes For HS 2.0 The construction of tunnels and stations beneath central London as part of a $24-billion Crossrail project has hit the halfway mark on time and budget. The successes are feeding into ongoing planning for over $60 billion worth of high-speed rail."The industry is enjoying a renaissance and a reputation for delivering these projects on time and cost [to] a very, very high quality," says Andrew Wolstenholme, chief executive officer of Crossrail Ltd. (CRL), the city's project owner. Noting lessons learned on construction for the London Olympics in 2012, the Heathrow airport's Terminal Five
Related Links: U.K. Crossrail Project Hits Halfway Mark With a price tag of around $66 billion, the U.K.'s next high-speed-rail project is pressuring engineers to minimize costs while maintaining quality. As they prepare to procure the $28.1-billion first phase between London and Birmingham, officials are urging the international construction community to bring innovative ideas to the 10-year program.MCNAUGHTON"Here is a stream of work that gives you the incentive to invest in techniques, construction equipment and in skills of people at all levels," says Andrew McNaughton, technical director of High Speed 2 Ltd, the government's project company. "Things like tunneling have
Related Links: Shale Plays Pump Up Pipeline Sector Bakken Shale Field Pushing East Coast Rail Terminal Projects Some are calling for the progress of pipeline projects in the aftermath of the Dec. 30 derailment and explosion of a Burlington Northern Sante Fe freight train carrying crude oil from the Bakken shale formation through Casselton, N.D. It was the fourth such incident in North America in 2013.In October, the Fraser Institute, a public-policy think tank in Calgary, Alberta, released a report titled "Intermodal Transport in the Safety of Oil," written by Kenneth Green. "Truck and rail have a higher rate of
Related Links: Steel Pipe Found Stuck in Bertha's Cutterhead When North America's largest tunnel-boring machine pushed a 50-ft-long, 8-in.-dia steel pipe seven feet out of the ground on Dec. 3, joint-venture contractor Seattle Tunnel Partners and Washington State Dept. of Transportation officials didn't think much of it."Bertha," the 57.5-ft-dia machine, kept churning its state Route 99 tunnel path below Seattle at faster-than-predicted paces. But only for three more days.Now, that pipe—a well casing put in place in 2002 to measure groundwater movement following the 2001 Nisqually earthquake, the very same earthquake that serves as the catalyst for Bertha boring a
Related Links: African Airport Work Poised for Takeoff Court Ruling Endangers Start of Stalled 53-km Serengeti Road Project More than a year after its originally planned start of construction, Kenyan officials broke ground this past November on the $650-million Greenfield Terminal project at Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi, Kenya. Two Chinese contractors, Anhui Civil Engineering Group (ACEG) and China Aero Technology Engineering International Corp., will lead the construction of the 178,000-sq-meter terminal, designed by Pascall+Watson of London.Lucy Mbugua, acting managing director with project owner Kenya Airports Authority (KAA), said the new terminal will "increase the [airport's] suppressed
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