Fluor Announces Financial Close on Gordie Howe International Bridge
IRVING, Texas (September 28, 2018) – Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced that Bridging North America, a partnership of Fluor, ACS Infrastructure Canada and Aecon Group Inc., reached financial close to design, build, finance, operate and maintain the Gordie Howe International Bridge Project for Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority (WDBA). Fluor plans to book its share of the design and construction contract value in the third quarter of 2018. Fluor is participating in the entire 36-year life c...
Thornton Tomasetti Volunteers Help Build Bridge in Panama
As part of the firm’s TT Gives Back initiative, a team of 10 Thornton Tomasetti engineers from six offices recently traveled to Boca de Lura in Panama’s Coclé Province for an international service mission, partnering with Bridges to Prosperity to help provide a crucial passage over the Lura River for area residents. Since 2001, Bridges to Prosperity has built nearly 300 suspended pedestrian bridges in isolated communities across 22 countries. The trip to Panama is the first Bridges to Pr...
Final Old Bay Bridge Pier Implosions - Caltrans News Flash #178
Caltrans News Flash is a series of informative and interesting videos highlighting the wide-ranging and critical work that Caltrans does to enhance California's economy and livability. In this Caltrans News Flash, District 4 Public Information Officer Alejandro Lopez provides an overview of the September 8, 2018, implosion of two marine foundations of the old San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. This is the next phase in the development of public access to San Francisco Bay. https://youtu.b...
Fluor-Led Joint Venture Opens Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge in New York
IRVING, Texas – Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced today that the final span of the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge, which replaced the Tappan Zee Bridge, will open to drivers beginning Saturday, September 8, 2018, when all four lanes of eastbound traffic will shift to the new second span. The eastbound span will consist of four general purpose traffic lanes, two emergency shoulders, space for a dedicated bus lane and an advanced traffic monitoring system. The westbound bridge will remai...
Stantec Awarded Comprehensive Bridge Reconstruction Design Project in Washington
White Pass, WA: Stantec, a global engineering, consulting, and construction firm, is proud to announce that it will be leading the design of the comprehensive bridge replacement project of Wildcat Creek Bridge, on US 12 east of White Pass, WA, for the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) in collaboration with Graham Contracting. The existing 150-foot bridge crossing was originally built in 1936 and is showing signs of deterioration due to age and normal wear. The project aims...
Acrow Bridge Provides 14 Bridges for Post-Hurricane Maria Reconstruction Work in Puerto Rico
(Parsippany, New Jersey) – Acrow Bridge, a leading international bridge engineering and supply company, today announced that it is in the process of assembling the last two of 14 bridges ordered as part of the reconstruction of Puerto Rico’s transportation infrastructure in the wake of Hurricane Maria in September 2017. Acrow CEO Bill Killeen said, “Acrow has many years’ experience in creating and restoring transportation lifelines under extreme circumstances, but we have never worked under c...
The Engineer Who Designed the Genoa Bridge that Collapsed and Killed 43 People Warned of its Corrosion Risk 39 Years Ago
ROME (AP) — The Italian engineer who designed the Genoa bridge that collapsed and killed dozens warned four decades ago that it would require constant maintenance to remove rust given the effects of corrosion from sea air and pollution on the concrete. RAI state television broadcast excerpts Sunday of the report that the late engineer Riccardo Morandi penned in 1979, 12 years after the bridge bearing his name was inaugurated in Genoa. The Associated Press downloaded the English-language repor...
22 Dead as Italian Bridge Collapses in Storm, Sending Cars Plunging
A bridge on a main Italian highway collapsed Tuesday in the port city of Genoa during a sudden, violent storm, sending vehicles plunging 90 meters (nearly 300 feet) into a heap of rubble below. Italian deputy transport minister Edoardo Rixi said that 22 people were killed and eight injured in the collapse, twice the death toll that was given by the Interior Ministry, which said 11 were killed and five seriously injured but added that the numbers could increase. Rixi told Sky TG24 that, as h...
Hunter Station Bridge Receives Regional America’s Transportation Award
Dewberry has announced that the Hunter Station Bridge rehabilitation and replacement project in Tionesta Township, Pennsylvania, has been awarded the Best Use of Technology and Innovation in the medium category in the Northeast region of the 11th annual America's Transportation Awards competition. Dewberry served as the prime consultant for the $24.2-million project that replaced the existing bridge that carries U.S. Route 62 over a designated wild and scenic stretch of the Allegheny River. T...
NTSB Issues Investigative Update on Miami Bridge Collapse
This photo illustrates the condition of the cracks after the move of the main span that occurred on March 10, 2018. Photo taken on March 14, 2018 at 1:50 pm shows east side directly adjacent to vertical member 12, top of deck looking down, view of crack. Labels added to photo by the NTSB. (Photo: Bolton, Perez & Associates Consulting Engineers) WASHINGTON – The National Transportation Safety Board issued an investigative update Thursday on the ongoing investigation of the collapse of a p...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
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