Structural Engineering Finalists and Winner, Year in Infrastructure 2016
Read this Informed Infrastructure supplement showcasing the Finalists and Winner for the Bentley Systems 2016 Be Inspired Award for Innovation in Structural Engineering.
President Signs WIIN Act Containing Water Supply Cost Savings Act Provisions Championed by Water Systems Council Into Law
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, 2016 - President Obama has signed the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act into law, which includes provisions of the Water Supply Cost Savings Act championed by the Water Systems Council and other leading water well industry groups over the past three years. Originally introduced in the 113th Congress on September 18, 2014, the Water Supply Cost Savings Act ("Savings Act") was incorporated into the WIIN Act legislation earlier this year. Over the...
A Scenic, Secure Thriller: Elk Falls Park Suspension Bridge Provides Sensitive Access to Canadian Treasure
By Angus W. Stocking, L.S. Elk Falls, beautifully cascading for 89 feet (27 meters), is the centerpiece of Elk Falls Provincial Park on Vancouver Island. By all accounts, it’s one of Canada’s most-scenic waterfalls, but for most of the park’s existence, Elk Falls has been underappreciated simply because it’s difficult to see. The falls tumble down into a small, misty, heavily wooded and very steep canyon with no trails, and only the very agile and slightly reckless can scramble to van...
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Congress Approves Water Projects Bill
The Senate voted 78 to 21, early on Dec. 10, to approve a bill that authorizes navigation, flood control and drinking water projects. That sent the measure to President Obama to sign into law. The House had passed the bill 360-61 on Dec. 8 and sent it to the Senate. capitol0816.jpgWhat was previously called the Water Resources Development Act had been recast in the final House-Senate conference version as the Water Infrastructure Improvements Act for the Nation, or WIIN Act. It also includ...
New Report Documents Progress and Needed Investment to Move Freight Programs Forward In the 21st Century
WASHINGTON –The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials and the American Association of Port Authorities are today releasing a national freight infrastructure report, The State of Freight II—Implementing the FAST Act and Beyond, marking the one-year anniversary of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act. “Transportation matters more today than ever before, and this report serves as a blueprint for state DOTs, Congress and the new administration in Was...
BIM Breakthrough: Historic Grand Paris Express Employs BIM on Monumental Scale
When the original Paris Metro system was built more than a century ago, it connected all the most vital parts of the city. But Paris has changed a lot in 116 years. Now outlying neighborhoods are home to Europe’s largest business district, the world’s largest produce market, several universities and areas with denser populations than Paris itself. The Grand Paris Express (GPE) aims to ease travel to and from these outlying neighborhoods by adding four new metro lines, extending two ex...
Optimizing Time with VDC:Steel
By Josh Zimmerman Project teams are beginning to integrate services inhouse, including steel fabrication, to optimize overall cost and shorten timelines. In the past, the steel fabricator hired a detailing firm, who then created its own model and set of drawings. In the new approach, the detailing is scheduled up-front instead of in the middle of the project—typically about 60 percent of the way through the design phase. This article details some key considerations to optimize al...
Sliding Girder Installer in Northern Idaho Saves State $161,000, Reduces bridge Closures by Months
COEUR d'ALENE - Foreman Gene Anderson and his three-man District 1 Bridge & Building crew leveraged creation of a sliding girder installer to complete repairs to the 56-year-old Interstate 90 Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge in just three weeks this spring, saving about $161,000 and shaving three months off the closure. The work was recognized with a department Excellence in Transportation award Nov. 17 in the Maintenance & Operations category, and the sliding girder innovation was also named one o...
Milbank Advises Lenders in Historic $920 Million Water Pipeline Project for San Antonio, Texas
LOS ANGELES – Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP has advised international lenders led by Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. in connection with financing for the $920 million Vista Ridge Project, a water pipeline and well field that is expected to provide 20% more water to the city of San Antonio for at least the next 30 years. The water supply project, being built by Garney Construction, will consist of the production, treatment, delivery and sale to San Antonio Water System of up to 50,000 acre...
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