Propelled by powerful and complementary forces, the U.S. renewables market is in the early stages of a multiyear period of sustained development and construction activity that may come to be viewed as the golden age of wind and solar power.
Confronting a spaghetti bowl of roads in and out of SeaTac International Airport, south of Seattle, owner Sound Transit opted for its first-ever turnkey design-build contract to better integrate civil, structural, station and system components of a new light-rail system extension that will serve the airport.
A planned $2-billion flood-control project for the Fargo, N.D.-Moorhead, Minn., metro area allocates $5 million worth of construction funding from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in its 2016 work plan, said Terry Williams, corps project manager in St. Paul.
Only a handful of structures remain at the 3,100-acre Sparrows Point complex in Baltimore from its heyday as the world’s largest steel mill, but, at present, the site seems equally far removed from its new owners’ long-term vision of the site as a major multimodal logistics and distribution hub.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Dept. (LACSD) accused two phony engineers of using stolen software to forge the engineering seal and signature of a former employer.
Aiming for an economic boost as part of China’s anticipated Silk Road corridor to Europe, the republic of Georgia has picked a local-U.S. joint venture, backed by global investors, to develop a $2.5-billion deep-sea port at Anaklia on the Black Sea.
“Dramatic decrease” in skilled trades and professionals will pressure contractors and their projects over the next several years, says data presented at Construction Users Roundtable meeting in early February.
A new study by Dodge Data and Analytics, published this February in the “World Green Building Trends 2016 SmartMarket Report,” confirms that green design and construction is accelerating as an important global trend.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will abide by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to place a hold on implementing a rule to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants, the agency’s administrator says.
The budget proposal that President Obama sent to Congress on Feb. 9 confirmed the administration’s plans to terminate, nearly nine years after construction began, the multibillion-dollar Mixed-Oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication Facility project at the Savannah River site in South Carolina.
The Dodge Momentum Index rose 2.4% in January. The monthly increase was the result of a 3.3% increase in institutional projects and a 1.6% increase in commercial work.
Designed by Tishman Speyer and BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group), the 65-story tower at 66 Hudson Blvd. has been named The Spiral, due to the series of terraces placed to evoke a spiraling motion.
A combination of economics, technological advances and rapid change in the electricity business has halted a Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) project to construct a 400-MW pumped-storage hydroelectric project.
During a weekend shutdown of U.S. Route 101 in Los Angeles, crews began demolition of the 3,500-ft-long Sixth Street Viaduct to prep for the construction of a $449-million replacement.
Researchers from the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard University have developed a working prototype of a robot that realigns its body to maneuver through tiny cracks to gather data.
An Australian-based safety-audit app built its user base from the bottom up by offering its service for free and gaining grassroots adoption through the workers closest to the action.