Engineered Solutions: RenewWrap<small><sup>®</sup></small>: Column Repair
Sponsored by: Milliken Infrastructure In June 2016, the South Carolina DOT (SCDOT) was in the midst of building a new interchange at the intersection of I-85/I-385 in Greenville, S.C. During construction, severe localized spalling was found on the cover concrete of one column of a two-column pier supporting the I-385 northbound ramp. Upon discovery, SCDOT and its consultant closed the ramp to all traffic until a detailed inspection could be made. A construction crew applies an...
Getting the Lights Back On in Puerto Rico: The Army Corps and Fluor Mount Massive Grid Restoration After Hurricane Maria
Hurricane Maria, which made landfall in Puerto Rico on September 2017, was the worst natural disaster ever to befall the U.S. commonwealth, and also the deadliest storm of the record-setting 2017 Atlantic hurricane season. With peak sustained winds of 175 miles per hour, Maria is officially a Category 5 hurricane, and the 10th most-intense hurricane on record. After devastating Dominica, leaving the island practically denuded of vegetation and housing, Maria moved on (slightly weakened) to Puert...
Beyond a Book Depository: Commack Public Library Reopens Following $8.3 Million Renovation
The renovated and expanded library features a two-story-high aluminum-andglass storefront entrance vestibule with an aluminum sunshade. The beloved, 41-year-old Commack Public Library in Commack, N.Y., reopened following an $8.3 million renovation and expansion by general contractor Stalco Construction and Beatty Harvey Coco Architects (BHC). The renovation was financed through a voter-approved $7.8 million bond issue, with an additional $500,000 from the library’s capital im...
Are Your Construction Projects Under Control? Five Steps for Modernizing Cost and Schedule Management
“Incompetency at every level.” Definitely not the type of expression that should be associated with a $9 billion project. But that’s the case with the now cancelled construction of the two nuclear reactors in South Carolina of which the political, social and economic effects will be felt long after the last workers leave the now-defunct site. This situation led many to use the all-too-familiar phrases: “Haven’t we been here before?” closely followed by “Why haven’t we learnt from thes...
Engineered Solutions: Precast Concrete Highway Slabs Expedite Caltrans Project
Precast concrete highway pavement slabs are increasing in popularity for rapid highway construction. This is, in part, the result of many state departments of transportation recognizing the efficiency of the precast slab method and selecting it for use on an increasing number of state projects. The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), for example, has specified precast concrete pavement slabs for one of the largest projects of this type in North America: the Pavement and Slab R...
A+ Infrastructure Begins Below the Surface
During summer 2008, the Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) funded construction of a seven-mile segment of the northbound lanes of Interstate 25, extending from the Colorado state line to Cheyenne in southeast Wyoming. The soft, aged soils beneath the road segment on this project were stabilized with geogrid, providing a construction platform so strong that the WYDOT eliminated the requirement for a spreader to be used on the concrete surface, which saved time and money. The resulting p...
Engineered Solutions: New Tool Enables Asset Protection and Reduced Cost Through Corrosion Management
Corrosion is a naturally occurring phenomenon commonly defined as the deterioration of a substance (usually a metal) or its properties because of a reaction with the environment. Like other natural hazards such as earthquakes or severe weather disturbances, corrosion can cause dangerous and expensive damage to the world’s infrastructure, including bridges, highways, buildings, pipelines, tanks, and water and wastewater systems. Unlike weather-related disasters, however, corrosion can be controll...
Strategic Sustainability: Fostering Environmental Awareness, Recycling and Compliance at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune
By Elizabeth Krousel and Alicia Filzen How do you motivate an entire base of U.S. Marines, civilian staff, their families and others on the base to seriously embrace environmental stewardship, sustainability and recycling—and therefore comply with long-standing executive orders—when their minds are focused largely on combat readiness? You engage their children. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, N.C., already had instituted a Strategic Sustainability Performance Plan and a Qua...
Hot-in-Place Asphalt Recycling Yields Benefits for Road Rehabilitation
Rehabilitating asphalt-paved roads has been growing in popularity thanks to the availability of more cost-effective solutions. One industry-leading method is hot-in-place recycling (HIR), an onsite method for deteriorated blacktop pavement rehabilitation. According to the Asphalt Recycling & Reclaiming Association, the three most-common HIR processes are surface recycling, surface repaving and surface remixing. 1. Surface recycling starts with recycling 1 to 2 inches of the asphalt, in ½-inch...
Sponsored Content: Reality modeling is everywhere!
Sponsored By: At Bentley Systems’ annual Be Inspired Awards ceremony, held on October 12 during The Year in Infrastructure Conference in Singapore, nominees were recognized for their BIM advancements in infrastructure. Ten independent jury panels of industry experts selected the 51 finalists from more than 400 nominations in more than 50 countries. In the BIM Advancements in Reality Modeling category, CEDD-AECOM-The Earth Solutions won for its Development of the Ande...
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