Mary S. Yamin-Garone - Tue June 14, 2016
New York's Patroon Island Bridge Project Is Complete
One of the biggest road construction contracts in years in the Albany, N.Y. region — a project worth $148 million — recently was completed. “This was a complex project with a lot of moving parts....
Brenda Ruggiero - Tue June 14, 2016
Army Corps of Engineers Tidies Up Baltimore Harbor
Crews under contract of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District (Md.), are currently dredging roughly 2.6 million cu. yds. (1.9 million cu m) of material from the Baltimore Harbor and Channels navigation project....
Mon June 13, 2016
Wyo. Commission Awards $23M in Contracts at May Meeting
Bridge reconstruction and overlay work will move to the eastbound lanes on a 2-mi. (3.2 km) section of I-80 near Pine Bluffs during the 2016 and 2017 construction seasons. The Wyoming Transportation Commission awarded an $8 million contract to SEMA Construction Inc....
Mon June 13, 2016
Duke Begins Work on Solar Project in Quay County
Duke Energy Renewables announced construction has begun on the 25-megawatt (MW) Caprock Solar Power Project near Tucumcari in Quay County, N.M. The company acquired the project from Infigen Energy. With completion expected later this year, the solar installation will generate enough energy to power about 5,000 average homes....
Mon June 13, 2016
Coal Port Backer Halts Review Until Decisions on Treaty
SEATTLE (AP) The sponsor of a proposed Washington state coal port for shipments of the fuel to Asia is suspending work on an environmental review because of Native American tribe's concerns that the project could hurt its fishing rights....
Mon June 13, 2016
Loggers Recommend Doosan Equipment to Quarry Owner
Oregon quarry owner John Malnerich benefits from knowing and working with loggers in his state. He regularly sells them rock for constructing roads to their logging sites and some have become friends he turns to for advice....
Mon June 13, 2016
Take a Look at the Panama Canal's Newly Expanded Locks
PANAMA CITY (AP) A look at the Panama Canal and its newly expanded locks, which has its formal launch June 26. The CanalInaugurated on Aug. 15, 1914, the Panama Canal was constructed by the United States between 1904 and 1913 at a cost of $375 million, building on an earlier, French-led effort that fizzled out....
Mon June 13, 2016
Restaurant Turns Construction Horror Into Humor
The website Scottish Constuction Now is reporting that a Montreal restaurant is fighting the frustration of being located in the middle of a major construction zone with humor. The Hachoir restaurant is located at the intersection of Rachel and St-Denis streets — both of which are under construction....
Andrea Watts - CEG Correspondent - Fri June 10, 2016
New Weyerhaeuser Headquarters Set to Open in August
Weyerhaeuser will become downtown Seattle's newest tenant when the company moves into its brand-new corporate headquarters in the coming months. This eight-story building is billed by Urban Visions, the Seattle-based real estate development firm responsible for the project, as "a keystone project for Pioneer Square." Pioneer Square is a historic neighborhood currently undergoing a revitalization due to an influx of people and businesses moving to Seattle....
Keith Ridler - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Fri June 10, 2016
Feds Miss Cleanup Deadline at Nuke Facility
BOISE, Idaho (AP) Federal officials announced Friday they won't meet a September deadline to start converting 900,000 gal. (3.4 million L) of high-level radioactive liquid waste to a solid form at the Idaho National Laboratory in eastern Idaho....
