The town of Oakville was founded in 1820 to build a marina community on Lake Ontario for shipbuilding and the shipping industry. Since then, the community has grown while honoring the early development days. Oakville's waterfront on Lake Ontario features beautiful scenery with two natural harbors, and a system of river trails that run through it. Featuring wooded areas, meadows, museums and formal gardens, there is plenty to see and do along the waterfront. During the summer months ma ... Read more
Pile Driving & Storm Defying
Editor: Debbie Reaney
Spanning over the Raritan River in Newark NJ is the sole bridge that has carried trains of the New Jersey Coast Line from South Amboy to Perth Amboy for the past 115 years and encompasses greater Newark, Hoboken, Jersey City and New York City. During the destructive Hurricane Sandy in 2012, the low-profile structure became submerged and took a hit from a runaway tugboat and was shifted 18 inches on its piles, pr ... Read more
Reinforcing Lake Road
Lake Erie Slide Repair
Editor: Allison Braswell
Bordering Lake Erie is State Route 531 (SR 531) in Ashtabula, OH--both a scenic circuit with stunning views of this Great Lake and a regional transportation link that is vital to the region's community and robust tourism industry that brings in $295 million annually. The rivalry between this route and Lake Erie, however, has raised safety concerns. Over the past decade, the lake has slowly crept its way ... Read more
A Sea of Green at Bainbridge Island
Editor: Allison Braswell
Passengers at the Bainbridge Island Ferry Terminal in Washington State overlook the green iron gracing the area below them from the 30' (ft) tall overhead pedestrian walkway that has stood above the terminal for 50 years. As the busiest terminal in the Washington State Ferries (WSF) system, 3.2 million people use the walkway each year to access the ferry on Bainbridge Island. Its aging wood ... Read more
Historic Regional Link Re-imagined
Editor: Allison Braswell
A vision for the future of New Hampshire and Vermont's shared infrastructure has been under discussion for nearly three decades. Now, it is finally coming to life. Since June 2021, NHDOT has been leading long-awaited replacement and repurposing efforts for two deteriorating spans of the 200-year-old, 8-lane bridge that carries traffic between Hinsdale, NH and Brattleboro, VT over the Connecticut River. A new, wider single-span bri ... Read more
Editor: Ashley Steele
Ford Motor Company is placing innovation at the forefront of their newest expansion project. The new central campus of the company's Research and Development department will be constructed on the same location as the 66-year-old Product Development Center in Dearborn, MI. The state-of-the-art facility will include a walkable campus of interconnected buildings, that will house more than 20,000 employees.
Hardman Construction, out of Ludington, MI was c ... Read more
Editor: Ashley Steele
One hundred and fifty thousand motorists in Fredericksburg, Virginia will soon have an extra lane of traffic to reduce congestion on their daily commute. The $107.5 million dollar I-95 Northbound Rappahannock River Crossing Project will provide this extra lane, as well as a new bridge span over the river, and sidewalks under the overpasses that will allow pedestrians to safely transit from home to work and play.
The huge undert ... Read more
Quick modifications help to keep things moving.
Editor: Ashley Steele
Downtown Minneapolis is getting a new transit hub. The state-of-the-art Minneapolis Bus Garage Project is a $116.9 million dollar project to create a multi-faceted use location for the city buses. The new structure will have over 400,000 sq ft of bus storage and maintenance facilities across two levels. This will include 24 different maintenance bays with storage for up to 216 buses and li ... Read more
Reducing nitrogen to rehabilitate the Western Bays
On the world's 51st celebration of Earth Day, New Yorkers came together to break ground on the $513 million Bay Park Conveyance Project in Long Island, NY. Western Bay Resiliency Initiative was organized to repair 7.3 miles of the aqueduct and construct a 3.6-mile force main pipe located 20-60 feet below the ground. The connection line will ... Read more
SouthCoast Rail Project- Boston
Editor: Ashley Steele
The SouthCoast Rail project is a multi-phase project which will bring new commuter rail service to the south Boston area towns. These towns have never had commuter access and with this addition it will ease traffic and commuting times. In total, six new commuter stations will be added along with over 36 miles of reconstructed rail lines.
Phase 1 of this project, which is now underway, has been ... Read more
