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Light at the End of the Tunnel

Civil + Structural Engineer

By PCiRoads How PCiRoads found custom equipment for a unique project Minneapolis features a busy and lively downtown area thats home to nearly 57,000 residents along with 216,000 employees each week, per mplsdowntown.com. In fact, the storm drain system is about 100 years old. This has caused deterioration, including cracks and breaks.

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MBCEA Announces 2024 Building of the Year Winners

Civil + Structural Engineer

It’s amazing to see how this contest has grown, and this year we saw 31 companies enter a total of 40 projects for consideration.” It includes a total of seven buildings erected together to create an all-in-one complex with a standing seam metal roof and insulated metal wall panels. was the metal building systems provider.

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National Precast: 50 years of building Australia’s future

Roads Online

Our team takes immense pride in having been a part of Australia’s infrastructure evolution over the past 50 years,” says Reinforced Earth Managing Director, Riccardo Musella. This technique has been widely used in the construction of retaining walls, bridge abutments and embankments.

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New BJC Health Tower Breaks Ground in St. Louis

Civil + Structural Engineer

Louis area, Barnes-Jewish Health Systems (BJC) undertook a long-term, campus wide renewal project. A key architectural element of the building was on the west projection, which featured a cantilever piece that stemmed out 25 feet beginning on the fifth floor.

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Industrial Constructors/Managers, Inc. facilitates improvements to aerospace test facility thanks to ‘on the go’ construction and welding

Civil + Structural Engineer

But that’s exactly what Colorado-based contractor, Industrial Constructors/Managers, Inc. While this was great news, it also proved that Reaction’s test facility needed the addition of a new liquid coolant system to handle the huge thermal load. The project required a lot of flexibility, collaboration and teamwork on the fly.

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Enhancing the I-5

Civil + Structural Engineer

By Luke Carothers The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (Metro) I-5 North County Enhancement Project (I-5 NCEP) is an ambitious undertaking that will ease congestion, improve safety, and accommodate booming growth along the 14-mile corridor between State Route 14 in Santa Clara and Parker Road in Castaic.

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Western Specialty Contractors Restoring Minneapolis’ Historic Wesley Church

Civil + Structural Engineer

3, 2023) Western Specialty Contractors – Minneapolis Branch is nearing completion of a project to restore a masonry wall section of the historic Wesley Church located at 101 E. Western is expecting to complete the project in September 2023 within budget. Dennis Batty & Associates Group is the architect on the project.