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This is the twelfth in a series of entries celebrating infrastructure achievements in the United States.
View this complete post...John Hennessy III,
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This is the twelfth in a series of entries celebrating infrastructure achievements in the United States.
View this complete post...Merced California G Street Underpass Construction Photo Time Lapse – CityOfMerced on YouTube
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Los Angeles is home to year-round sunshine and an entrepreneurial spirit. As such, it has the potential to be the national leader in solar power and clean energy jobs. Further, thanks to an abundance of training programs, Los Angeles boasts a trained workforce ready for jobs in solar installation, design, sales and more. Unfortunately, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LA DWP) has failed to take advantage of the tremendous environmental and economic potential that solar power offers our region. As a result, Los Angeles has unwittingly forfeited significant opportunities to take leadership in this growing industry, meet the renewable energy goals mandated by state law, and create thousands of local jobs.
Innovation NewsBriefs Vol. 22, No. 31 California’s Bullet Train in the Court of Public Opinion A business plan released on November 1 by the the California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA), has placed the price tag for the LA-SF bullet train project at $98 billion— trippling the $33 billion estimate provided in 2008 in the voter-approved […]
View this complete post...CALIFORNIA TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION
Today, California’s transportation system is in jeopardy. Investments to preserve transportation systems simply have not kept pace with the demands on them, and this underfunding – decade after decade – has led to the decay of one of the state’s greatest assets. Failing to adequately invest in the restoration of California’s roads,
highways, bridges, airports, seaports, railways, border crossings, and public transit infrastructure will lead to further decay and a deterioration of service from which it may take many years to recover. The future of the state’s economy and our quality of life depend on a transportation system that is safe and reliable, and which moves people and goods efficiently
This happened about 12:30 am to 3 am on a Saturday night — road crews removed large chunks of the freeway, prepared the underlying dirt, and poured fresh concrete on 880 SB outside the Cotton Mill Studio in Oakland. – mcheung on YouTube
View this complete post...Westfield required an extremely quick schedule in order to open the parking structure in time to support an annual tennis tournament that takes place at the mall on the 4th of July weekend. The total precast Design-Manufacture-Construction approach provided a very lean and efficient delivery of the parking structure. The duration from ground breaking to […]
View this complete post...Repairs 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 post...This is the sixth in a series of entries celebrating infrastructure achievements in the United States.
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