While the crowds of summer tourists at Montana’s Glacier National Park begin to thin, construction crews are pushing to complete several much needed infrastructure projects that have been accelerated by recent federal funding.
When crews with Kokosing Construction Co. began a $209-million design-build contract—the largest of its kind in West Virginia—in 2015, they first had to build roads in order to build the actual road called Corridor H.
A $55.7-million scour repair project will see demolition of the existing seven bridge piers and associated timber piles, and installation of 14 new reinforced concrete drilled shafts on this 77-year-old bridge.
The Indiana Department of Transportation took the challenges of 2020 and made lemonade out of them in the form of shortened projects and taxpayer savings. This department has invested in state roads and bridges at a high level for years and is ENR Midwest Owner of the Year.
Bridges and roads each received the poorest grades of “D-” from the Mississippi Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in its the 2020 Report Card for Mississippi’s Infrastructure out of the 12 graded categories. The report card, released April 14, gave Mississippi an overall grade of “D+” for its infrastructure systems.
Two years of work to repair and upgrade Portland's Burnside Bridge has reached the final few weeks of projects, complete with a new traffic layout and construction that included upgrades to the bridge's surface, structure, mechanical and electrical functions.