McGraw-Hill Construction has launched the new Dodge Momentum Index, which is designed to be an accurate indicator of future construction put-in-place data published by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce. In designing the new index, MHC looked at over a decade of monthly data and discovered that Dodge's planning figures can predict non-residential building put-in-place 12 month ahead with a 91% accuracy rate. Since last July, the index has trended up in all but two months.
The Oregon Dept. of Transportation's new plans for the state's historically plagued $217-million U.S. 20 project will focus on culverts as the only viable way to deal with chronic issues of unstable soils and shifting bridge bents.
Related Links: Abu Dhabi Ambition Kohn Pederson Fox Associates The on-and-off pace of development in Abu Dhabi has picked up momentum this year, following the announcement of which marquee projects are priorities in the current economic climate. One of those marquee projects is the planned midfield terminal at Abu Dhabi International Airport; the construction team will be officially confirmed soon.The $6.8-billion, 700,000-sq-meter building is expected to open in 2017. The project is part of an overall airport expansion, which includes additional gates, expansion of a security screening area for connecting passengers in Terminal 3 and a new arrivals terminal in
Crews are driving soil nails into an East Tennessee hillside to stabilize land around a section of Interstate 75 after a massive slide took out southbound lanes, which could be closed all summer.Elmo Greer & Sons LLC, East Bernstadt, Ky., already had crews on-site when the slide occurred on May 8. The contractor was repairing damage to the highway after a section of embankment collapsed on March 8.Greer’s $9.3-million contract, awarded
In response to the dramatic growth of Panama City in recent years—along with severe traffic congestion—a design-build team is constructing a 14-kilometer, $1.8-billion light-rail line that will be the first of its kind in Central America.
As part of its billion-dollar effort to expand its national rail network, Israel will seek global interest later this year and in 2013 on two design-build contracts for key rail projects in the country’s northern region, its most populous.State-owned Israel National Roads Co., which oversees the country’s overall rail expansion, will manage the planned procurement of the two lines, totaling about $150 million.
Plans by Egypt to embrace Japanese high-speed-rail technology moved closer to becoming a reality in March after the North African country signed a loan agreement with Japan for the construction of a new $1.2-billion metro line in Cairo. The loan agreement for $400 million, which is the first portion to be channeled through the Japanese International Cooperation Agency, will enable Egypt to start phase-one construction in September of the metro's Line 4 as the new government moves to address chronic traffic chaos in Africa’s largest city.
Massachusetts joins the growing ranks of states that are using self-propelled modular transporters to rapidly replace bridges. Photo By Stephen Setteducati The first phase of the project includes three bridge replacements. Related Links: Utah Moves On Down the Road Did Someone Order an Instant Bridge? Massachusetts is following the lead of other states and embracing accelerated bridge construction, or ABC, using the method not only for highway spans but also for rail structures in Boston's Fairmont Corridor project.
As deficit worries press the U.S. federal government to cut its infrastructure funding, states and localities are filling some of the gap by getting more active in advancing public-works projects, says a new report on infrastructure trends.The study, released on May 9 by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and consulting firm Ernst & Young LLP, points to a variety of U.S. state and local infrastructure initiatives, such as a Los Angeles ballot measure that voters approved in 2008 that aims to provide $40 billion for transportation projects.
A rare 'turbine' configuration features sweeping ramps that should be easier to build and maintain than those in standard stacked interchanges. Related Links: More ENR Transportation News The upgrade of the existing Interstate 85/485 interchange near Charlotte, N.C., is proof that a bigger design can actually mean bigger savings.Part of the North Carolina Dept. of Transportation's (NCDOT) program to fill the last six-mile gap in the 65-mile I-485 outer loop around Charlotte, the interchange uses a two-level "turbine" configuration rarely found in the U.S.
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