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States Face Transportation Funding Gaps

State agencies are finding ways to cope with $900 million less than expected in fiscal 2017 highway aid

March 8, 2017

While top state transportation officials look and listen for hints about President Trump’s promised, still unreleased infrastructure plan, they are working to cope with more-immediate funding issues.

Too High Bids Force Alabama Bridges Rebid

March 1, 2017

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Submissions were at least $150 million over estimates, says DOT director.

Best of the Best 2016

Highway/Bridge: CDOT Twin Tunnels Expansion Program CMGC

March 1, 2017

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On the first major construction job in decades along a busy stretch of Interstate 70, the project team expanded two highway tunnels, added an eastbound freeway lane and provided for future westbound capacity.

Best of the Best 2016

Airport/Transit: Number 7 Subway Line Extension

March 1, 2017

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The $2.4-billion, 1.5-mile No. 7 Subway Line Extension Project in Manhattan is the nation’s first of its kind to feature no federal funding as well as the innovative use of ground freezing in a 300-ft stretch for tunnel boring.

Best of the Best 2016

Energy/Industrial: Elk Station 2 & 3

March 1, 2017

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TIC in April 2016 completed Elk Station 2 & 3 for Golden Spread Electric Cooperative, near Abernathy, Texas.

Sanctuary Cities Push Back on Trump Order to Withhold US Project Funds

Mary B. Powers

March 1, 2017

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Scores of “sanctuary” cities, counties and states for undocumented immigrants are vowing to defy President Donald Trump’s executive order, issued last month, that threatens to block their federal funding.

Israel to Build $1.6B Light Rail from Haifa to Nazareth

March 1, 2017

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Israel has provisionally approved construction of a 43-kilometer, Haifa-to-Nazareth light-rail line, an estimated $2.6-billion project set for completion in 2023.

Design-Build-Finance Contracts

Three Teams Shortlisted for New Toronto Rail Tunnel

Canada, U.S. contenders vie for design-build-finance project

Scott Van Voorhis

March 1, 2017

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Canada, U.S. contenders vie for design-build-finance project.

Construction Methods

Structural Failure of Precast-Concrete Span Sets Back Sydney Metro Job

Detailed forensic analysis criticizes techniques used in segment grouting

Chris Webb

February 24, 2017

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An independent report cites faulty stitching and grouting process.

Transportation

Toll Road in Uganda Secures Funding

EU, IFC, African Development Bank commit $400 million

Shem Oirere

February 23, 2017

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International lending agencies and the Uganda National Roads Agency putting funding in place for a $1.1-billion that would ease the flow of freight from landlocked Rwanda to the Kenyan port of Mombasa.