Steve LeBlanc - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tue March 29, 2016
Traffic Backed Up? Bridge Out? States Deploy Drones for Answers
BOSTON (AP) - That buzzing sound overhead may soon signal the arrival of the 21st-century version of a guy in a hardhat and bucket truck. State transportation departments are increasingly studying the use of drones for everything from inspecting bridges to clearing car accidents....
Cindy Riley - Mon March 28, 2016
Martin Health System Expands Its Facility
With a targeted completion date of 2018, crews in Port St. Lucie, Fla., are carrying out construction plans that will double the size of the community's private 90-bed, acute care hospital. In 2015, officials from Martin Health and other local leaders took part in the groundbreaking for Phase II of Tradition Medical Center....
Irwin Rapoport - Fri March 25, 2016
Project Linking Ohio, Ky. Reaches 80 Percent Completion
Built in 1922 to link Ironton, Ohio, and Russell, Ky., the Ironton-Lawrence Bridge spanning the Ohio River levee, six rail lines and city streets is being replaced by the Ohio Department of Transportation via an $81.4 million contract that was awarded to the Brayman Construction Corporation....
Fri March 25, 2016
Construction Crews Uncover Cannon
Local North Carolina news affiliate WNCN is reporting that construction workers discovered what appears to be a cannon near the Federal Courthouse on Water Street in downtown Wilmington last week. The artifact was discovered around 4 p.m....
Mon March 28, 2016
VIDEO: Unions Walk Out, Halt Construction of Apple 'Spaceship'
Local San Francisco CBS News Affiliate KPIX is reporting that construction of Apple's new $5 billion “Spaceship” campus was brought to a standstill last week, as unions are locked in a stalemate over worker wages....
Fri March 25, 2016
Rio Olympics Builder Targeted in Corruption Probe
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Brazilians authorities carried out a wave of searches and detentions linked to the Odebrecht construction company on Tuesday, accusing it of having a department that oversaw payment of bribes on projects including an airport, a subway and a World Cup soccer stadium....
Thu March 24, 2016
Homeowners Sue Road Repair Contractor
The New Orleans Times-Picayune is reporting that a group of Uptown homeowners have sued a Harahan-based construction company alleging that their historic homes in the Prytania Street corridor have been damaged by the firm's heavy equipment and negligence during a road-repair project that started last March....
Irwin Rapoport - Wed March 23, 2016
MnDOT's Hwy. 5 Project Enters Second Phase
The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) is spending $13.8 million to rebuild the deck of the Highway 5 bridge/West 7th Street Bridge, an east-west, 1,999-ft. (609.3 m) long span (two lanes in each direction) across the Mississippi River....
Thu March 24, 2016
Seattle Tunnel Injury Claims Total Over $2.5M So Far
SEATTLE (AP) - An amputated foot, a fractured hand and a fingertip crushed so badly it had to be surgically removed were among the injuries suffered by workers at the Seattle tunnel project last year - injuries that resulted in about $700,000 in workers' compensation claims for one year alone....
Mon March 21, 2016
Things to Know About California's $15.7B Giant Twin Tunnels Project
CLARKSBURG, Calif. (AP) - California is proposing its most ambitious water project in a half-century. At $15.7 billion, it would run two giant tunnels, each four stories high, for 35 miles under the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in Northern California, sending water to cities and farms to the south....
