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California Voters Oust Infrastructure Backer Over Gas Taxes

Primary results set the stage for November showdown on repeal of funding legislation

Plant Vogtle Needs Hundreds More Craft Workers to Meet Schedule

State construction monitors are skeptical that builders of the Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion can overcome a daunting labor shortage and ...

Sewer Worker Dead in Baltimore Trench Collapse

A 15-ft-deep excavated sewer trench in Baltimore that collapsed June 5, killing a 20-year-old construction worker, was not fitted with re...

Black & Veatch, SAI Group Hired To Build 2,000 EV Stations

Black & Veatch and SAI Group will build a coast-to-coast network of more than 2,000 fast-charging electric vehicle stations for Elect...

Transportation Lobbyist Is Set to Run ACEC

D.C. veteran is picked to succeed David Raymond in August as CEO of key design firm group.

Las Vegas Paving Innovator Bob Mendenhall is Dead at 90

Entrepreneur-inventor's ingenuity led to America’s first 100% asphalt recycled freeway in 1975, using Mendenhall-designed equipment.

WRDA Bill With $2.5B for Corps Projects Steams Through House

After House's 408-2 vote, focus shifts to Senate, where broader bill cleared committee.

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Study Finds the FAA's Risk Aversion Retards Drone Innovation

Tom Sawyer

The Federal Aviation Administration has taken an overly conservative approach to safety risk assessments in the commercial use of drones, concludes a congressionally mandated study released by the National Academies …

Project delivery

Turner & Townsend Takes the Long-Term View

Tom Stabile

UK-based firm grows its global niche as key CM-PM strategist to help clients weather market uncertainties. …

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Companies

ENR 2018 Top 100 Professional Service Firms

Gary J. Tulacz

Owners are asking professional service firms not only to deliver projects, but also to help plan them, assess risk and find funding …

Power & Industrial

Coalition of Experts Oppose Trump Order to Prop Up Coal, Nukes

Pam Radtke Russell

Strengthening the transmission and distribution grid, increasing distributed generation and even trimming vegetation would likely do more to improve grid resilience than a proposed draft order from the Trump administration …

Power & Industrial

Mass. Researchers Build First Tidal Power Test Site

Johanna Knapschaefer

Three tidal turbine energy developers, including one U.K. company, are planning to test their prototypes at the world’s first-of-its-kind permanent tidal test site on the Cape Cod Canal in Massachusetts. …

Tech

Tech Investment in Construction Doubles in Past Decade

Jeff Rubenstone

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Janice L. Tuchman

As products and the number of firms involved multiply, the focus shifts to exploring what tech can do for construction …

Companies

U.S. Offshore Wind Power is Blowing on West Coast

Mary B. Powers

Floating platforms show promise in deeper coastal waters off California …

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Construction Insurance: Ten Minutes With Willis Towers Watson’s Kelly Kinzer

Scott Van Voorhis

A question-and-answer session on coverage and exclusions for faulty work, damage, water-related claims and even contract liability penalties.

Projects

Can Construction 'Par' Standards Raise Productivity?

Sarah Hodges

Technology is transforming entire industries to be more efficient, yet productivity lags in construction—confoundingly so. The reality is that the problem is systemic. What if there was a par system for construction?

Blogs

Preview: ENR Texas & Louisiana's Annual Top Contractors Ranking

By Louise Poirier

ENR Texas & Louisiana's August 6 print issue will feature our annual Top Design Firms ranking. We'll be ranking the region's top architectural and engineering firms by revenue and by sector.

In the Shadow of the Braga Bridge

Architects, Engineers Collaborate on New Everett Pedestrian Bridge

By Tim Newcomb

Product Snapshot

Product Snapshot: Cable Tester and Demolition Robots

The T130 VDV MapMaster 3.0 is designed for verifying cable installations in telecom applications.

Project delivery

Judge's Injunction Prevents DOE From Halting MOX Project

Scott Judy

A federal judge on June 7 granted a preliminary injunction preventing the Dept. of Energy from enacting a stop work order that would have cancelled construction of the over-budget, behind-schedule MOX project at Savannah River Site.

Buildings

Ford to Purchase Old Detroit Train Station

Detroit’s 500,000-sq-ft, 18-story Michigan Central Station was recently sold by its longtime owners, the Moroun Family, to Ford Motor Co.

Information technology

Thermal Imaging Feature Streams on the Fly

Tom Sawyer

A software and drone-data platform developer has released what it claims is the first mobile mapping feature to deliver thermal maps of target areas as the data is being collected, for real-time evaluation in the field.

ENR

June 18, 2018

Professional services firms are no longer just providing construction and program management services. Increasingly, they are being called upon by clients for project planning, risk management and advice on project financing.

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