Three years’ worth of work in progress on a planned $13-billion airport for Mexico City were put at risk in the wake of the president-elect’s announcement that he would scrap the project after voters rejected it in a four-day referendum late last month.
Delays in reopening traffic lanes following an overnight resurfacing project in the Cleveland area have earned Kokosing Construction Co. a $12,800 fine from the Ohio Dept. of Transportation.
The team of Superior Construction Co. and WSP has been selected for the $90-million design-build replacement of the Interstate 20 bridges spanning the Augusta Canal and Savannah River on the Georgia-South Carolina border.
Overland Park, Kan.-based engineering firm Black & Veatch released a feasibility study Oct. 17 that said building a hyperloop transportation system along the 1-70 corridor—connecting the cities of St. Louis; Columbia, Mo.; and Kansas City—would be buildable and commercially viable and could cut travel times by three hours and generate $410 million in economic development locally.
The damage to North Carolina’s business and infrastructure from Hurricane Florence in early September is estimated at $12.7 billion, according to a report from the governor’s office, and the tally is climbing still.