Workers at a problem-plagued production facility in Louisiana that supplies components to nuclear expansion projects in Georgia and South Carolina conspired to cheat on a welder qualification test, according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Photo courtesy Georgia Power Company A view of the Plant Vogtle Unit 3 nuclear island, as of September 2014. Photo courtesy Georgia Power Company One of the CA20 modules included as part of the Unit 3 nuclear island. The Lake Charles, La., prefabrication plant is the facility producing the CA20 modules. Related Links: CB&I Plant That Feeds Vogtle Project Faces NRC Scrutiny Builders of Vogtle
A watchdog group focused on federal spending at the Savannah River site, a nuclear complex in Aiken, S.C., is raising new concerns about the delayed, $7.7-billion Mixed-Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility project after the contractor filed a "routine" request to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a 10-year construction extension. Photo courtesy Savannah River Site Watch The contractor leading the $7.7-billion Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility project at the Savannah River Site has requested a 10-year extension for construction authorization from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Related Links: DOE: Nuclear Agency's Initial OK of MOX Project Violated Standards Construction, Operational Challenges Endanger $7.7B
Robert Clifford, CLIFFORDformerly executive director of the Tampa Bay Area Regional Transportation Authority (TBARTA), has joined Parsons Brinckerhoff as vice president and Tampa area manager. Clifford has 28 years of experience in the planning and construction of transportation facilities. As TBARTA's executive director from 2009 to 2014, Clifford served as the chief executive and administrative officer for the seven-county regional transportation agency with responsibility for planning, designing, operating and constructing facilities and services in the Tampa Bay area. Related Links: Slideshow: The Southeast's Top 20 Under 40 PB's Tampa office announced that James Lynch has been named a senior supervising
The Atlanta Braves named a trio of local firms as the team's partners in developing a $400-million mixed-use project adjacent to the $670-million baseball stadium in Cobb County, Ga. According to the team's July 30 announcement, Fuqua Development, Pope & Land Enterprises and Pollack Shores Real Estate Group will work with the Braves to develop the 74-acre project. The development will include roughly 630,000 sq ft of office space, 500,000 sq ft of retail, 450 hotel rooms and 500 residences. Related Links: Brasfield & Gorrie Team Named as Atlanta Braves Ballpark Builders Atlanta Braves Expand Plans for New Ballpark Fuqua
Despite concerns raised by citizens groups about project funding and community impacts, the company developing a $2.3-billion Miami-to-Orlando passenger rail system is moving full speed ahead with its ambitious plans for the 235-mile-long line. Officials with All Aboard Florida (AAF)—a division of Florida East Coast Industries (FECI), Coral Gables—held its latest unveiling of design for its third south Florida station, in West Palm Beach, on July 21. In conjunction with the event, AAF tweeted this from President Michael Reininger: "All initial steps for our stations are now underway. This is now, in fact, happening." Related Links: Bi-Partisan Panel Pushes Importance
With his signature on June 20, Gov. Rick Scott (R) and Florida lawmakers disbanded the scandal-plagued Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority and rechristened it as the Central Florida Expressway Authority, which has a new board. Three Florida counties already have appointed new board members, and Scott will appoint the remaining ones. Related Links: Beers, Burgers and a Bribe? The Case Against a Florida Expressway Official A grand jury indicted two board members, one for violating public-meeting laws in connection with a plan to oust former board Chairman Max Crumit. An engineer seen by many as a transparency advocate, he now works
In its latest report on Everglades restoration, the National Research Council tempered mild praise for "fairly modest progress" in the $13.5-billion plan with its concerns over climate change, rising sea levels and the invasion of non-native plant and animal species. Photo courtesy South Florida Water Management District The report highlighted successes, such as the 85-percent completion of the Kissimmee River Restoration project, which undoes a 1960s channelization of the river. Related Links: NRC Fifth Everglades Quality Report Expected Court OK Will Launch $880M Worth of Everglades Work The fifth congressionally mandated biennial report on the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP),
GLF Construction Corp. has agreed to pay $42,000 in penalties to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) as the result of an accident that killed an 18-year-old who had just started working on a Taylor County, Fla., bridge project earlier this year. OSHA officials told ENR Southeast that GLF signed an Informal Settlement Agreement on June 30. Related Links: OSHA, Industry Launch Safety Push on Fall Protection According to OSHA, on Jan. 16, 2014, a nearly 1,800-pound Acrow bridge panel fell upon and killed David Kimberl while he was helping to dismantle a section of the Aucilla River Bridge
GOUVEIAJeffrey Gouveia was named president of Suffolk Construction Co.'s Southeast region, based in West Palm Beach, Fla. Gouveia, who helped launch the firm's regional presence, replaces former region general manager Rex Kirby. Gouveia had served as Suffolk's executive vice president of operations and assisted with growing the Southeast office. Related Links: Call for Entries: Top 20 Under 40 Contest SLIDESHOW: The Southeast's Top 20 Under 40 Richard "Dick" Wells, vice president of Kleinfelder and its transportation market manager in Greensboro, N.C., has been elected chairman of the American Council of Engineering Cos. Wells had been president and a director of
The Florida Dept. of Transportation is seeking reimbursement from the U.S. Navy and federal subcontractors for $4.1 million in costs related to the state agency's emergency repairs to Jacksonville’s Mathews Bridge.
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