The nation's longest non-vehicular multi-modal bridge, set to open on Sept. 12 across Portland, Ore.'s Willamette River, elevated risk management to a priority early on to help crews overcome unexpected site conditions.
Despite a historic pace for the installation of new railroad signaling and monitoring technologies, U.S. freight and commuter railroads will not meet the Federal Railroad Administration-imposed deadline to equip infrastructure assets with positive train controls (PTCs) by Dec. 31, according to an August report from the agency.
The World Bank estimates that only one-third of the population in sub Saharan Africa living in rural areas is “within two kilometers of an all-season road, compared with two-thirds of the population in other developing regions.
A surge in hydroplane-related wrecks on a recently widened stretch of Interstate 40 has prompted Tennessee Dept. of Transportation officials to meet with representatives of Lane Construction Corp., the design-build contractor, to find a solution.
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Los Angeles, announced a partnership with the Los Angeles design firm AECOM for help constructing a five-mile prototype track to test the principle of the hyperloop: a transit system that shoots passenger-filled capsules at hundreds of miles an hour over long distances through low-pressure tubes.
Pile-driving adjacent to an Interstate 65 bridge near Lafayette, Ind., appears to have started a subterranean chain reaction that left one of the structure's riverbank piers skewed out of alignment, forcing a 37-mile closure of the northbound lanes that could extend into mid-September.
Boskalis After an $8-billion investment and 12 months of construction, Egypt completed the expansion of the Suez Canal, which opened to traffic in early August. Related Links: Egypt Launcehs Suez Canal Expansion Project The Egyptian government and the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) on August 6 inaugurated the newly expanded Suez Canal, part of an overall $8 billion investment designed to increase ship traffic through the international waterway and also encourage new investment in Egypt. The government is hoping to attract new industries and infrastructure to the canal area to a degree that it would create a new international trade entrepot. Egyptian
Courtesy Fukushima FORWARD Submersible foundation for 7-MW offshore turbine was towed to site earlier this year. Related Links: Offshore Wind-Power Prototype Advancing at Fukushima Japan's Government Takes Over the Fukushima Cleanup Weeks before Japan restarted the first nuclear reactor of the 48 that were shut down following the 2011 Fukushima disaster, a Marubeni Corp.-led consortium installed what it touts as, to date, the world’s largest offshore wind turbine. The 7-MW component is for a 14-MW wind farm under construction in the Onahama Port test area of Fukushima.The turbine stands 105 meters from sea level to the rotor center and 188.5
Lerner and Associates Planned 60-acre urban park in commercial center would channel traffic into underground tunnel. An average of 750,000 vehicles drive every day on Israel's most heavily used freeway. Tel Aviv city officials have given initial approval to an estimated $500-million plan to add a 60-acre roof park over the central segment of the Ayalon Freeway, the busiest transportation artery and densest infrastructure corridor in Israel.The plan calls for covering a 2-kilometer-long by 100-meter-wide section with a grassy roof, with traffic flowing through a tunnel underneath.While a freeway roof has long been eyed by city officials, last month's approval
Sound Transit Crews install rebar at the Capitol Hill Station pedestrian tunnel, which lies beneath Broadway and connects to Seattle Central Community College. Related Links: Seattle Rail Tunnels Proceeding Smoothly Glen Frank: A Wrestler Leads Tough Tunnel Job As crews in July removed a wall that separated existing rail track from the construction zone for a segment of the light-rail system that will connect downtown Seattle to the University of Washington’s Husky Stadium, the nearly $2-billion project, which includes two underground stations and 3.15 miles of bored track, remains about six months ahead of schedule six years into construction. The
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