September 23, 2011 — The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) used accelerated bridge construction (ABC) techniques, including using pre-cast components, this past summer to replace the M-25 bridge over the White River in rural Huron County. ABC allows for bridges like this to be built faster while saving money and reducing delays for motorists. – […]
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Posted by Content Coordinator on Monday, September 26th, 2011Sutter County, California: Levee Repairs Underway
Posted by Infra on Wednesday, September 21st, 2011Repairs to damage on a section of the northern levee of the Natomas Cross Canal in Sutter County began in the week following Labor Day, and should be completed by October 1, 2011. The Reclamation District 1001 levee, which protects the Nicolaus basin, was damaged during a high water episode during the March 2011 storms. […]
View this complete Show Us Your Infra! submission...Washington: SR 520 — Bellevue Way Demolition
Posted by Infra on Tuesday, September 20th, 2011Crews demolished the western half of the Bellevue Way overpass Sept. 16-19, 2011, to make room for a wider bridge with a shared use bicycle/pedestrian path and landscaping. The work is part of the SR 520 Eastside Transit and HOV Project, which widens SR 520 from four to six lanes from Medina to Bellevue and […]
View this complete Show Us Your Infra! submission...Louisville, Kentucky to New Albany, Indiana: Sherman Minton Bridge Shut Down Indefinitely
Posted by Infra on Friday, September 16th, 2011Friday September 9 during Rush hour the Sherman Minton Bridge was abruptly shut down due to engineers finding cracks in the major supports of the Bridge. – vahlhala56 on YouTube
View this complete Show Us Your Infra! submission...Plano, Texas: Environmental Education Center Construction
Posted by Infra on Thursday, September 15th, 2011Plano’s Environmental Education Center is open but here’s a look back at its construction in early 2010. – cityofplanotexas on YouTube
View this complete Show Us Your Infra! submission...Ferry Division: Reconnecting the Outer Banks, North Carolina
Posted by Infra on Wednesday, September 14th, 2011When Hurricane Irene sliced through the Outer Banks; it did more than just destroy sections of N.C. 12, south of Nags Head. It severed a lifeline for the people that call North Carolina’s coast home. Now, the N.C. Department of Transportation has created a new lifeline — one that connects communities not by land, but […]
View this complete Show Us Your Infra! submission...Minnesota: Road Construction Shifts to North Side
Posted by Infra on Tuesday, September 13th, 2011Minnesota 2020 is a progressive, new media, non-partisan think tank focused on what really matters. Our daily reporting and research informs, frames and drives public policy debate on the issues that matter for Minnesota’s future success: education, health care, transportation and economic development.- MN2020 on YouTube
View this complete Show Us Your Infra! submission...Tacoma, Washington: Time Lapse of Schatz Lab Construction
Posted by Infra on Friday, September 9th, 2011A time-lapse video composed of photographs taken between the start of construction in February 2009 and the completion of landscaping in August 2011. – SchatzLab on YouTube “At the Schatz Energy Research Center (SERC) on California’s North Coast, we are working to establish clean energy technologies in our society. We specialize in renewable energy, energy […]
View this complete Show Us Your Infra! submission...Freight trains at Oklahoma City
Posted by Infra on Thursday, September 8th, 2011Train 1 – 0:57 Train 2 – 4:17 On this gorgeous Labor Day Monday, I drove up to Oklahoma City and caught two northbound BNSF trains along “Crossing Alley.” I saw the first train between NW 12th St and NW 11th St, and the train was well overpowered with a total of six locomotives. The […]
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