Tag: big projects

Construction Equipment

Crews pull half-mile, 30 million-pound bridge into place in record-breaking slide

Construction crews have completed a record-breaking bridge slide over the Ohio River. At nearly a half-mile in length and weighing in at more than 30 million pounds, the Milton-Madison bridge is a new steel truss bridge that replaces a span originally built in 1929. It is now the largest bridge in North America (perhaps the […]

April 14, 2014

Construction Equipment

PHOTOS: Amazing images of subway construction in the man-made caverns below New York City

[imagebrowser id=58] Back in June we showed you a handful of pictures from deep below New York City. And while they depicted ongoing construction on the city’s Second Avenue Subway, they looked like more something out of a sci-fi movie. The Second Avenue Subway is the first line to be built in NYC since 1932. […]

April 7, 2014

Business

Can Texas make high-speed rail work? California can’t

For the last few years, I’ve been critical of California’s attempts to link Los Angeles to San Francisco with a high-speed rail line. It’s not that I’m reflexively against passenger rail. It’s just that California is such a political zoo, I don’t think they can do anything well when it comes to the bread-and-butter responsibilities […]

April 1, 2014

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Lady Bird is the 1,300-ton tunnel-boring machine digging DC’s 13-mile sewer tunnel (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

[imagebrowser id=46] Each year in Washington, D.C., about 2 billion gallons of raw sewage is dumped into the Potomac River, the Anacostia River and Rock Creek, according to a report from the Washington Post. But Lady Bird, a massive tunnel-boring machine, is working to change that. The machine is digging a $2.6 billion 13-mile tunnel system […]

March 19, 2014

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Construction of China’s Sky City, soon-to-be world’s tallest building, extended from 90 days to 7 months

After setting an aggressive goal to build the world’s tallest building in only 90 days, the builders behind China’s planned Sky City have backed off a bit and now say construction will instead take seven months. As The Atlantic Cities reports, the building received approval from the Chinese government last week. Sky City will be […]

May 28, 2013

Business

Budget for Apple’s new HQ balloons to $5 billion, would be a challenge for any contractor

Back in November, it was reported that the completion of Apple’s spaceship-like Campus 2 headquarters would be delayed from 2015 to 2016. Now, a report from Bloomberg says that in the meantime, the budget for the project has ballooned from $3 billon to $5 billion. If you’re not well acquainted with this mammoth project, the […]

April 8, 2013

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Workers install base of spire at One World Trade Center

Workers at the the construction site of One World Trade Center installed the first piece of the building’s spire on January 15, the AP reported. Once the spire is complete, the 104-floor skyscraper will be the tallest in the Western Hemisphere. The nearly 70-ton piece arrived in Manhattan on December 12. It’s the heaviest of […]

January 16, 2013