Thu June 25, 2015
Construction Nearly Finished at Lihue Airport Site
LIHUE, Hawaii (AP) - An erosion control project in Lihue is nearing completion after it was stalled for more than a year because a bird nesting colony was discovered. The Garden Island reports (http://bit.ly/1BD7AH8 ) reports that Department of Transportation Spokesman Tim Sakahara says crews resumed construction in February....
Michael Biesecker - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tue June 23, 2015
N.C. Officials Reach Agreement to Allow Replacement of Bonner Bridge
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) North Carolina transportation officials have reached an agreement with environmental groups that would allow for the construction of a new span across Oregon Inlet to replace the aging Bonner Bridge....
Tue June 23, 2015
State Agency Delays Plans to Demolish White River Bridge
CLARENDON, Ark. (AP) An effort to repurpose a bridge across the White River into the longest pedestrian bridge in the country has gotten an assist from Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson. The state Highway and Transportation Department has delayed plans for six months to demolish the 83-year-old bridge at Clarendon on the U.S....
Mon June 22, 2015
Southern Ohio Veterans Memorial Highway Ready for Construction
The final pieces are now in place for the construction of the Southern Ohio Veterans Memorial Highway in Scioto County. The project is made possible by the first public-private partnership (P3) in Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) history....
Lori Tobias - Fri June 19, 2015
NIPSCO Unit 12 Project’s 2016 Deadline Well in Sight
After more than three years of planning and highly choreographed work, crews on the job to complete the dry flue-gas desulfurization environmental upgrade project of Northern Indiana Public Service Co.’s (NIPSCO) Unit 12 have the spring 2016 deadline well in sight....
Thu June 18, 2015
First Tappan Zee Girders Barge Down the Hudson
The Journal News is reporting first of the 134 assembled girder units will arrive this month by barge from upstate. They’ll be easy to spot not only because of their massive size and location — they’ll sit on top of the concrete columns that are rising fast in the Hudson River — but because of their sky-blue color....
Lori Tobias - Thu June 11, 2015
San Francisco War Memorial a ’Daunting’ Project
When the San Francisco Public Works project team set out to design the retrofitting of the historic War Memorial Veteran’s Building, they knew they had their work cut out for them. Or at least they thought they did....
Wed June 10, 2015
Bay Bridge Committee OKs Up to $4 Million to Study Latest Problems
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A panel overseeing a new $6.4 billion eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge approved spending up to $4 million to study the latest problems discovered with the structure....
Brenda Ruggiero - Fri June 05, 2015
Barilla Group Begins $36.5 Million Expansion in Ames, Iowa
A $26.5 million expansion project recently began at the Barilla Group’s manufacturing facility in Ames, Iowa. The company, which makes the world’s top-selling brand of pasta, launched the project to install two new production lines dedicated to gluten-free pasta....
Irwin Rapoport - Sat May 30, 2015
Texas Employs Innovation to Fred-Med Span
An innovative construction technique — a lateral bridge slide — was employed by the Texas Sterling Construction Company to build a new bridge for the Fred-Med project, a $14.6 million bridge and road project in San Antonio, Texas, with the goals of establishing a free flow of traffic in and out of the Medical Center, improving the safety of people seeking health care and medical assistance, and reducing critical travel time for those seeking emergency care....
