Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. After days of negotiations for a Prisoner Exchange apparently broke down, isis today reportedly executed a japanese journalist it had been holding hostage in syria. Just last weekend, isis also beheaded another japanese citizen it had captured. There was no immediate word about the fate of the jordanian pilot isis is also holding. The Islamic Extremist Group had been demanding that jordan set free a woman implicated in a 2005 bombing attack in amman that killed 60 people in exchange for the hostages. For more about this, we are joined from washington by dou
Continue to look for opportunities to participate in community events, and to highlight not just our construction progress, but the various unique design and engineering elements of the Transit Center. So with that, im going to turn it back over to mark. Thank you, scott. For 2015, we expect to award the remaining trade packages by the middle of this year, with the exception of the ip network. For the ip network we plan to complete the procurement planing in may and begin the site readiness phase at that time. We also will continue development of the final design. We expect to complete the final design in the spring of 2016 and award the ip network in august of 2016. We also begin the development of tenant improvement construction documents for greyhound and am track facilitis in the new Transit Center. For the bus storage we expect to complete the final design in the fall and be ready to award the contracted at the end of the this year. The award of the bus storage is capital independ
Likes on facebook. We doubled our number of instagram followers and increased our number of twitter followers by about 25 . Here you see some examples of our social media postings and outreach and the role that the Transit Center plays in the role of the bay area sustainability and so forth. Media coverage is another important aspect of our Community Outreach and for that reason we regularly do site tours with members of the media. We were able to secure good coverage of our structure steel event in november and ongoing coverage of the successful formation of the melaruse district and able to get coverage of the role it will play in the highspeed rail on all of the local networks, abc, nbc, cbs and fox. Were very proud of that. Had some good features in print. Our [skao uft ] director named deal maker of the year, a significant honor and a great way to draw positive attention to the project by the San Francisco examiner. And an additional feature on abc 7 news, as well as a feature in
Is being poured. Well come out of ground for the bus ramp, the cablestay bridge pylon. I want to leave with where well be at 2016 at this time. Most of the steel will be installed by the end of this year, with only leaving the eastern side, that would be beale street at the far eastern end still to remain. Of all of that steel, there will be a lot of concrete poured on it and mep, all as we get what it looks like from a year from now. Thank you for listening to all of us and if there are any questions, were happy to entertain those. Thank you. Thank you, that was a very comprehensive new year report and thank you to all of the Staff Members for putting that together. Any questions . Director reiskin . Just one. First of all, i agree, that was great, really a phenomenal walk through 2014 and look to 2015. That was a lot that was accomplished in 2014. That was a great yeah, particularly seeing the steel start to come out of the ground. One question, one thing that mark said, the bus stor
Work activities. Just moving right along very well. Shimmick is doing a great job with the schedule on that. Current work in the western zone, the focus on the upper left was getting the lower concourse cleaned out after the train box level all cleaned after placing the lower concourse work. On the righthand side you may wonder what were using styrofoam for . That is the beginning of the form work and that is much further along here in june. That is also within the shimmick 6. 0 contract to complete the ramp up to the surface and the first portion of it, the form work is done with the styrofoam. Moving along in the central its all about steel and steel erection taking apart disassembling the trussful. The steel erection. With the arrow, to point to the progress from the day of the ceremony to the beginning of november to now its three complete bays. Steel above has been filled in and they have the deck on the park level. So three complete bays of steel now. In the eastern zone, its lev