central artery big dig
Bechtel/PB JV finished at Big Dig - bad news, good news
Posted Sun, 2007-12-30 15:33
Dec 31 2007 marks the end of the terminally inept Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff project management joint venture at the Massachusetts Turnpike's Big Dig project. How such stellar companies could mismanage construction so totally is difficult to explain except in terms of the Turnpike's perverse structuring of the incentives - the send-us-the-bills-whatever deal which meant that the more B/PB screwed up the more they earned. 1526 words read more » Concrete company settles Big Dig charges with guilty plea and $125m
Posted Fri, 2007-07-27 18:04
A company supplying 'off' concrete to the Massachusetts Turnpike's Big Dig is settling with the state of Massachusetts and the US for up to $125m but six fired staff are being prosecuted individually for criminal conspiracy and fraud. 1011 words read more »
Gannett Fleming and Bechtel/Parsons B engineers blamed by safety board for killer ceiling collapse in Big Dig
Posted Tue, 2007-07-10 13:29
The National Transportation Safety Board (NSTB) highlights poor anchor specification by design engineers of Gannett Fleming and project managers Bechtel Parsons Brinckerhoff joint venture (Bechtel/PB) as the cause of the ceiling collapse that killed a car passenger July 10, 2006 and resulted in some tens of millions of dollars of costs in traffic disruption, lost tolls and rebuilding of the suspended ceilings. 809 words read more »
Mass Turnpike Big Dig leakage rate increasing despite attempt to fix - Boston Globe
Posted Sun, 2007-07-01 11:35The main I-93 "Thomas O'Neill" Tunnel of the Big Dig in Boston is leaking about fifty times the contracted limit for water seepage and the volumes are going up - the Boston Post reports today.
An average 50 gallons per hour (190L/hr) is the limit specified in contract documents for the allowed leakage in the 2400m (1.5mi) long tunnel constructed by cut and cover under the streets of central Boston.
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An average 50 gallons per hour (190L/hr) is the limit specified in contract documents for the allowed leakage in the 2400m (1.5mi) long tunnel constructed by cut and cover under the streets of central Boston.
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CORRECTION JOHN FITZGERALD not JFK
Posted Sun, 1997-03-16 07:00CORRECTION JOHN FITZGERALD not JFK
Originally published in issue 13 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Mar 1997.
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