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April Issue 2 2013

PND refutes port study, lawsuit

PND Engineers Inc. is taking issue with the results of a CH2M Hill study done for the Municipality of Anchorage that concluded PND’s Open Cell Sheet Pile bulkhead design is not suitable for the Port of Anchorage expansion project.

April Issue 2 2013

Amended permitting bill advances

A state senator on April 8 questioned the judgment of a Senate Finance Committee co-chair in advancing an amended version of a state permitting bill.

April Issue 1 2013

Multiple fisheries studies under way for Watana hydro

Fisheries studies are under way on the Susitna River north of Talkeetna as part of the regulatory process for the proposed Susitna-Watana Hydro project.

Study: port design, construction flawed March Issue 4 2013

Study: port design, construction flawed

The Municipality of Anchorage is slowly realizing the challenges it faces in fixing the broken down project to expand its port.

March Issue 4 2013

GUEST COMMENTARY: Educating more engineers is critical to future of Alaska

University of Alaska Fairbanks and UA Anchorage will both break ground on new engineering buildings on their campuses very soon thanks to the initial investment made by the legislature.

Hearing spurs inquiry at Inlet Tower for possible loan violations March Issue 3 2013

Hearing spurs inquiry at Inlet Tower for possible loan violations

JUNEAU — A legislative hearing on a bill allowing the Alaska Housing Finance Corp. to start lending to developers of multi-unit housing projects that include commercial businesses prompted an investigation of the Inlet Tower apartments in Anchorage for what appear to be very public and advertised violations of two provisions of its loan agreement.

March Issue 2 2013

Bids come in high for new Kodiak High School

All three bids received to build a new Kodiak High School have come in over what the Kodiak Island Borough School District had estimated.

Forecast: $8.4B in construction spending March Issue 2 2013

Forecast: $8.4B in construction spending

The upcoming construction season should be a busy one in Alaska.

March Issue 5 2013

MOA sues contractors over port construction

On the same day the Anchorage Assembly was presented with construction options for the Port of Anchorage expansion project, the Municipality of Anchorage filed a formal complaint in state court against three firms hired to work on the now suspended project.

Murkowski keeps up fight for reversal of King Cove action February Issue 3 2013

Murkowski keeps up fight for reversal of King Cove action

Sen. Lisa Murkowski is continuing to fight a Feb. 5 Department of the Interior finding that threatens to kill a proposed emergency access road between the villages of King Cove and Cold Bay on the Alaska Peninsula.

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