EIA Expects that 2018 Gasoline Prices Have Peaked in the July Short-Term Energy Outlook
The U.S. Energy Information Administration released its Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) on Tuesday, July 10, 2018. Forecast Highlights Brent crude oil spot prices averaged $74 per barrel (b) in June, a decrease of almost $3/b from the May average. EIA forecasts Brent spot prices will average $73/b in the second half of 2018 and will average $69/b in 2019. EIA expects West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil prices will average $6/b lower than Brent prices in the second half of 2018 and $7/...
Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge: Innovative Design Wins Awards, Moves More People
The original “Q Bridge” was built over the Quinnipiac River in New Haven, Conn., in 1958, but within 30 years its six lanes were insufficient for the growing traffic. Shortly before it was officially dedicated as the Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge in 1995 (to commemorate the attack on Pearl Harbor), local officials had decided it was time to replace the structure with a new bridge. For two decades the Connecticut Department of Transportation (CONNDOT), the Federal Highway Administration, the...
Video: Restoration and Seismic Strengthening of Gaddi Baithak in Kathmandu Durbar Square
Nepal’s Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli inaugurated the newly reconstructed and seismically strengthened Gaddi Baithak in Nepal on June 27. The former palace is part of the UNESCO World Heritage site in Kathmandu Durbar Square.
Urgent US$621 Billion Need for Africa to Meet UN Sustainable Development Goals for Drinking Water, Sanitation and Electricity
The Global Infrastructure Hub, a G20 initiative, has today published two reports that reveal an urgent need for infrastructure investment in 10 Compact with Africa[1]countries, and highlight the reforms required to encourage greater investment. The first of these reports, Global Infrastructure Outlook: Infrastructure Investment Need in the Compact with Africa Countries, reveals that, unless US$621 billion is invested in these 10 countries by 2030, they will fail to meet the UN Sustainable D...
Greenbyte Infographic: Renewable Energy in the USA
Renewable energy software company Greenbyte has gathered the data for renewable energy in the USA. After a series of infographics on European countries, Greenbyte focuses on the other side of the ocean and is showcasing the most impressive renewable numbers in the United States. The infographic focuses on data for wind, solar and hydro, highlights renewable energy production, the most recent data for capacity growth, the states topping the renewable charts and other thrilling facts about the...
Concern Over the Economic Cost of Tariffs Continues to Rise
The economic impact of Trump administration tariffs imposed on a number of goods, but especially steel and aluminum, continues to generate growing concern – especially regarding the cost of infrastructure projects. The American Institute for International Steel, for example, noted that U.S. steel-using manufacturers are encountering product price increases of 50 percent or more and are experiencing difficulty in obtaining the steel they need, regardless of whether they buy domestic-sourced or...
Video: Kaneohe-Kailua Sewer Tunnel and TIPS Project Overview
Connecting the Kaneohe Wastewater Pre-Treatment Facility to the Kailua Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant via a three-mile long gravity sewer tunnel, the $375 million Kaneohe-Kailua Wastewater Conveyance and Treatment Facilities Project increases Windward Oahu's wastewater conveyance and storage capacity while reducing overflows.
A Tunnel That Improves Automated Vehicles
Willow Run, a manufacturing complex located near Ypsilanti, Mich., was built by the Ford Motor Company in 1940 as one of the first facilities dedicated to the mass production of military aircraft, primarily the famous B-24 Liberator heavy bomber, the most produced American military aircraft of all time—at its peak, Willow Run produced 650 B-24s per month. The airport built to support this production is considered by some historians to be the first modern airport. Though no longer used to make...
USDOT Would See Significant Change via OMB Proposal
As part of the 132-page reorganization plan proposed by the Office of Management and Budget to reorganize the federal government's structure, the Department of Transportation would undergo a series of changes that would see duties added as well as deleted from its portfolio. First, Army C...
Trump Administration Reveals Plan to Reorganize Federal Agencies
A 132-page reorganization plan for key federal agencies released by the Office of Management and Budget on June 21 calls for, among other things, shifting the civil works program Army Corps of Engineers out of the Department of Defense and splitting it between the U.S. Department of Transpor...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
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