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WASHINGTON, Oct. 17, 2006 – Several construction projects in Afghanistan have recently been completed, and many more are close to completion, military officials in the Afghan capital of Kabul reported. The Khayr Khot Medical Clinic in Paktika province had a grand opening ceremony Oct. 14. The clinic will provide health care to citizens of the province’s Sharana district. The clinic complex consists of a building with five rooms, a bathroom and a guard post with perimeter wall. riginally built by the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan in 1999, the facility needed significant repairs, coalition officials said. The refurbishment cost $120,000 and...

Facing a looming deadline, lawmakers on Tuesday were reviewing late changes to legislation that would make California the first state to impose a cap on greenhouse gas emissions from industries. Democrats and top aides to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger have spent the last few months negotiating a bill that would put the state on the path to reducing its emissions by an estimated 25 percent by 2020, to the levels of 1990. The sides have been at odds over how to achieve the goal, but a compromise deal appeared to be in the works, according to aides with both camps. Assembly...

  Al Rasheed Renovation Nears Completion $5.8 million renovation to Baghdad's most-famous hotel should be completed before the end of the year. By Norris Jones Gulf Region Central District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers BAGHDAD, Aug. 14, 2006 -- He’s been responsible for a variety of reconstruction efforts in Iraq – building sewers and water lines, electrical distribution networks, and roads. But project engineer Ross Warner says his work on Baghdad’s most-famous hotel has been both his biggest challenge and most rewarding experience during his six-month tour. “I’m proud of the progress we were able to achieve on the...

U.S. Army Maj. John Weibe inspects a water plant near the small Iraqi village of Sahfrah. The plant is 95 percent completed. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Cassandra Groce Water Treatment Plants Near Completion The plants are part of a project entitled Rihad Village Water Projects that is responsible for the construction of the new purification systems. By U.S. Army Spc. Cassandra Groce 133rd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment HAWIJA, Iraq, April 26, 2006 — The cliché, “Don’t drink the water” could easily apply to some of Iraq’s water supply. Clean water is a necessity with the lack of a...

A modular unit is lowered into place at the new Bagram Airfield hospital. Seventy-seven modular units were manufactured and assembled in Dubai and delivered here. The units will be used as an emergency unit, intensive care unit and operating room. Courtesy photo Bagram’s New Hospital Nears Completion The new hospital, nearly complete with the delivery of new modular units, will increase the level of care available to troops, Afghans and civilian contractors. By U.S. Army Army Sgt. Douglas DeMaio 20th Public Affairs Detachment BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Feb. 14, 2006 — The new Bagram Airfield hospital is nearly complete with...

Success in road construction here means not only making day to day life easier for the citizens; it facilitates the success of the first democratically elected Afghan government. KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Aug. 3, 2005 — One of the most encouraging successes of the United States military presence in Afghanistan is the approaching completion of the TK Road, a road bringing together the cities of Kandahar and Tarin Kowt. Coalition forces have been dedicated to connecting Afghanistan by road, a task that has spanned 14 months and 117 kilometers. "The best weapons of the Taliban are not (improvised explosive devices) and...

WASHINGTON – There's a hole the size of the federal deficit on the east side of the Capitol as work accelerates on a new visitor center, the largest, most expensive construction project in the 200-year history of the building. The project has expanded in scope nearly as fast as the 53,000 truckloads of dirt could be removed, driving its cost up from an estimated $265 million to $421 million. The three-story underground facility is now scheduled to open in the spring of 2006, delayed some four or five months from the original December 2005 goal because of bad weather, design...