Dive Brief:

• A project to revamp and enlarge the Port of Anchorage, Alaska, is set to get a new manager as city executives send a recommendation to the City Council to hire CH2M Hill for five years at up to $30 million annually.
• The project has been suspended and likely will not resume before 2016. Several lawsuits are pending and the whole thing could wind up costing more than five times the original estimate of $211 million from 2003.
• CH2M Hill was chosen from among seven bidders, and it was the company that showed the city that a design using a patented open-cell, sheet-steel product was seriously flawed.

Dive Insight:

Mayor Dan Sullivan says that redesigning the project to come up with one CH2M Hill can manage to a successful conclusion will be a budget-driven process. In deciding how to proceed, "part of the consideration will be what we can afford," the mayor said. Federal funds poured into the harbor project are already more than the entire original estimate.