The proposed bypass fix for the troubled Fremont Street girders of San Francisco's Salesforce Transit Center calls for bolting 20-in.-wide steel cover plates above and below the fractured bottom flange, like a double splint.
It’s gotten to the point that when we mention Lean Construction to a subcontractor, we get an eye roll rather than an enthused response, and that’s troubling.
Terry Morgan's ouster as chair of HS2 and Crossrail comes as the latter London tunnel line faces a new $2.5-billion budget hole and a likely finish beyond 2019.