Thu November 03, 2016
Tokyo Struggling With Costs of 2020 Olympic Games
TOKYO (AP) - The head of a Tokyo government cost-cutting panel has criticized 2020 Olympic organizers for not cooperating on recommendations designed to reduce spiraling expenses for the games. The panel has said the cost of the Tokyo Olympics could exceed $30 billion _ four times the initial estimate - unless drastic cuts are made....
Thu November 03, 2016
Time-Lapse Video: A Look at the Demolition of the MLK Bridge
LAS VEGAS (KTNV) - The demolition of the Martin Luther King Boulevard bridge is well underway as part of Project Neon. The Nevada Department of Transportation has provided a timelapse video showing the construction equipment tearing parts of the bridge down over a period of several days....
Cindy Riley - Thu November 03, 2016
Largest S.D. Solar Farm to Power About 200 Households
With construction just completed, the largest solar farm in South Dakota has officially started producing electricity. Officials held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the $2 million solar farm at the Pierre airport, with a sizable crowd in attendance....
Dick Rohland - Thu November 03, 2016
MnDOT Opens Mississippi River Crossing
The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) opened a new Mississippi River crossing on schedule to the eager residents of a southern, Minnesota community using for the first time a new construction procurement process to speed up design and construction on a new bridge— the Winona Bridge, Highway 43 Mississippi River Crossing....
Thu November 03, 2016
Vegas Monorail Pitching Plan for Extension Toward Stadium
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Operators of the Las Vegas Monorail are pitching a plan to county lawmakers to extend the elevated people-mover closer to the site where a 65,000-seat football stadium could be built. Monorail officials are scheduled Wednesday to ask the Clark County Commission for up to two years to arrange funding to extend the 3.9-mile track about a mile farther down the Strip - from the current end of the line at the MGM Grand resort to the Mandalay Bay....
Jon Gambrell - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thu November 03, 2016
Legoland Becomes First Brick in Dubai's Southern Expansion
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) A massive amusement complex in Dubai's southern desert opened its first park on Oct. 31 — a Legoland with interlocking plastic blocks that both model the sheikhdom's architectural wonders and represent the first bricks laid in developing the expanse....
Wed November 02, 2016
New St. Croix Bridge Won't Open Until 2017
STILLWATER, Minn. (AP) Due to problems attributed to its complex design, the St. Croix River Bridge has fallen a year behind schedule. The mile-long bridge that'll connects Minnesota and Wisconsin involves an estimated 42.3 million pounds of steel and 564 million pounds of concrete, the Star Tribune reported....
Eric D. Lawrence - DETROIT FREE PRESS - Wed November 02, 2016
Law Prevents Historic Road From Earning Honor
MONROE, Mich. (AP) The wooden remnants of a centuries-old military road known as Hull's Trace emerge when the water level is low near the spot where the Huron River empties into Lake Erie. A road has been in this spot underneath modern-day West Jefferson Avenue in what is now the southern tip of Wayne County for more than 200 years, connecting Ohio and Detroit....
Wed November 02, 2016
Jury: City Owes Property Owner $3M for Light-Rail Construction
The Phoenix, Arizona website AZCentral is reporting that a Maricopa County jury has awarded nearly $3 million in damages to the owner of a downtown Phoenix parking lot because light-rail construction cut off access from the lot to an arterial street....
Wed November 02, 2016
Construction Climate Challenge Funds New Environmental Research
The Construction Climate Challenge initiative (CCC), which promotes sustainability throughout the entire construction industry, has awarded funding to two innovative research projects that intend to reduce climate impact in construction....
