Fri September 11, 2015
Stadium Debacle Adds to Tokyo’s Olympic Woes
TOKYO (AP) - Japan’s ambitions for a trouble-free 2020 Tokyo Olympics to showcase the country’s economic revival are facing an unexpected obstacle course as planners lurch from one fiasco to the next....
RIK STEVENS - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Fri September 11, 2015
Demand Remains Strong for Dwindling WTC Steel Supply
In an airplane hangar at New York’s Kennedy Airport, fewer than 30 pieces of steel remain from the debris recovered after terrorists flew hijacked planes into the World Trade Center’s twin towers on Sept....
Jay Adams - Wed September 09, 2015
VTrans Replaces Highway Bridge in Three Days Using Slide-In System
A few years ago, construction teams could replace a big, steel and concrete bridge in 61 months. With the remarkable advancement of new technologies, Rhode Island and other states have replaced bridges in 61 days....
Wed September 09, 2015
Jersen Builds Nanocenter With Assistance From Finke
There’s nothing “nano” about the Marcy Nanocenter project at SUNY Poly Institute, on which Jersen Construction Corp. is performing the site work. Located in the heart of upstate New York, the Nanocenter is anticipated to be a 450-acre greenfield site that is being developed for the semiconductor industry....
Irwin Rapoport - Tue September 08, 2015
New Eastbound Bridges for I-290 in Tonawanda
Crews from the Union Concrete and Construction Corp. are halfway through a $14.5 million project that is replacing four bridges (three lanes per-bridge) in the western New York of town of Tonawanda on Interstate 290 eastbound and westbound over Military Road (NY Route 265) and Delaware Avenue (NY Route 384) at Exit 1A and Exit 1B....
Wed September 09, 2015
NYC Cathedral Makeover Wraps Up as Papal Visit Nears
NEW YORK (AP) - A three-year restoration project at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York and one of the country’s most well-known churches, is coming to an end just in time for a late September visit from Pope Francis....
Sun September 06, 2015
Spider Provides Floating Platform for California Bridge Maintenance
Spider, a division of SafeWorks LLC, provided the suspended scaffolding solution for maintenance on a wooden suspension bridge that spans the south fork of the American River in Placerville, Calif. The seventy-five year old Mosquito Bridge is just nine ft....
Sat September 05, 2015
Historic Highway 1 Designated the ’Ultimate Road Trip’
California has 72 Officially Designated Scenic Highways, but only one has been named the “Ultimate Highway Trip,” by Sunset Magazine this June: Highway 1. The curvy, two-lane Pacific Coast Highway hugs the western edge of where the ocean laps into California, sometimes just feet from the highway or below breathtaking cliffs....
Irwin Rapoport - Sat September 05, 2015
Infrastructure Upgrades to Help Cut Water Use in San Diego
The ongoing drought in California has the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) investing in infrastructure — new and upgrades — to help conserve water in the immediate and for the future....
Christian Wihtol - THE REGISTER-GUARD - Fri September 04, 2015
ODOT Repairing Stretch of Highway 101
FLORENCE, Ore. (AP) A 17-mi. (27 km) stretch of Highway 101 north of Florence is in such bad shape the state plans to undertake a major rebuild that will cost nearly $10 million. The pavement is deeply cracked in many places, plus in spots the subsurface gravel base is likely eroded, requiring excavation and complete rebuild in those locations, said Rick Little, a spokesman of the Oregon Department of Transportation....
