The $9.1 billion 20-year, 75-project effort at Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, B.C., hit a major milestone with a steel topping ceremony on the expansion of the airport's International Terminal Building, known as Pier D, one of the key parts of the largest expansion in the project portfolio.
The first 300 ft of Sound Transit light rail track is now laid for the 2.4-mile light rail extension through Tacoma's Stadium District and Hilltop neighborhood.
With trains scheduled to roll along 12 new miles of light rail track in Portland by 2027, planning on the TriMet expansion continues to move forward, both on the proposed route and 13 stations between Portland State University in Southwest Portland and Bridgeport Village in Washington County.
Efforts to replace the 100-year-old Interstate Bridge connecting Oregon to Washington over the Columbia River, however far they’ve advanced in the past, have all fallen short. Now, though, a small bit of life comes back to the bridge replacement discussion.
The $500,000 put up by the government of British Columbia to study a fixed-link rapid transit connection across Burrard Inlet, connecting Vancouver, B.C., to the North Shore, revives an idea that has floated the inlet for years.
As Sound Transit moves closer to building the 7.8-mile-long Federal Way Link Extension light rail project, the selection of Kiewit Infrastructure West Company to design and build the project marks a major milestone.
The shoring of a waste storage tunnel at the Dept. of Energy's Hanford Nuclear Waste Site in southeast Washington proved successful and wraps the response to a May 2017 partial collapse of an adjoining tunnel.
