Trolley Extension into La Jolla: Construction Kicks Off This Week
A groundbreaking ceremony and community celebration is scheduled Saturday to officially kick off construction of the $2.1 billion extension of the San Diego Trolley’s Blue Line into La Jolla and University City. The 11 a.m. event on the field at The Preuss School at UC San Diego will include a picnic, music and children’s activities, as well as information about the 11-mile Mid-Coast Trolley extension and the construction schedule. Preliminary work has been underway for most of...
Tensar Helps Transform The Hills at Governor's Island
Over the course of the past year, Tensar Corporation took part in a nationally acclaimed project in New York City: The Hills at Governor’s Island. The Hills at Governor’s Island was an abandoned, natural island, previously a military fort, just a few hundred yards south of Lower Manhattan. New York City wanted to transform this abandoned military base and excavation dumping ground into a grand park on an island accessible from New York City via a short ferry ride. For the transformati...
Fluor Completes Module Fabrication for Oil Sands Project
IRVING, Texas & CALGARY, Alberta - Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced today that all 358 modules have been fabricated and shipped to the site for its portion of the Fort Hills Energy L.P. oil sands mining project in the Athabasca region of Alberta, Canada. Fluor is performing engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction for the utilities scope of the project. The project applied Fluor’s innovative 3rd Gen Modular ExecutionSM approach, which optimizes process block layouts and p...
Designing for a Better Society: ‘Opportunity Space’ to Lead the Way
Opportunity Space is an international design-build competition challenging multidisciplinary teams to propose a temporary, mobile structure in an effort to support economic opportunity and social inclusion. Its first edition will take place in Malmö, Sweden. The winning team will receive a $10,000 prize, a travel stipend, and up to $25,000 to implement a prototype of its proposal in and around Malmö’s Enskifteshagen Park. The competition is organised by Van Alen Institute in cooperation with...
Washington, D.C., Digital Kiosks and Sensor Network to Harvest a Wealth of Urban Data Including CyberCity 3D Buildings and Maalka Software
Washington, DC -- At seven feet tall and featuring 55-inch screens, the 30 kiosks coming to downtown D.C. will be much more than glorified digital ad machines. Designed by New York–based Smart City Media, the kiosks will feature timely information relating to nearby restaurants, retail, events, and public transportation. This pilot program is led by private nonprofit DowntownDC Business Improvement District (BID), which is supported by the property owners within its 138-block area northeast of...
Nevada DOT Substantially Completes Project to Extend US 50 Cave Rock Tunnel Ahead of Schedule
CARSON CITY, Nev. - The Nevada Department of Transportation has substantially completed a project to enhance traveler safety and roadside water quality on U.S. 50 in the Cave Rock area of Lake Tahoe nearly one month ahead of schedule. All U.S. 50 travel lanes through Cave Rock are now open. Since the project's start in May, traffic had previously been reduced to one lane in each direction through the Cave Rock tunnel. The project extended the westbound, lakeside Cave Rock tunnel entrance. ...
NM Group Become First to Test Beyond-Visual-Line-of-Sight LiDAR UAV for Electricity Transmission in USA
In July 2016, a Midwest utility completed a project with NM Group to deploy an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with LiDAR technology testing its suitability for vegetation compliance analysis. This project was the first time a LiDAR equipped UAV has been tested Beyond Visual Line of Site (BVLOS) for a power utility. The project demonstrated the suitability of LiDAR scanning for vegetation management applications, and the capability of the platform to operate in a BVLOS capacity. Nick Ferguso...
LA’s Shade Balls Actually Worked
One year later, the shade balls in the Los Angeles Reservoir have been deemed a success by the L.A. Department of Water and Power.
New Lindapter Hollo-Bolt Design Data
Lindapter has published new figures for designing Hollo-Bolt connections to LRFD and ASD methods, in compliance with the International Building Code. As the only expansion bolt with full ICC-ES seismic approval, this data assures building officials and the wider building industry that the Hollo-Bolt meets I-Code requirements. Download Lindapter's new ICC-ES approval data here
Oldcastle Precast Supplies Retaining Wall System for PENNDOT’s Largest Project Ever
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (September 2016) – Oldcastle Precast, a specialist in manufacturing precast concrete components used in heavy highway and bridge construction, has supplied over 330,000-square-feet of The Neel Company’s Pennsylvania Department of Transportation approved T-WALL® Retaining Wall System for Philadelphia’s Interstate 95 Corridor Reconstruction Project. Ultimately, on separate contracts for Interstate-95 sections CP1, CP2, GR2, and GR3, Easton-based Oldcastle Precast manufactured...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
February Issue 2026
