Articles by JT Long

The 645-ft Millennium Tower—the tallest reinforced concrete structure in the Western United States—is sinking and tilting, and the building owner places the blame squarely on the adjacent Transbay Transit Center project.

Out of the 4,251 worker fatalities in private industry in 2014, 874 of those, or 20.5%, were in construction.

The design team behind the $477-million Golden 1 Center in downtown Sacramento aimed to keep spectators comfortable and reduce energy and water use by using such innovative elements as massive operational glass hangar doors and two independent ventilation systems.

As the California High Speed Rail Authority executes multiple contracts for California’s $62.1-billion high-speed-rail line, crews are making headway on the initial 100 miles of track.

After a Kiewit employee detected a leak early on Jan. 20 in a temporary cofferdam protecting workers and downstream interests on the $900-million Folsom Dam Auxiliary Spillway Project in California, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers evacuated a dozen crew members and equipment while the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) closed the bulkhead gates to prevent catastrophic flooding in the event of a cofferdam failure.

Navigating a crowded underground utility space through a dense Silicon Valley neighborhood, a design-build team is using a number of alternative technical concepts on a $2.3-billion Berryessa VTA/Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) extension.

California’s first public-private partnership for road construction used a temporary bypass and creative scheduling to speed up replacement of a 70-year-old seismically vulnerable access to San Francisco’s iconic Golden Gate Bridge.