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USDOT partners with mobile solar technology firm for Smart City Challenge
The U.S. Department of Transportation has partnered with mobile solar technology firm DC Solar Solutions for the agency’s Smart City Challenge. The company will provide $1.5 million worth of electric vehicle chargers and mobile solar generators to the winning city. The Smart City Challenge is designed to convert one city in to the first in […]
June 22, 2016
Roadbuilding
How crews removed Portland’s old Sellwood Bridge in one piece
The time-lapse video below shows Portland’s old Sellwood Bridge, which was built in 1925, being moved to temporary supports on January 19, 2013, so that a new bridge could be constructed in its place. You can view another time-lapse of the new bridge construction here. Omega Morgan was the company hired to move the 3,400-ton truss bridge, […]
June 16, 2016
Roadbuilding
Study shows Portland highways are either at capacity or nearly there
Drivers in Oregon probably noticed their commute has been getting significantly more lengthy this year, and a new study found most drivers could already tell: highways in the state are way too crowded. The Oregonian reported the Oregon Department of Transportation conducted a study over the past week which found most of the state’s highways are either at […]
August 17, 2015
Roadbuilding
Suburbs become more bicycle friendly
Many young Americans are driving less than in previous years, and cities are reacting by adding more options, including bike and pedestrian paths. So it’s no surprise that when the League of American Bicyclists released its latest list of Bicycle Friendly Communities (BFC) on Tuesday, the association announced that suburbs had joined other communities on […]
October 15, 2013
Construction Equipment
Construction worker punches bank robber into a jail cell
If it wasn’t bad enough that alleged bank robber Frazer Piccolo was literally caught red-handed, his capture was assisted by a construction worker with a mean right hook. According to a report from KPTV in Portland, Oregon, the 44-year-old Piccolo entered the Bank of the West on Division St., at 10:45 a.m. Monday before passing […]
August 21, 2013
Technology
Boise State construction management students required to use iPads as tablets become more commonplace on jobsites
Casey Cline, a professor at Boise State University who teaches construction management, calls iPads “essential” to “the new way” of managing projects on the jobsite these days. That’s why, according to a report from the Associated Press, he’s requiring freshman students in his class to use iPads. Before they graduate, Cline wants his students to know […]
August 6, 2013
Roadbuilding
Portland engineers use dish soap to move century-old bridge
Engineers in Portland, Oregon, had to get creative when they needed to replace the Sellwood Bridge. Cracks had begun to appear in the support beams of the 100-year-old bridge, and, as our sister site, Equipment World, reported, the structure’s unique design forced the engineers to move the bridge in one whole 1,100-foot piece. The engineers […]
July 10, 2013
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How to move a bridge with dish soap
When cracks began to form in the Sellwood Bridge’s supports, engineers in Portland, Oregon were faced with an extreme challenge when it came to replacing the nearly century-old bridge: they had to move the whole thing at once. According to Popular Mechanics, the engineers wanted to slide the existing bridge over a bit to create […]
July 3, 2013
Roadbuilding
OTREC researchers explore e-bike perceptions
Two Portland state researchers are working on ways to encourage more people to travel on bicycles, according to a report from the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium (OTREC). Researchers Jennifer Dill and John MacArthur are exploring people’s perceptions–particularly those of women, older adults and people with physical limitations–of electric-assist bikes, more commonly known as […]
June 4, 2013
Roadbuilding
Slow trains going faster
Anderson Cooper upsets people. I like that. It’s a big part of what he’s supposed to do. This time it’s the high speed rail folk (and it’s not their first time because Cooper has been here before). Their complaint is that Cooper and some of his CNN colleagues are on a mission to undermine high […]
April 12, 2013
Roadbuilding
The Man Who Slides Bridges
Any story is valuable if it can show us how to do our work better. And especially when that work is big, massively expensive, part of our daily lives and paid for by tax dollars. For example, an old bridge that serves as a temporary route while the new bridge is being built. Better Roads […]
April 8, 2013
Roadbuilding
A Million Bicycles
We know Portland is out there. It’s a city with a lot of new stuff going on and a lot of stereotype-bending and mold-breaking when it comes to lifestyle and living. And so, of course, it has a leadership role in the resurgence of bikes as a mainstream form of transportation. We knew that. But […]
April 2, 2013
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