Brenda Ruggiero - Mon November 30, 2015
Crews Face Challenges to Repair Colorado Crib Walls
In San Juan and Ouray counties in Colorado, the Colorado Department of Transportation is working on a project to repair five existing crib walls on Red Mountain Pass (U.S. 550). The purpose is to improve the safety and integrity of the roadway by reinforcing the under-highway embankment support walls....
Brenda Ruggiero - Thu November 26, 2015
Innovative Bailey Bridge Improves Safety, Efficiency on $252M I-15 Project
A special conveyor bridge is currently being utilized on a Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) project along I-15 between northern Utah County and Draper. The overall project, valued at $252 million, involves rebuilding a 7-mi....
Cindy Riley - Tue November 24, 2015
World’s First Flat-Rolled Flex Steel Mill Set for 2016
Designed to offer a variety of steels for energy, power and transportation markets, the new, $1.3 billion Big River Steel mill in Osceola, Ark., will be the world’s first flat-rolled flex mill when it opens in mid-2016....
Mon November 23, 2015
Crews Unearth Time Capsule... a Bit Too Soon
The website The Blaze is reporting that the excavation for a new building to focus on nanoscale research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is in the early stages of construction, but during the excavation for this something new, construction crews found something old....
MICHAEL R. BLOOD - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Mon November 30, 2015
Plan for 2024 Olympic Village in L.A. on Shaky Ground
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles’ proposed Olympic village might need a new address. Less than three months after the city was selected as the U.S. candidate for the 2024 Olympic Games, plans to build a sprawling community for 17,000 athletes near downtown appeared to be in doubt and a search is underway for possible alternatives....
Irwin Rapoport - Thu November 19, 2015
Vontz Paving Leads Work on Highway N-11
While the work for the $5.2 million Nebraska Department of Roads (NDOR) project for the milling, resurfacing and bridge repairs for Highway N-11 in Hall County, Wood River North and South will only begin in April or May next year, Vontz Paving, Inc., based in Hastings, NE is carefully planning for the project that is expected to be completed within three months....
Thu November 19, 2015
Construction’s Greatest Hits Over the Centuries
With technology today, it seems no architectural vision is out of reach – no building too big, no design too elaborate. It’s easy to ignore the blood, sweat and tears that construction crews of old must have endured in order to erect some of the world’s most notable structures....
Russ Bynum - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thu November 19, 2015
States Sign New Agreement for $4.5B Shared Port
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - A proposed $4.5 billion port terminal to be shared by Georgia and South Carolina came closer to reality Monday as the states’ port officials signed a new deal for managing the project and voted to ask a federal agency for the permits required to start construction....
Irwin Rapoport - Tue November 17, 2015
Extensive Improvements Being Made to MBTA Fitchburg Commuter Rail Line
Of the five bids submitted to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in 2013 for the Fitchburg Commuter Rail Improvements Track, Civil and Signal Project, the joint-venture of J. F. White Contracting Co....
Brenda Ruggiero - Tue November 17, 2015
MD 355 Intersection Receives Much-Needed Improvements
Under direction of the Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA), MD 355 (Rockville Pike) at Cedar Lane in Bethesda, Md., is receiving an intersection reconstruction to mitigate for a predicted rise in traffic due to the Federal Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Act....
