Photo Courtesy of McKinstry McKinstry CEO Dean Allen, also president of a leading state group pushing engineering and related fields, chats with students. Related Links: Website of Washington STEM Website of STEMX, A Network of All State STEM Advocacy Programs Engineering Community's Licensing Debate a Lesson in Degrees of Separation Tennesee Geotechnical Engineer Reclaims More than Riverbanks Engineering Academies' First High-School Grads Plug-In Car Infrastructure Gives Training a Big Charge Auburn Students Work With Industry to Design Tomorrow's Tools Dean Allen, CEO of Seattle-based contractor McKinstry, is not OK with too many kids in the state giving up on the
Executives at Ralls Corp., a Delaware-based company founded by Chinese nationals Duan Dawei and Wu Jialiang, say they disagree with President Barack Obama's recent decision to prohibit them from building four 10-MW wind farms near Boardman, Ore.
In July, an eight-pound steelhead swimming up the Elwha River generated more excitement than 15,000 yards of concrete ripped out of a dam that had impounded the watercourse within Washington state's Olympic National Park since its construction 99 years ago.
Gary Brunson, the U.S. Energy Dept. engineering director at the Hanford $12.2-billion Waste Treatment Plant project, claims Bechtel National Inc. is doing such a poor job of managing engineering at DOE's Washington state site that the contractor should be removed.
Photo Courtesy of Washington Closure Hanford N Reactor is the last of nine aging reactors to be partly demolished and sealed for long-term decay of radioactivity. Related Links: Engineering News-Record Architectural Record The last and largest of nine defunct nuclear reactors once used for weapons production at the U.S. Energy Dept.'s huge Hanford site in Washington state has been placed in safe storage, or "cocooned," so its remaining high radioactivity can safely decay, the agency said on June 14.The new status for the site's N Reactor follows a $65-million cleanup and demolition project, which included demolishing the 85,450-sq-ft building to
As part of a $4.65-billion state Route 520 bridge replacement program east of Seattle, Omaha-based Kiewit Corp. and its subsidiary General Construction Co. are working in Aberdeen, Wash., on a $367.3-million project to build 33 of the largest pontoons ever constructed in the state. The pontoons are part of a total of the 77 needed for the overall replacement of the current Seattle-to-Medina floating bridge across Lake Washington.
The Oregon Dept. of Transportation's new plans for the state's historically plagued $217-million U.S. 20 project will focus on culverts as the only viable way to deal with chronic issues of unstable soils and shifting bridge bents.
Shell Canada announced plans in May for Canada’s largest liquefied-natural-gas, or LNG, facility on British Columbia’s central coast near Kitimat. Shell also is considering an option for the future expansion of the facility, dubbed LNG Canada.
The successful completion this spring of twin 2.1-mile-long bored tunnels in Seattle marks a literal breakthrough in that city's troubled history of light-rail construction. It also represents the halfway mark in the 3.15-mile, $1.9-billion project to connect downtown with the University of Washington.The 21-ft-dia tunnels run between Capitol Hill and the university. A Traylor Bros. Inc. and Kemper-Frontier Constructors Inc. joint venture worked under a $309-million contract.
