Courtesy VDOT rolling down the river The new 2600-ton Gilmerton Bridge lift span floated seven nautical miles from its assembly yard to its final site, passing several movable bridges on the Elizabeth River during the trip. Related Links: http://www.virginiadot.org/projects/hamptonroads/gilmerton_bridge_replacement_project.asp From a joint project risk-management program to extremely large drilled shafts using an oscillator, the $134-million replacement of the Henry G. Gilmerton Bridge in Chesapeake, Va., features many innovations, including erecting components of a new 1,908-ft-long vertical-lift bridge beneath and above a 75-year-old twin bascule bridge.The Gilmerton Bridge carries an average of 35,000 vehicles daily and lifts its bascule 7,500 times
Small port in Kuwait is among the country's planned marine projects. Related Links: Egypt's Orascom Looks To Expand Into Middle East Rail Megaproject: $11-Billion United Arab Emirates Network Port construction is booming in mideastern countries seeking to boost their economies and plan for more energy production or imports.Large jobs are under way or announced in Oman, Turkey, Morocco, Qatar, Kuwait and even Libya, where suspended work in Benghazi and Tripoli is being renegotiated and contracts are progressing, say officials and construction executives.Kuwait Oil Co. has tapped Istanbul-based contractor STFA to build a new $486-million port to handle up to 70
Related Links: Repairs Under Way on Highway Closed by Landslide in the Smoky Mountains Phillips & Jordan Inc. of Robbinsville, N.C., won the contract Feb. 20 and started immediately to replace the 200-ft section of US 441 in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park that was wiped out by a landslide.First comes an access road to the bottom of the site and removing 27,000 cu yds of excavation, then filling the football-field-size slide area with 40,000 cu yds of crushed stone that will be “sandwiched” in 1.5-ft layers between layers of geogrid, said Dudley Orr, vice president of Phillips &
The Ohio Dept. of Transportation has selected three design and construction teams that will vie to design, construct and partially finance a $330-million vehicular bridge in Cleveland, marking the first public-private partnership ODOT has undertaken since receiving authorization in 2011.Teams selected to submit proposals for one of two replacements for the I-90 Inner Belt span include Kokosing Construction Co., with designer Michael Baker Jr. Inc.; Walsh Construction, with designer URS Corp.; and Trumbull Corp., The Great Lakes Construction Co. and The Ruhlin Co., with designer HDR Engineering Inc.ODOT plans to select a team for the bridge, an east-bound span, by
Rendering courtesy of Sembawang Work on the station is scheduled to start in the first quarter of 2013. Related Links: MTR Project Homepage Hong Kongs Booming Top 10 (requires ENR login) A subsidiary of India's Punj Lloyd Group has won its first order in Hong Kong to construct MTR Corp.'s Shatin to Central Link Diamond Hill Extension Station, located in northern Kowloon. The firm's Hong Kong-based unit, Sembawang Engineers and Constructors, has won the $212-million job with consortium partner Leader Civil Engineering Corp. Ltd.The 17-kilometer Shatin to Central Link (SCL) is part of Hong Kong's strategic infrastructure plan to develop
Related Links: Floating Bridge Replacement Work Under Way Near Seattle Norwegian Public Roads Administration A 4-kilometer-long floating bridge, which would break the current world record by 2,754 meters, and the first floating tunnel, also 4 km, are among a series of remarkable highway structures, estimated to cost $24.5 billion, planned along more than 1,000 km of Norway’s E39 coastal highway.Government engineers studying the fixed crossings of seven fjords, which are too wide and deep for conventional structures, say the project is likely to push the boundaries of bridge design well beyond current limits.The structures would eliminate seven ferry crossings of
Photo courtesy of the Port of Mombasa Photo courtesy of the Port of Mombasa Related Links: Uneven Growth Projected for African Construction Industry Driven by Africa's rapid economic growth, ports throughout the continent are undergoing major expansions. Africa has experienced an average of 4.5% to 5% of overall growth in the past three years, leading to big increases in its export-import volumes.The demand for port capacity is driven largely by the expanding construction and mining sectors, which require increases of construction-equipment imports and oil and mineral exports.Eastern Africa’s largest economy, Kenya, which enjoyed a growth in its gross domestic product
Courtesy National Park Service Repair crews at work on a section of U.S. 441 washed out by a January slide. Related Links: Contractor Nails Interstate Repair Job After Landslide in East Tennessee Plagued Oregon Job Will Be Redesigned Work crews have begun removing debris, stabilizing the hillside and building an access road to start repairs on U.S. 441 between Gatlinburg, Tenn., and Cherokee, N.C., where a landslide Jan. 15 took out a 200-ft section of road.APAC-Atlantic, Harrison Division, of Knoxville started work Jan. 28 and is expected to complete it “in a few weeks,” according to National Park Service officials.
Related Links: Airports Council International-North America report Congress Clears Long-Delayed FAA Bill (ENR 2/12/12) Airports in the U.S. need $71.3 billion over five years to expand, rebuild and upgrade terminals, runways and other infrastructure, an Airports Council International-North America, or ACI-NA, survey says. Released on Jan. 29, the report says that while large and medium hubs have funds secured or expected for 65% of capital needs, small hubs have 81% of funds committed or expected.The total is down 11% from ACI-NA's 2011 survey, but the group says the average $14.3 billion a year outpaces income from federal Airport Improvement Program
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