Industry publication, December 2001

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

CONSTRUCTION WEEK

SPORTS CONSTRUCTION managing the site's existing hazardous POWER SUPPLY SAN DIEGO JOB TO RESTART AFTER 14 MONTH DELAY Work could resume this month on the port the vitrification plant. The con- tracts, which have a five-year scope, will SS“JfJ assaF* I" Elo EAEMrilUN Denial of an appeal by New York state’s San Diego Padres’ $411-million baseball require Fluor and WGI to compete for highest court will require completion of stadium after a 14-month hiatus caused specific projects. WGI is already part of a an environmental impact statement for by legal and financial woes. The city team led by Bechtel Group Inc. that will six small powerplants in and near New council’s Nov. 21 approval of a $16fr build the vitrification plant Fluor Fed- York City by Jan. 31 as a condition of I million bond sale is considered a crucial eral Services is performing E&C services their continued operation. The plants, i step toward continuing the project. A elsewhere at Hanford. totaling 440 Mw, were completed last federal investigation of former council summer in a $500-million crash con- member Valerie Stallings’ ties to team RENEWABLE ENERGY_______ struction program by the New York Pow- owner John Moores prevented the NflRTIIWFQT IITIIITY PI AMS TH Authority to meet an anticipated 400- bond sale, prompting the Padres to halt ncUCI AD TIP Al DflWHp"''” * electric-generation shortfall (ENR 'I' construction after four months (ENR DEVELOr IIUAL rUWEK 6/11 p. 14). Controversy arose when 10/9/00 p. 16). After Stallings resigned. The Clallam County Public Utility Dis- NYPA constructed the plants, which con- the council again approved the stadi- trict of Port Angeles, Wash., says it will tain 10 gas turbines rated at 44 Mw each, urn’s contracts and financial package, a develop by 2002 an offshore demon- without submitting to a full-dress envi- move upheld last May by the state Supe- stration tidal generation project that ronmental review known as Article X. rior Court Most subcontractors are still will generate 1 Mw of power. The Clal- The agency claimed an exemption bo­ on board, although finding enough lam PUD says it and consortium mem- cause it intended to operate even the skilled trades people will be a challenge bers—the Makah Nation, Aqua Energy dual-unit plants below the 80-Mw thresh- in San Diego’s busy building market, says Group Ltd. and the Northwest Energy old that would require an Article Xappli- Alan Petrasek, project director for The Innovation Center—will spend between cation. The Court of Appeals let stand a Clark Construction Group Inc., the sta­ $1.5 million and $2 million for the proj- lower appeals court’s decision ordering dium’s Bethesda, Md.-based contractor. ect, which is to go on line in Dec. 2002. the EIS and requiring NYPA to consider Officials have said that the delays are The Makahs will own and operate the the health effects of emissions that con­ costing about $ 1 million per month. The plant, which consists of floating buoys in tain fine particulate matter of 2.5 mi­ stadium’s opening date has been pushed 150 to 200 ft of water. The buoys’ move- crons. Allee, King, Rosen & Fleming, back from next July to April 2004. ment will drive turbines connected to a New York City, which is conducting the conventional 1-Mw generator. EIS, says it will be completed by Jan. 31. TRANSIT____________

ISRAEL SEEKS BIDS FOR NEW $1.1-BILLI0N BOT RAIL SYSTEM High-Hying Israel’s state-owned urban transport Tower Crane company is seeking international bids UFTS CRANE for the first stage of a $l.l-billion build- TO ROOFTOP PERCH operate-transfer light-rail system in met­ Construction of a new ropolitan Tel Aviv. It will be one of the “escape stairway” on the largest single infrastructure projects outer facade of a 42- ever undert^en in the country. The 22- I story landmark building kilometer line, both above and below In Frankfurt, Germany, ground, will carry as many as 400,000 prevented a tower crane passengers daily. Construction is sched­ being used In the build­ uled to begin in 2004 with a completion ing’s renovation from date in 2009. The winner will be given a being anchored to the 32-year concession to operate the system. structure as usual. So RADIOACTIVE WASTE_______ contractor Hochtief AG used a helicopter to lift FLUOR, WGI LAND CONTRACTS the 71 EC Liebherr tower crane to the roof were It FOR WORK AT HANFORD was erected on a cruci­ Teams led by Fluor Corp, and Washing­ form foundation measur­ ton Group International have won sepa­ ing 3.8 X 3.8 m. The rate contracts totaling $107 million to provide construction services related to crane’s erection took Just three hours but required I s

sI building a planned $4-billion nuclear 19 helicopter flights mak­ waste vitrification plant at the U.S. Ener­ ing lifts ranging between gy Dept’s Hanford site in Washington 1,500 and 4,100 kilograms. state. The contracts were awarded by CH2M Hill Hanford Group Inc., which is

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