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NJSpotlight
Lawmakers are hoping to speed up the time it takes to complete transportation-related capital projects in New Jersey, two years after they increased the amount of money that's spent each year on the state-funded infrastructure work.
A key Senate committee yesterday approved a bipartisan bill that would rewrite some state policies to make the Transportation Trust Fund operate more efficiently, including by allowing the Department of Transportation to work more closely with county governments and outside consultants to ensure projects aren't sidelined due to a lack of available engineers.
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NJSME
The New Jersey Municipal Engineering Institute (NJMEI) was created by the New Jersey Society of Municipal Engineers (NJSME) in 1987 to establish and administer programs dedicated to the continuing education needs of professional engineers practicing municipal engineering.
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Reuters
New Jersey Transit's board will decide whether to award the first part of an order for up to 999 cars worth as much as $3.6 billion to Canada-based Bombardier Inc, a copy of the agency's Dec. 12 agenda shows.
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Construction Dive
During a press conference after meeting with President Donald Trump and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo gave an update on discussions around the $13 billion Gateway Program tunnel replacement project between New Jersey and New York City.
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Press of Atlantic City
As Adam Neuman's wife left her home for work Monday morning, she texted him a photo: A truck filled with sections of 30-inch pipes driving down the street.
The couple lives on Fischer Road in Plumsted Township, Ocean County, where construction on the Southern Reliability Link pipeline is now beginning, despite it being tied up in the state’s appellate court.
At issue is whether a portion of the controversial project can be built in the Pinelands, New Jersey's largest nature reserve.
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North Jersey Record
New Jersey's top officials have proposed an interim solution for a problematic bridge that often delays Amtrak and NJ Transit trains: Stop opening it during rush hour.
Sens. Cory Booker and Bob Menendez and Gov. Phil Murphy have asked the U.S. Coast Guard to close a loophole that allows marine vessels to request passage at Portal Bridge in the Meadowlands during morning and evening rush periods.
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Engineering News-Record
Worker safety concerns sparked a new plan on how to demolish the remnants of the old Tappan Zee Bridge in New York.
Contractors earlier in the fall submitted a plan to use explosives to take down a section of the old span, Federal Highway Administration Spokesman Doug Hecox told Engineering News-Record. That's in contrast to the procedure that had been in place — dismantling and removing the bridge piece by piece.
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Bloomberg
If Congress approves a national public-works program next year that Democratic and Republican leaders are proposing, President Donald Trump's trade war could inflate the price tag, costing taxpayers and construction companies many millions of dollars.
A three-quarter-mile stretch of Detroit's Lower Rouge River illustrates the problem. Known as the Old Channel, it was contaminated from decades of industrial-waste discharges. To clean the waterway, workers are installing a 2,500-foot-long, sheet-pile bulkhead wall to support the riverbanks. Once that’s built, polluted river sediment and debris will be removed starting early next year.
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Safety + Health Magazine
The construction industry experienced a “substantial share” of contractor deaths involving electrical incidents during a recent five-year period, according to a report from the National Fire Protection Association.
NFPA senior research analyst Richard Campbell examined Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries data for contract worker deaths from 2012 to 2016.
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For Construction Pros
Technology continues to gain momentum in the construction industry. Over the last 18 months, a “perfect storm” of internal and external factors — driven by a boom in construction activity, population demands and a lack of skilled labor — has spurred contractors to begin adopting construction technologies.
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Construction Dive
Just a few years ago, enterprise adoption of drones was out of reach for even the largest contractors, due to tight Federal Aviation Administration regulations and limited options in the drone hardware and software marketplace.
But with the development of the Small Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Part 107 regulations in 2016 — eliminating the requirement that commercial drone operators have a pilot's license, among other provisions — and an influx of tech solutions for planning and managing drone operations, drone adoption is becoming more feasible for construction companies.
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