Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Thu March 24, 2022
Kubricky Construction Demolishes Bridges, Builds Temp Spans, More
The Middlebury Bridge & Rail project, a Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) initiative in collaboration with the town of Middlebury, is nearing completion this summer. The more than $92 million project replaced two nearly 100-year-old bridges that crossed the Vermont Rail Corridor in the center of Middlebury with a tunnel in the summer of 2020....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Thu March 17, 2022
Digging It … Joint Venture Constructs New $3.8B Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel
As the largest highway construction effort in the Commonwealth of Virginia's history, the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel (HRBT) Expansion Project will increase capacity, ease major congestion and enhance travel time reliability when complete....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Tue January 04, 2022
LOTs of Activity Ahead for $267M Columbus Water Tunnel
In Columbus, Ohio, work is under way on a $267 million project known as the Lower Olentangy Tunnel (LOT). Construction began on site in April 2021, with a scheduled completion date of December 2026. "The city is under two Ohio Environmental Protection Agency [OEPA] consent orders to improve water quality and reduce the potential for human contact with waterborne pollutants by reducing overflows from the sewer system into creeks and rivers during wet weather events," said Jeremy Cawley, city of Columbus project manager....
Connecticut Post - Mon October 18, 2021
Tunnel on Danbury, Conn.'s West Side Not a Viable Option in I-84 Plan
A proposed and much-discussed half-mile-long tunnel to straighten Interstate 84 between Exits 2 and 4 on Danbury's west side is among several options being considered by the Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT)....
Lane Construction - Thu May 13, 2021
Excavation Complete on NEBT Project in Washington, D.C.
Excavation of the Northeast Boundary Tunnel (NEBT) in Washington, D.C., a joint-venture project valued at $580 million being constructed by The Lane Construction Corporation and its parent company, Webuild Group (formerly Salini Impregilo), is complete....
Granite Construction - Tue April 27, 2021
Granite Begins Work On $267M Tunnel Project in Columbus
Granite Construction announced March 8 that it has been awarded the Lower Olentangy Tunnel project by the city of Columbus in Columbus, Ohio. The $267 million contract is anticipated to be booked in Granite's first quarter 2021 backlog....
Capital Gazette - Mon March 29, 2021
New Flood Mitigation Efforts in Ellicott City, Md., Include Tunnel Extension
Nine buildings that were previously set to be demolished as part of the Safe and Sound plan for Ellicott City, Md.,'s flood mitigation efforts will now be saved, Howard County Executive Calvin Ball announced March 25....
New Jersey Business - Tue March 16, 2021
Early Work Advanced on New York's Hudson Yards Concrete Casing
The Gateway Development Commission announced in March that Amtrak has awarded a contract and work has begun on behalf of the Gateway program to relocate utilities out of the future path of the third and last section of the Hudson Yards Concrete Casing in Manhattan, N.Y., a part of the Hudson Tunnel Project....
Baltimore Business Journal - Mon March 15, 2021
Baltimore's Howard Street Tunnel on Track for Rebuild
Shovels could go into the ground this summer or early fall as CSX Corp.'s long-awaited reconstruction of the Howard Street Tunnel in Baltimore continues to inch toward becoming reality. Maryland officials have been pushing for years to increase the height of the 126-year-old tunnel to allow for double-stacking of containers on trains traveling to and from the Port of Baltimore....
Pat Eaton-Robb - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Mon February 15, 2021
Latest Rail Plan Would Put Tunnel Under Long Island Sound
President Joe Biden's promise to improve the nation's infrastructure has renewed interest in the decades-old idea of a high-speed railroad connecting New York and Boston, possibly through a 16-mi. tunnel under Long Island Sound....
