Project Experiences

Tue September 06, 2016

Groff Tractor Donates Case Equipment for Storm Cleanup

On Sunday evening, August 28, 2016, over five inches of rain fell in a short period of time in the Connellsville and Bullskin, Pennsylvania area. The massive amount of rain caused detrimental flooding to the towns....

Chuck Harvey - Fri September 02, 2016

Initial Phase of $155M Mountain View Corridor Under Way

A project to construct new lanes and bridges along a 2-mi. (3.2 km) northern stretch of Utah's Mountain View Corridor on state Route 85 from 5400 South north to 4100 South in Salt Lake and Utah counties is progressing....

Fri September 02, 2016

Idaho's Meridian Road Interchange Rebuild Wins Engineering Achievement Award

The recently completed reconstruction of the Meridian Interchange, originally built in 1965, won the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Southern Idaho section award for Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement in a category for projects costing greater than $10 million....

Fri September 02, 2016

Cost of Expanding Convention Center in Seattle Goes Up

SEATTLE (AP) The cost of expanding the Washington State Convention Center in downtown Seattle has grown to $1.6 billion, an increase of $200 million. The Seattle Times reports the convention center has also hired a new team of contractors to replace those it fired in March over cost concerns....

Keith Ridler - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Fri September 02, 2016

Plan to Raise Arrowrock Dam Fails Feasibility Study

BOISE, Idaho (AP) Hopes of Idaho officials to increase the height of a Boise River dam to double water storage and also create enough space to handle a 500-year flood ran aground after the project failed a federal feasibility study....

Fri September 02, 2016

Deschutes County Site in Running for National Geothermal Research Lab

BEND, Ore. (AP) The U.S. Department of Energy is considering a site in Oregon's Deschutes County for a national geothermal research lab. The land near Newberry Volcano is leased by Seattle-based geothermal firm AltaRock Energy Inc., which performs testing there....

Lori Tobias - Fri September 02, 2016

Seismic Program Grants $1B to Retrofit Schools

It hasn't always been common knowledge that the Pacific Northwest from northern California to Vancouver, B.C., is vulnerable to a mega earthquake. Scientists only grew savvy to the potential for the Cascadia Subduction Zone off the west coast to rupture in recent decades....

Thu September 01, 2016

Protestors Try to Thwart Dakota Access Pipeline Work Again

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - Arrests have been made in North Dakota and Iowa during protests against the construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline. Authorities cut free a man who bound himself to construction equipment and arrested at least two protesters Wednesday during a rally near Highway 6 outside St....

Thu September 01, 2016

LAFC Owners Break Ground on $350M Banc of California Stadium

The Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC) together with supporters, city and county leaders and representatives from Major League Soccer, broke ground on its new 22,000-seat soccer-specific venue named Banc of California Stadium on Aug....

Thu September 01, 2016

Girders Go Up on Tuolumne Street Bridge in Fresno Ahead of Schedule

Construction crews placed the first of 42 massive steel and concrete girders on the new Tuolumne Street Bridge in downtown Fresno. The placement of these girders signifies the midway point of the construction for the bridge....