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November 3, 2021Johanna Knapschaefer, Jim Parsons, Mark Shaw, and Debra K. Rubin https://www.enr.com/articles/52886-election-2021-recap-1b-ne-power-project-underway-is-rejected-texas-va-pass-big-funding-measures Among other developments in the U.S. non-presidential election on Nov. 2, a 60% majority of Maine voters rejected Central Maine Power’s $1-billion underway hydropower corridor project in a statewide ballot referendum, but utility owner Avangrid filed suit the next day in state court, claiming the…

OCTOBER 19 2021 https://www.aisc.org/modernsteel/news/2021/october/aisc-seeks-new-ideas-for-rigid-connections/ Structural steel is already the gold standard for rapid erection. But what if we could make it even faster? AISC is offering $5,000 for up to three great ideas to revolutionize steel floor beam connections. Your back-of-the-napkin, so-crazy-it-just-might-work concept could become the next revolutionary, non-proprietary connection system! The key words are FAST and…

Thomas F. Armistead https://www.enr.com/articles/52573-first-contract-awarded-for-35b-everglades-restoration-project?oly_enc_id=7954G6929523I3L Work on the first increment of construction on the A-2 Reservoir in the Everglades Agricultural Area south of Florida’s Lake Okeechobee will begin in November, following award of a $79.8-million fixed-price contract to Phillips and Jordan Inc. by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The contract calls for construction of the…

Scott Van Voorhis https://www.enr.com/articles/52575-17b-boston-highway-project-takes-big-leap-forward The days may finally be numbered now for the rusting, nearly three-quarters-of-a-mile-long Massachusetts Turnpike viaduct that looms over the Charles River, cutting through the city’s Allston neighborhood at Boston’s western gateway. State transportation officials recently announced they will pursue plans to tear down the 1960s viaduct as part of a massive $1.7…

https://www.aisc.org/modernsteel/news/2021/september/a-grateful-industry-recognizes-structural-engineers-on-the-20th-anniversary-of-911/ As the nation solemnly marks the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, we’d like to take a moment to thank a very special group of people who answered the call and offered their expertise in a time of great need: structural engineers. As first responders combed through the debris at ground zero, engineers, many…

https://www.enr.com/articles/52082-first-us-standard-on-disproportionate-collapse-coming-soon This summer, the Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers expects to release, for public comment, a draft of the first U.S. consensus standard addressing disproportionate collapse of structures. The ASCE-SEI Disproportionate Collapse Mitigation of Building Structures Standard Committee, which has nearly 50 members, started work on the standard in 2009,…

https://www.enr.com/articles/52017-2021-top-500-sourcebook-making-way-for-freight A six-mile segment of Interstate 15 in San Bernardino County, Calif., will be augmented with tolled express lanes to provide much-needed capacity for the corridor’s growing volume of freight traffic. Nearly 200 million sq ft of distribution facilities are located within five miles of the segment, which already averages 223,000 vehicles per day and…

Engineer who conducted inspection says all documents are now submitted https://www.enr.com/articles/52064-north-miami-beach-rejects-as-incomplete-2nd-engineering-inspection-report-from-evacuated-condo July 8, 2021 Richard Korman North Miami Beach has rejected a new engineering inspection report provided by the Crestview Towers condominium association, keeping about 300 evacuated residents from returning to their apartments and raising new questions about engineering inspection reports in the aftermath of the Champlain…

JULY 2 2021 https://www.aisc.org/modernsteel/news/2021/july/new-wendy-park-pedestrian-bridge-connects-cleveland-residents-to-lake-erie-waterfront/ On June 24, just in time for Fourth of July festivities, Cleveland Metroparks opened the Wendy Park Bridge, a 500-ft-long pedestrian bridge that provides a new link between downtown Cleveland and waterfront parks alongside Lake Erie. The bridge is one of the final elements in the $16.45 million “Re-Connecting Cleveland” federal Transportation Investment…

I-40 BRIDGE PHASE 1 REPAIR COMPLETED ONLY TWO WEEKS AFTER FRACTURE DISCOVERED https://www.aisc.org/modernsteel/news/2021/june/i-40-bridge-phase-1-repair-completed-only-two-weeks-after-fracture-discovered/ On May 11, 2021, a partial fracture of the steel tie-girder box section was discovered during a routine visual inspection of the Hernando DeSoto Bridge, which carries I-40 over the Mississippi River between West Memphis, Ark., and Memphis, Tenn. Upon discovery of…