Mon March 28, 2016
VIDEO: Unions Walk Out, Halt Construction of Apple 'Spaceship'
Local San Francisco CBS News Affiliate KPIX is reporting that construction of Apple's new $5 billion “Spaceship” campus was brought to a standstill last week, as unions are locked in a stalemate over worker wages....
Fri March 25, 2016
Rio Olympics Builder Targeted in Corruption Probe
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Brazilians authorities carried out a wave of searches and detentions linked to the Odebrecht construction company on Tuesday, accusing it of having a department that oversaw payment of bribes on projects including an airport, a subway and a World Cup soccer stadium....
Thu March 24, 2016
Homeowners Sue Road Repair Contractor
The New Orleans Times-Picayune is reporting that a group of Uptown homeowners have sued a Harahan-based construction company alleging that their historic homes in the Prytania Street corridor have been damaged by the firm's heavy equipment and negligence during a road-repair project that started last March....
Irwin Rapoport - Wed March 23, 2016
MnDOT's Hwy. 5 Project Enters Second Phase
The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) is spending $13.8 million to rebuild the deck of the Highway 5 bridge/West 7th Street Bridge, an east-west, 1,999-ft. (609.3 m) long span (two lanes in each direction) across the Mississippi River....
Thu March 24, 2016
Seattle Tunnel Injury Claims Total Over $2.5M So Far
SEATTLE (AP) - An amputated foot, a fractured hand and a fingertip crushed so badly it had to be surgically removed were among the injuries suffered by workers at the Seattle tunnel project last year - injuries that resulted in about $700,000 in workers' compensation claims for one year alone....
Mon March 21, 2016
Things to Know About California's $15.7B Giant Twin Tunnels Project
CLARKSBURG, Calif. (AP) - California is proposing its most ambitious water project in a half-century. At $15.7 billion, it would run two giant tunnels, each four stories high, for 35 miles under the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in Northern California, sending water to cities and farms to the south....
Tom Odula - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tue March 22, 2016
Roar of Construction Work Scaring Lions
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) A leading Kenyan wildlife expert has said the noise from road construction is scaring lions out of Nairobi National Park and could lead to the death of people or the lions. A lion injured a 63-old man March 18 after it strayed from the Nairobi park into a major highway during the morning rush hour....
Mon March 21, 2016
RIDOT Establishes Weight Limit on Mink Street Bridge
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) announced that effective March 2, a weight limit for trucks was in place on the Runnins River Bridge, which carries Mink Street over the Runnins River on the Rhode Island/Massachusetts border in East Providence....
Irwin Rapoport - Mon March 21, 2016
ConnDOT's I-95 West River Bridge Reconstruction Proceeding on Schedule
With the West River Bridge (built in 1958) nearing the end of its serviceable life, the Connecticut Department of Transportation (ConnDOT), agreed in 2012 to replace the 1,020 ft. (311 m)-long bridge linking New Haven and West Haven....
Brian M. Fraley - Mon March 21, 2016
ECA Drilling Rigs a Perfect Fit for Viaduct Replacement
A Bauer BG 18 H rotary drilling rig sits wedged between an earthen embankment, a shotcrete-covered bridge abutment, a maze of rusty steel trestles and the underside of a historic railroad viaduct in Swarthmore, Pa., on a glacial January morning....
