As the King Fire, which has burned through 97,000 acres of California's Sierra Nevada mountains, started to threaten electricity and generating stations that provide power to Sacramento, late September rains helped avert a potential public emergency.
The $7.3-billion capital improvement program at Los Angeles International Airport continues with Tuesday’s groundbreaking of a $508-million Terminal 1 Modernization Program.
Pacific Gas & Electric could be facing new penalties of more than $1 billion when it appears in a U.S. federal court in San Francisco on Aug. 18 to address charges under a July 29 indictment that more than doubles the number of its alleged violations of the federal Pipeline Safety Act linked to a fatal 2010 gas pipeline blast in San Bruno, Calif.
Two losing bidders on the Westside Purple Line Extension Project in Los Angeles have filed bid protests over what they call a "flawed evaluation" by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) during scoring of the design-build, best-value proposals.
Trevor Clancy captured this image of an Oltmans Construction crew placing concrete early one morning at the Southwest Carpenters Union Training Center in Buena Park. "As the sky took on its first hues of color, there was a perfect balance between the natural light and the multiple light plants stationed around the worksite," he says. Lights in the background help to create a subtle rim effect that highlights the workers. Photographer: Trevor Clancy, Marble Street Studio Submitted By:Oltmans Construction Co., Whittier Related Links: ENR California Construction Project Showcase Snapshot, June 2, 2014: ARTIC
The construction industry revved up significantly in 2013, with the respondents to ENR California's annual survey of contractors reporting a 16.4% gain in revenue over the previous year.
Twin earth-pressure-balance tunnel-boring machines Mom Chung and Big Alma emerged into a water-filled retrieval pit in the heart of San Francisco in June, having raised the bar for cutting through variable soils without affecting existing infrastructure.
Sonia Sorensen has joined Ware Malcomb as engineering regional manager; she will oversee the firm's civil engineering practice across its offices in Los Angeles, San Diego and Irvine.
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