Battling monsoons, heat, live traffic and subpar soils, a joint-venture team expects to complete 30 miles of a Phoenix-area freeway expansion in just eight monthsadding another reason for the Arizona Dept. of Transportation to embrace design-build as it constructs projects to cope with growing traffic.A team of Kiewit Corp. and Sundt Construction holds the approximately $90-million contract to add 30 miles of high-occupancy vehicle lanes to Loop 101 between state Route 51 and Interstate 10.To do this many miles in [nine] months is pretty exciting, says Steve Mishler, ADOT project manager. Typically, this project would have been broken up into
PHOTO COURTESY OF SUNDT CONSTRUCTION INC. A 30-mile project is rapidly adding HOV lanes to a Phoenix-area freeway. Battling monsoons, heat, live traffic and subpar soils, a joint-venture team expects to complete 30 miles of a Phoenix-area freeway expansion in just eight months—adding another reason for the Arizona Dept. of Transportation to embrace design-build as it constructs projects to cope with growing traffic.A team of Kiewit Corp. and Sundt Construction holds the approximately $90-million contract to add 30 miles of high-occupancy vehicle lanes to Loop 101 between state Route 51 and Interstate 10.“To do this many miles in [nine] months
AP Photo/Jim Cole New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch meets with officials from the state's Department of Transportation on the Kancamagus Highway that cuts through the White Mountain National Forest, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011, in Lincoln, N.H. Flash floods from Hurricane Irene washed out part of the road. Citing high driver fatality rates, increasing energy- and agriculture-related freight movements and the recent devastation of Hurricane Irene, transportation construction officials are using a Sept. 1 report to emphasize the potentially devastating effects of delaying federal funding reauthorization on the nation’s rural populations.The nation’s rural roads and bridges are rapidly deteriorating, driving the
AP Photo/Tony Talbot A bridge on Route 73 in Rochester, Vt., lies in ruin in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene Related Links: For a Downgraded Storm, Irene Leaves Her Mark on Infrastructure In areas of the Northeast where infrastructure damage from Hurricane Irene was relatively minor, bridge engineers saw the storm—as well as the previous week’s 5.8 magnitude earthquake affecting the same area—as a dress rehearsal for future potential catastrophic events.Pennoni Associates, engineer-of-record and program manager for Pennsylvania’s Burlington County Bridge Commission, had installed sensors in 2007 on two moveable bridges—one, a 500-ft lift span and the other, a 280-ft-long
Related Links: 9/11 Memorial Is Centerpiece of World Trade Center Redevelopment Tower Crews Get Royal Treatment A Slide Show History of the World Trade Center Slide Show: ENRs World Trade Center Saga Continues At New York's New World Trade Center, Uncommon Cooperation Key Links Help Reshape Manhattan Port Authority World Trade Center Site Editorial: In Close Quarters, Spirit of Cooperation Reigns Readying part of the World Trade Center memorial in time for its Sept. 11 debut is driving much of the project's construction sequencing. At the same time, the WTC Transportation Hub interconnects with every facet of the entire project.
Related Links: See All Of ENR's Rebuilding Ground Zero Stories, Videos and Photos A Slide Show History of the World Trade Center Video: Progress in Rebuilding Ground Zero Video: An Overview of Ground Zero At New York's New World Trade Center, Uncommon Cooperation WTC Tower Crews Get Royal Treatment Slide Show: ENRs World Trade Center Saga Continues Below Grade at WTC Hub, a Transit Tango 9/11 Memorial Is Centerpiece of World Trade Center Redevelopment The opening of a new subway entrance in lower Manhattan would, nine times out of 10, be no big deal. But in terms of 10th anniversary
Amid intense media attention, a design-build team on July 16 closed one of the most congested highway stretches in the country, demolished half an iconic bridge and reopened the 10-mile stretch to traffic 17 hours ahead of schedule—and earned a $300,000 bonus. Photo courtesy of L.A. Metro MIGHTY MULHOLLAND PARTIALLY FALLS Crews chipped away at the southern half of a historic bridge as part of a $1-billion freeway widening. The $1-billion Sepulveda Pass widening will add high-occupancy vehicle lanes to a stretch of Interstate 405 in Los Angeles. The last of three bridges to be demolished and rebuilt, the Mulholland
The widening of I-405 marks one of the few major design-build projects in Los Angeles to date. But thanks to an ambitious initiative to build 12 major transit projects by 2019, rather than over three decades, alternative project delivery methods are expected to be deployed on some of the county's biggest rail and highway projects.One of the highway projects that might benefit is the decades-old Interstate I-710 completion. “This project has the most promising P3 potential,” said Doug Failing, executive director of highway programs for the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority, or L.A. Metro. His remarks came during a May
Evan Futterman wears conservative suits, loves his two daughters and has worked in the aviation planning business for 32 years. He also has a life partner of the same gender and a goal to help other lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people build confidence that they can succeed in business while not having to lie about their identities. Photo by Dennis Drenner Evan Futterman started GALA to support industry members who identify as gay and lesbian. Graphic by Justin Reynolds An ENR Special Feature. Related Links: Main Story: Where a New Inclusiveness Is Changing the Face of the Construction
Attendees at the International Bridge Conference, held in June at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, saw something they had never seen before: the 3,500-sq-ft main pavilion was devoted to the all-stars of the South Korean engineering and construction world. The exhibition included Samsung, Daewoo, Hyundai, rail and highway agencies, and governmental research laboratories. Collage by Justin Reynolds A special ENR feature. Related Links: Main Story: Construction Takes Steps to Improve Workplace Diversity Chinese-Americans Find Themselves Bridging the Gap Between the U.S. and China It was only the second time in the conference's 27-year history that a country—rather than a