When the Utah Dept. of Transportation launched, in 2000, its $1.5-billion project to widen Interstate 15 through Salt Lake City, the agency opted for a delivery method called design-build, which was relatively rare at the time.
Ports and inland waterways need an additional $6 billion to deepen harbors and overhaul river locks through 2020, says a new American Society of Civil Engineers report.
India has an ambitious goal to spend $1 trillion on infrastructure over the next five years, but the country's high interest rates, growing public debt and ongoing policy issues threaten to put the brakes on foreign investments.
Indiana and Kentucky could award $2.6 billion worth of design-build contracts by December for two cable-stay bridges across the Ohio River in downtown Louisville and in bistate suburbs.
Ultimately, eight years of planning all came down to eight hours and about 700 ft—the distance traveled by a nearly 400-ft-long, 4.3-million-lb railroad truss on four self-propelled modular transporters, or SPMTs, during the last Saturday of August in Chicago.
A booming economy fueled by growing tourism numbers and commodity trade volumes has spurred a flurry of airport construction in Africa, with at least four major projects currently under way.
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