Israel Ports Development Co. The Mediterranean port of Ashdod is one of two key Israeli ports set for a $2.2-billion expansion and upgrade. Related Links: Israel To Spend More For Ports and Roads Israel's planned $2.2-billion project to build new container terminals at the Haifa and Ashdod ports is attracting interest from global contenders.The Israel Ports Development Co. said earlier this month that six foreign companies from Europe, China and South Africa have submitted bids to prequalify for the terminal construction at the two Mediterranean coast ports. Two Israeli firms are among the contenders.According to Israeli business publication Globes, the
Related Links: FCC Infrastructure official website High Point Rendel official website Ingerop website One of the largest bridges ever built over the Danube River will officially open between Bulgaria and Romania early next month after decades of planning and lengthy construction delays.The 1,391-meter-long road-rail bridge project survived not only tough physical conditions but also the sometimes chaotic transition of the host countries from communism to membership in the European Union.From near Calafat, Romania, the so-called Danube Bridge 2's cable-supported deck crosses three 180-m-wide navigations channels, with 115-m-long and 124-m-long side spans.Seven 80-m-long and one 52-m-long concrete box girder spans complete
Photo Courtesy Chicago Transit Authority The bridge's upper deck carries commuter rail; the lower deck carries pedestrians and vehicles. Related Links: Hybrid Design Will Replace Century-Old Bascule Bridge Workers Torch Old Wells Street Bridge The Chicago Dept. of Transportation will have just nine days in late April to replace a large section of a double-deck drawbridge spanning the Chicago River, mirroring an early March operation to avoid a lengthy disruption of rail operations atop the two-leaf structure.Beginning April 26, CDOT will suspend rail operations to replace a cantilevered leaf, or bridge arm, on the 91-year-old Wells Street Bridge, one of
Related Links: A Gigantic Turnaround for a Giant Tunneling Machine Ports Seek Rising Tide of Public, Private Funds Bouygues Starts $1-Billion Miami Tunnel When the 2,000-ton cutterhead of a tunnel-boring machine named Harriet made a U-turn last summer in Miami, the event marked a major turning point for the Port of Miami tunnel project.After Harriet broke through the end of one 4,200-ft-long, 42.3-ft-dia tunnel under Biscayne Bay last July, crews with the design-build team, led by Bouygues Civil Works Florida, used a giant Teflon turntable to rotate the TBM's cutterhead and shield in preparation for boring a twin tunnel in
Photo Courtesy of the White House/Pete Souza President Obama visited the PortMiami tunnel project and called for increased infrastructure funding from public and private sources. Related Links: Transcript of Obama 3/29/13 remarks in Miami WRDA Bill Clears Senate Committee (ENR 4/1/13 issue) President Obama paid a March 29 visit to PortMiami—the site of a $1-billion tunnel project financed partly by private funding—and promoted ways of increasing both public and private funding for infrastructure."There are few more important things that we can do to create jobs right now and strengthen our economy over the long haul than rebuilding the infrastructure that
White House Photo by Pete Souza While visiting PortMiami on March 29, President Obama toured the ongoing tunnel project, which was funded partly with private funds. Photo courtesy Bouygues Civil Works Florida President Obama touted his proposals for increasing public and private investment in infrastructure projects. Related Links: Transcript of Obama's March 29 remarks in Miami Video: President Obama Speaks on Infrastructure and the Economy Miami's Big Dig Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) used the occasion of President Obama’s March 29 visit to PortMiami to highlight the state’s increasing investments in port improvement projects, while chiding the president and the
Photo by Jeff Rubenstone for ENR San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge file photo (2012) Related Links: Caltrans Responds to Alleged Testing Flaws on New Bay Bridge Emergency repairs are getting under way on thirty-two steel-threaded connecting rods on the $6.4-billion San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge’s 10,176-ft.-long eastern span, after California Dept. of Transportation officials revealed the rods snapped after being tensioned. The 525-ft-tall self-anchored suspension (SAS) structure is still expected to open on Labor Day weekend, as scheduled, carrying 280,000 vehicles daily over two stacked 5-lane roadways. American Bridge-Fluor Enterprises is the joint-venture general contractor, with T.Y. Lin International, San Francisco, and
Image Courtesy of MassDOT A historic station will receive a major expansion, but not before planners using modern simulation tools attempt to identify every possible construction scenario. Image Courtesy of MassDOT Related Links: Massachusetts Presents Ambitious Transportation Vision Boston South Station A historic Boston transit hub is undergoing a high-tech examination in preparation for its future. Early-stage work on Boston's $850-million South Station expansion proposal is deploying a robust level of construction-sequence modeling in hopes of minimizing major construction conflicts within a rail hub that sees more than 100,000 daily commuters.South Station, a 110-year-old architectural icon, is Boston's busiest multimodal
Photo Courtesy of ERC Construction activities continue for a new Virginia tunnel as a lawsuit looms. Related Links: Virginia Takes Steps To Propel Two Transportation Projects The $2.1-billion Midtown Tunnel project in Virginia is the latest flashpoint in the ongoing debate over the imposition of tolls on existing transportation infrastructure.On March 13, the Portsmouth, Va., City Council unanimously endorsed a citizen-driven lawsuit challenging the use of tolls to help fund construction of the new tube parallel to the 50-year-old, 4,300-ft-long Midtown Tunnel, which carries more than one million vehicles a month between the city and Norfolk.The public-private project (P3) involving
The ASCE released a promotional video for the 2013 infrastructure report card. The American Society of Civil Engineers' latest evaluation of the condition of U.S. infrastructure shows improvement, but not by much.
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