Hennepin County’s Lowry Avenue Bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, will open in the Fall of 2012. Shot over two days in October 2011, this time lapse video is composed of 11,000+ photos. The precast edge girders were built on site, moved by barge, and lifted into place. Each girder is approximately 155 […]
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Minneapolis, MN: Lowry Avenue Bridge Construction Time Lapse – Girders on the River
Monday, July 30th, 2012Phoenix, AZ: Loop 303/Greenway Road Construction Bypass
Friday, January 27th, 2012Uploaded by ArizonaDOT on YouTube.
Remember this awesome time-lapse video showing the construction of a temporary bypass at Greenway Road and the Loop 303?
Well, today we’ve got an even more in-depth look at how crews built the new intersection – complete with temporary barriers, fences and traffic signals – in just about 43 hours!
View this complete post...Roseville, CA: Time lapse construction of Total Precast Parking Structure
Friday, October 7th, 2011Westfield 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...The Benefits of Private Investment in Infrastructure
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
SPHERE CONSULTING
-Jointly public and private investment in infrastructure can create millions of jobs. The private sector is already largely responsible for designing, building, and financing our nation’s infrastructure and can do more.
-Over $250 bn of private capital has been raised, and some additional legislative and administrative changes could accelerate infrastructure projects and enhance funding.
-Private investment in infrastructure frees government dollars for allocation to other troubled areas of the economy and transfers risk away from the public partner to the private entity.
Minnesota: Road Construction Shifts to North Side
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 post...CN Construction
Friday, June 17th, 2011Gig Harbor, 2007, Construction of the Tacoma Bridge
Thursday, June 16th, 2011Gig Harbor, WA 2007, Construction of the Tacoma Bridge – Jameshistory on YouTube
View this complete post...Utah: MVC Construction Progress Update February 2011
Friday, February 25th, 2011The Mountain View Corridor is a new roadway which requires extensive grading and excavation (earthwork), relocating utilities, acquiring property, constructing drainage systems, building bridges and structures, and laying new pavement. Take a look at the progress.
View this complete post...Silver Spring, MD: Transit Center Construction
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011Roughly one image per week showing construction of the Paul S. Sarbanes Transit Center in Silver Spring, Maryland from 6/12/2009 through 12/21/2010.
View this complete post...Ask The White House: Question 1 (Infrastructure Spending)
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010The White House asked and job seekers answered! We were so pleased with the responses we received on job growth and recovery efforts, and have provided the White House with the questions that were “liked” the most by our Facebook community and sparked the most engaging conversation. Austan Goolsbee, Chair of the Council of Economic […]
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