This 1933 cover photo shows workers maneuvering a bomb into position on a platform in San Francisco Bay, at a very early stage of the Golden Gate Bridge project.
UAE-based National Marine Dredging Company has won a $272 million contract for dredging a section of the Suez Canal where the container ship Ever Given ran aground more than a year ago.
Ship channel's $238-million dredging project passed a key milestone last month as ships began using a new 48-ft draft standard; last phase will relocate or deepen up to six utility pipelines in the remaining 30 miles to Baton Rouge.
When Daniel O’Connell’s Sons won the construction contract in 2018 for the $122-million York Street Pump Station and Connecticut River Crossing project in Springfield, Mass., the owner’s designer, Kleinfelder, suggested pipe jacking to launch three new wastewater conveyance pipelines at the pump station that would run under a railroad and flood wall before crossing the river and passing through a levee to the Springfield Water & Sewer Commission treatment facility in Agawam, Mass.
Two projects have been awarded $215 million in an effort that will restore more than 4,600 acres of wetlands, coastal, and nearshore habitats in Louisiana.
Galveston, Texas-based Callan Marine Ltd. has been awarded a $97.9 million contract as part of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Corpus Christi Ship Channel Improvement Project, which aims to deepen and widen the channel. This is the second multi-million dollar contract awarded by the Corps’ Galveston District.
