The board of directors for the three-auditorium Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center—the final piece of the puzzle for Lower Manhattan’s 16-acre World Trade Center redevelopment—says construction on the project is expected to begin in 2018 and be completed in 2020.
General contractor Joseph B. Fay Co. and the Pennsylvania Dept. of Transportation said they would work around the clock to repair a bridge-truss compression cord damaged during renovation work on a bridge.
A new Associated General Contractors survey finds that many construction firms are having trouble finding enough workers to staff their projects, both at the craft and salaried levels.
As Dean McKenzie takes over as head of federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s construction directorate, he faces a long list of regulatory priorities.
The team for Stanford University’s $438-million central plant replacement, designed to be 70% more energy-efficient, tiptoed around the 25,000 people who use the 8,000-acre campus daily.
A total of $42 million will be invested to improve solar photovoltaic performance, reliability and manufacturabilit, and enable greater market penetration for solar technologies.
In an effort to prevent train accidents on a new $2.3-billion, 10-mile-long extension line in San Francisco, the Berryessa-Valley Transportation Authority/Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) team is installing a railroad intrusion-detection system (RIDS) that uses warning devices originally developed for protecting shipping ports from break-ins.
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