Project Experiences

Lori Tobias - Thu April 14, 2016

Environmental Work Continues as Hwy. 20 Nears Completion

Part 3 of a 3-part series: As a 10-year project to straighten 10 mi. (16 km) of narrow, curving dangerous highway through the Oregon Coast Range nears completion, Oregonians eagerly await the chance to drive the new stretch of road....

Wed April 13, 2016

L.A. Transit Agency Maps Out How It May Spend $120B

LOS ANGELES (AP) Los Angeles County transportation officials have mapped out how they'd like to spend $120 billion that a potential sales tax increase would generate. The vision is to continue the traffic-choked region's public transit renaissance by extending subway and rail service, as well as adding new freeway miles and converting some carpool lanes to toll lanes....

Wed April 13, 2016

Nixon-Egli Has Right Equipment for Precision Cold Planing

Full Depth Reclamation (FDR) coupled with soil stabilization is rapidly becoming the norm in repaving jobs, and no one typifies the move to the “green” processes more than Precision Cold Planing of Yucaipa, Calif....

Jennifer Rupp - Wed April 13, 2016

Caltrans Aims to Open State Highway 3 by Memorial Day Weekend

After sustaining near drought conditions for the last several years, heavy rains took their toll on a section of State Highway 3 at Slate Creek between Weaverville and Trinity Center, Calif. On March 15, two sections of roadway measuring about 100 yds....

Chuck Harvey - Wed April 13, 2016

Crews Make Progress on San Francisco's St. Luke's Hospital

A $329 million project to replace San Francisco's St. Luke's Hospital with a modern, better-equipped facility is under way. The new structure is being built adjacent to the old hospital on Cesar Chavez and Guerrero Streets....

Andrea Watts - CEG Correspondent - Wed April 13, 2016

Washington Removes Barriers, Improves Fish Passage

The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is currently improving the traffic flow for a number of Western Washington residents. Yet these residents don't use the roadways; instead they travel in the streams flowing beneath the state's roadways and bridges....

Wed April 13, 2016

Osprey's New Housing Enables Inspections at Dent Bridge

An environmental innovation and agency collaboration may finally allow the inspection of the overhead cable saddles on the 1,500-ft. (457.2 m)-long Dent Bridge spanning the Dworshak Reservoir on the North Fork of the Clearwater River north of Orofino, Idaho....

Chuck Harvey - Wed April 13, 2016

Gaylord Rockies Begins $800M Colorado Project

An $800 million project to build a two-million-sq.-ft. (185,806 sq m) Gaylord Rockies Hotel and Convention Center kicked off with a Jan. 13 groundbreaking ceremony at the Aurora, Colo., site where vertical construction has begun....

Irwin Rapoport - Wed April 13, 2016

Massive Widening Job Nears End in Scottsdale

Crews from Pulice Construction Inc. are expected to complete the 2.5-year Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) project on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, near Scottsdale, Ariz., in the fall of 2016....

Cindy Riley - Wed April 13, 2016

ABAC Campus Advances With New $8.5M Building

Located on the north side of the Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (ABAC) campus in Tifton, Ga., the school's new laboratory sciences building will provide biology majors with the most current technology and techniques....