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With seismic resistance at the forefront of the reasoning behind the creation process, the new fiber-reinforced concrete developed at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C., undertakes its first real-world application as part of a seismic retrofit of a Vancouver elementary school.

Bertha made the tunnel, but now Seattle Tunnel Partners crews working on behalf of the Washington State Dept. of Transportation must turn that tunnel into a workable 1.7-mile double-decker roadway.

As the Hanford Nuclear Waste Site in southeast Washington nears completion of the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant Low-Activity Waste Facility, Bechtel National Inc. revealed the successful completion of assembly of two nuclear waste melters inside the facility, each at 300 tons.

Tacoma’s stretch of Interstate 5 has appeared encased in a never-ending string of construction projects.

No transformation has proven quite as dramatic as in Seattle where the two pits—one at the south end of the project and the other at the north end, near the Space Needle—will require full transformations to serve the needs of the double-decker tunnel roadway.

Lifting away contaminated portions of the Hanford Nuclear Waste Site’s Plutonium Finishing Plant requires cranes to remove the largest pieces of equipment, dubbed glove boxes.

As the Oak View Group (OVG) and former Seattle Mayor Ed Murray negotiated a memorandum of understanding on a $600 million privately financed renovation of Key Arena at Seattle Center, OVG agreed to an additional $40 million for transportation mitigation around Seattle Center.

A new political leadership for British Columbia means a new direction for a multi-billion-dollar project to replace the aging George Massey Tunnel between Delta and Richmond south of Vancouver, B.C.

Calgary city officials have given the Green Line light rail project formal approval, giving the project a way forward into the start of pre-construction in late 2017 and 2018.

For four years, Bertha, once the world’s largest tunnel-boring machine, came packed not only with 57.5-ft worth of diameter and over 8,000 tons of girth, but never-ending drama.