Chicago Water Plant Collapses After Explosion, Injuring 10
(CNN)An explosion Thursday at the Calumet Water Reclamation Plant in Chicago caused part of the plant to collapse, injuring 10 people there, according to Metropolitan Water Reclamation District (MRWD) of Greater Chicago. "There has been an explosion in the sludge concentration building at the Calumet water reclamation plant," the full statement from agency says. "There are injuries. Emergency crews are on the scene. We have no additional informational at this time." The roof of the sludge...
AISI Publishes Cold-Formed Steel Framing Research
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) has published three new cold-formed steel framing research reports: 1) “RP17-4: Higher Strength Cold-Formed Steel Framed/Steel Shear Walls for Mid-Rise Construction,” 2) “RP17-5: Higher Capacity Cold-Formed Steel Sheathed and Framed Shear Walls for Mid-Rise Buildings, Part 1,” and 3) “RP17-6: Higher Capacity Cold-Formed Steel Sheathed and Framed Shear Walls for Mid-Rise Buildings, Part 2.” All of the research reports are available...
AASHTO Urges Timely Passage of 2019 Transportation Funding
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials sent a letter to Senate and House of Representative leaders on Aug. 21 to support the passage of the fiscal year 2019 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development or THUD appropriations bill – emphasizing highway formula...
City of Boise, Idaho, and Pierce County, Washington, Public Works Projects Judged the Nation’s Best
Chambers Creek Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — The American Public Works Association (APWA) has announced the winners of its 2018 Public Works Projects of the Year competition. The awards program promotes excellence in the management and administration of public works projects, recognizing the alliance among the managing agency, the contractor, the consultant, and their cooperative achievements. This year’s award winners were recognized during APWA’s Public Wor...
Bond ... 54 Bond Street: NYC Building Restoration Wins Prestigious Award
54 Bond Street in Manhattan is a circa-1874, corner cast-iron building in the French Second Empire style. Its recent facade preservation and restoration project in Manhattan received a 2018 Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award, the New York Landmarks Conservancy’s highest honor for preservation excellence. “The $4.5 million project was phased, with the first phase being the facade restoration, and the second, final phase being the reconstruction of the sidewalk, which is currently being completed,”...
Sponsored Content: Taylor Devices Can Save Lives and Reduce Costs
Sponsored By: Across the globe, current building codes only require that new buildings be designed for collapse prevention. Unfortunately, they do not require easy-to-achieve “performance-based designs” that greatly improve performance during an earthquake. It’s assumed that a brand-new building meeting all modern building codes will perform well during earthquakes and allow residents to inhabit them immediately following a major seismic event. However, a brand-new build...
Western Electric Co-ops Increasingly Able to Deliver Savings by Integrating Renewable Energy
BOULDER, COLO. Aug. 23, 2018, — Declines in renewable energy pricing are creating opportunities for electric cooperatives in the U.S. Mountain West to deliver cost savings to their members, and simultaneously creating risks for those utilities that are slower to transition to these technologies, according to a new study from Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI). To illustrate the importance of this broad regional trend, RMI produced a case study of Tri-State Generation and Transmission Associa...
Brookings Institution: View Infrastructure as an ‘Economic Anchor’
Political leadership at the local level should be encouraged to view infrastructure projects ranging from water treatment plants, power plants, seaports, airports, to transit networks in both large cities and rural areas alike as “key economic anchors,” according to recent blog post published by the Brookings Institution. Joseph Kane, senior research associate and associate fellow for the group’s metropolitan policy program, argued in the Aug. 10 post that “constructing and maintaining reliab...
Baltic Sea Water to the Rescue of Drought-hit Islands in Stockholm Archipelago
Stockholm – Is Baltic sea water the new gold? Can the sea water become the lifeline for the drought-threatened hundreds of thousands of people who live along the Baltic coast or each summer visit the hundreds of archipelago islands? The answer to the above questions is a likely yes, thanks to world-leading Swedish technology being used in a unique project on the island of Sandhamn designed to help save the island’s threatened water reserves and tourism-driven economy. The project has seen Blu...
How to Assemble a World Record
The world’s tallest wooden building is groundbreaking for more than just its height. When Mjøstårnet was to be built, Moelven employed a completely new and untested assembly technique. Outsiders may perhaps think that there is great risk involved in using a new assembly method on such a large and prestigious project. However, following many years of development, we were ready to take a new step,” says Rune Abrahamsen, director at Moelven Limtre. Lego for grown-ups Mjøstårnet will be Moelv...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
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