Related Links: Officials Cite Big Steps Forward In California High-Speed Program California Clears Path for Funding To Get High-Speed Rail Back on Track The California High-Speed Rail Authority selected an international team led by engineering consultant Parsons Brinckerhoff to manage the state's major transportation initiative, under a $700-million comprehensive rail-delivery partner contract.The contract, which runs through 2022, has the PB team overseeing program delivery—including permitting, preliminary engineering, alignment, right-of- way acquisition and procurement."They really came in with a solid presentation of an integrated team to deliver this program," says Scott Jarvis, the authority's chief engineer.Other team members include Network Rail
Related Links: Engineer Sets Foundation to Envision Sustainable Infrastructure Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) website Harvard University Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure InterAmerican Development Bank Infrastructure Project Sustainability Awards-2016 Viewpoint by Robert M. Beinstein: Why CEOs Say Sustainable Solutions are Good Business Two public-sector infrastructure owners with markedly different upgrades getting underway agree on one thing—that the projects have vastly improved thanks to the use of a new tool that allows participants to measure long-term sustainability and justify how and why investments will benefit users and communities.The Florida Dept. of Transportation has embraced use of the new Envision infrastructure sustainability
Photo by Greg Aragon for ENR Union-sponsored gathering of women in the building trades focused on how industry can increase pre-apprentices and boost long-term careers for women. The Los Angeles event, held on May 1-3, attracted a record turnout. Pushing to become a more visible, vocal and valued segment of the construction workforce, more than 1,000 women craftworkers—a record number—convened in Los Angeles this month for a union- sponsored conference to share best practices in everything from pre-apprenticeships to coping with a hostile workplace to long-term career creation."The goal of this conference is to increase the numbers of women coming
Turning an unused pipe chase into an access tunnel for crews so they can walk safely under a busy street from the parking lot to the site epitomizes the type of workarounds that have kept the 70%-complete 500-MW replacement of the 460-MW Unit 3 Scattergood Generating Station on track.
Since its opening in June, the $105-million Wilshire La Brea has become a key part of the modernization of the Miracle Mile District streetscape in Los Angeles.
Completed in time for the holiday shopping season last November, the reinforced concrete design-build project includes 561 stalls across five levels of above-grade parking and 1.5 levels of below grade parking.
The 92-year-old Rose Bowl, one of the most recognizable stadiums in the U.S., was in need of a facelift. However, work couldn't compromise the integrity of the National Historic Landmark.
During this $20-million harbor improvement project, a parking lot was transformed into what the city calls a "new centerpiece of the Los Angeles waterfront."
The project team squeezed two buildings totaling 88,000 sq ft, parking spaces big enough for tour buses and routes for delivery truck circulation into a very tight, eight-acre site for this probiotic dairy beverage maker's first U.S. plant.
Representing a model for future military hospital development, the Clark/McCarthy-led design-build team planned, procured and installed all of the facility's medical equipment and furniture, in addition to training hospital staff on how to use the medical devices.
