Irwin Rapoport - Wed September 07, 2016
MBTA Working to Update $1.9B Green Line Extension Construction Plan
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is currently preparing a new bidding process to complete the $1.992 billion Green Line Extension (GLX) project in the greater Boston area. Officials, consultants and commuter activists estimated that the project was $1 billion over budget based mainly on the bidding method....
Wed September 07, 2016
Skanska to Build $178M Women and Children's Health Building
Skanska has signed a contract to build the new Women and Children's Health Building for Christiana Care Health System in Newark, Del. The contract is worth $178 million and will be included in the order bookings for Skanska USA Building in the third quarter 2016....
Mon September 07, 2015
Making Every Minute Count: Albany Runway Rehabilitation
The business of an airport is to get people where they need to go, safely and on time. When an airport needs improvement, it needs to get the work done quickly, efficiently and correctly. Money talks, and the Albany International Airport made sure that their runway rehabilitation would be completed on time by instituting a $5,000 liquidated damages clause for every 15 minutes of delay in re-opening Runway 01-19....
Wed September 07, 2016
Bridge Work to Begin on Salisbury Bypass
The Maryland Department of Transportation's State Highway Administration (SHA) has begun a nearly two-year project to rehabilitate 11 bridges on U.S. 13/U.S. 50 (Salisbury Bypass) in Salisbury, Md....
Wed September 07, 2016
Gov. Cuomo Announces Completion of Track Laying for LIRR Double Track
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced the completion of new track laying between Central Islip and Ronkonkoma for the LIRR Double Track project. Work on the final phase between Farmingdale and Central Islip is already under way and on schedule to be completed in 2018....
Tue September 06, 2016
$10M Grant Approved for 'North Avenue Rising' Project
Federal, state and local officials gathered at Coppin State University to celebrate the award of a $10 million federal grant for the North Avenue Rising project in Baltimore City, which is part of the Hogan administration's transformative BaltimoreLink transit improvement plan....
Chris Carola - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tue September 06, 2016
Dig Extended at Site of 1750s British, American Encampments
LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (AP) An archaeological dig that was supposed to wrap up this week at an 18th century military site has yielded such intriguing artifacts the project has been extended, the archaeologist leading the excavations said....
Tue September 06, 2016
$1.15B Bond Gives American Dream Project Green Light
LYNDHURST (AP) A multibillion-dollar retail and entertainment complex in the Meadowlands sports complex is a step closer to completion. On Aug. 25, the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority approved amendments to two parts of a $1.15 billion bond that is to be issued in September....
Brenda Ruggiero - Tue September 06, 2016
New York Wheel Due to Spin in Early 2018
A new landmark attraction continues to rise on the New York Harbor in St. George, about a three-minute walk from the Staten Island Ferry Terminal. The New York Wheel will be either the tallest or second tallest observation wheel in the world when it opens (depending on when the wheel in Dubai opens)....
Tue September 06, 2016
Plug Pulled on Sandpiper Pipeline Project
The website EcoWatch is reporting that Enbridge and the North Dakota Pipeline Company submitted a petition Thursday to Withdraw their Public Utilities Commission application for the Sandpiper Pipeline Project....
