When, on Aug. 5, the Florida state board of All Aboard Florida’s request was approved to issue $1.75 billion in tax-exempt bonds to fund its planned 235-mile passenger-rail project, it signaled a key milestone for the company developing the Miami-to-Orlando transportation system.
On the night a massive landslide swamped State Route 530 near the community of Oso in Snohomish County, Wash.—killing 43 and seriously injuring 10—IMCO superintendent Brent Richards acted quickly to mobilize equipment and personnel to the area.
Randall L. Barr ranks the $299-million first phase of the overhaul of the San Ysidro Land Port of Entry linking Mexico and California—the world’s busiest border crossing—as a standout among his projects during a nearly 42-year career with contractor Hensel Phelps.
When Porsche-obsessed South Florida developer Gil Dezer told builders he wanted his 60-story condominium to have a car-elevator system so that residents could park their luxury vehicles inside their respective units, he was asking for something that had never been done.
Thanks to problems with elevator-cable girth, weight and sway, supertall-building specialists often get hung up on the ropes when designing towers taller than 500 or 600 meters.
One of Brazil’s go-to rigging contractors, Makro Engenharia, needed to reduce highway accidents when its mobile cranes were traveling from site to site.
Robert Harris, construction manager for Louisville’s $1.2-billion Downtown Crossing, downplays his role in coordinating a team of state engineers and design-build team members on Kentucky’s largest-ever project, a 2,100-ft-long, three-tower cable-stayed bridge connecting downtown Louisville to points north.
The “1,000-year” flood that wreaked havoc on South Carolina infrastructure last October took many residents and politicians by surprise, but Christy A. Hall spent a career getting ready for it.
Designing the complex repair of a century-old religious icon, damaged by a rare magnitude-5.8 earthquake in the nation’s capital, may have needed the hand of God or the patience of a saint, but its success is credited to the talents of a trained engineer.
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