PHOENIX – Less than six months after major construction began on the state’s largest single highway project ever, progress on the Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway has been swift. In Ahwatukee Foothills, future interchanges are taking shape at 17th Avenue…
NASA’s TASAR Trial Takes Flight on Alaska Airlines With Installation of UTC Aerospace Systems’ Aircraft Data Management Solution
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - UTC Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), today announced that Alaska Airlines has completed installation…
UAS Improves Project Efficiency in Complex Runway Redesign
With the recent addition of new pilots across multiple disciplines at Woolpert, we are constantly leveraging unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) technology…
Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program to Expire in 2 years
BAXTER SPRINGS, Kan. (AP) — One of Baxter Springs' most iconic stops on its most iconic highway owes a lot to a federal program that could soon reach the end of its road. Likewise for historic sites in Carthage and elsewhere along Route 66, which linked…
T.Y. Lin International Wins 2017 IBC Arthur G. Hayden Medal for Idaho Avenue Pedestrian Overcrossing
SAN FRANCISCO - T.Y. Lin International (TYLI), a globally recognized, full-service infrastructure consulting firm, announces that the Idaho Avenue Pedestrian Overcrossing (POC) in Santa Monica, California, has been awarded the prestigious 2017 International…
Only Thing Moving on Highway 1 is Dirt
LOS ANGELES — Geologists and engineers crowded a conference room in San Luis Obispo last week to address the latest assault upon California’s most revered roadway. Yet another stretch of Highway 1, that improbable serpentine artery hemming the continent’s…
Amtrak’s Summer Repairs at NY Penn Station to Disrupt Rail Service Across Northeast
The Amtrak passenger rail system's preliminary plan for making vital repairs at New York City's busy Penn Station will disrupt train service across a region that extends to Washington, D.C., and Harrisburg, Pa., as well as affecting commuters in New York and…
Work Zone Crisis: 44 Percent of Contractors Report Vehicle Crashes at Construction Sites
In a new report that starkly highlights the risk to workers as well as motorists in highway work zones, 44 percent of roadway contractors said vehicles had crashed into their construction sites in the past year, for a 13 percent jump from 2016 and including…
Metro Regional Connector Tunnel Boring Machine Surfaces at New L.A. Station
The $1.55 Billion Metro Regional Connector Transit Project, a 1.9-mile long subterranean twin rail tunnel linking L.A.’s Gold, Blue and Expo lines, last week punched through the site of the future 2nd/Hope Station in Bunker Hill. The tunnels, scheduled to…
Oldcastle Precast Bridge Projects Win Design Excellence Awards
REHOBOTH, Mass. (JUNE 2017) – Oldcastle Precast’s Skilton Road Bridge Rehabilitation and Interstate-10 Tex Wash Bridge Emergency Replacement Projects were recipients of Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute’s (PCI) 2016 Design Excellence Awards. During…
