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AECOM R&D Credits Helped Zero Out 2018 Federal Taxes

AECOM’s success in reducing its 2018 corporate tax liability from potentially tens of millions of dollars down to zero may seem lik...

Amazon Unveils First Rendering for Arlington, Va., HQ2 Site

Amazon released plans for its second headquarters at National Landing in Arlington, Va.’s Crystal City.

Contract Signed for Renewables Center at Former Mass. Coal Plant

Energy developer Anbaric in May signed a $650-million agreement with an affiliate of Commercial Development Co. to develop a renewable-en...

Honolulu Light Rail Faces Bill for Cleanup of Bird Droppings

Beset with delays, rising costs and regulatory scrutiny, Honolulu’s light rail project faces another challenge—bird excrement.

New Contracting Documents for Tunneling Released

The International Federation of Consulting Engineers and the International Tunneling and Underground Space Association (ITA-AITES) launch...

At World Built Environment Forum, Promises and Perils of Transportation Technology

Transportation infrastructure will need technology to help meet the needs of a growing urban population, and political will to fuel major...

Longtime Bridge Competitors Acrow and Mabey Form Union

After decades of competition, two major players in the modular pre-engineered bridge business have joined forces.

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Power & Industrial

Trump Ends Infrastructure Talks Before They Begin. Now What?

Tom Ichniowski

Industry officials still see path forward, with highway-transit bill a key. …

Companies

ENR 2019 Top 400 Contractors: The Market Keeps Growing

Gary J. Tulacz

The market has hit its tenth year of growth, one of the longer expansions in history. But firms don’t see any signs of a cooling off. …

Government

Amid Funding and Design Battles, Border Wall Contracts are Challenged

Mary B. Powers

Debra K. Rubin

Tom Ichniowski

As Congressional Democrats push new blocks to use of military project funds for barriers and President Donald Trump seeks expensive changes, awarded contracts face bid protests. …

California Construction News

Salesforce Transit Center Reopening Still Not Set

Nadine M. Post

The independent panel reviewing the investigation of San Francisco’s troubled Salesforce Transit Center is tasked with both determining the cause of brittle fractures in two bottom flanges of twin built-up …

Sustainability

$1.7 Billion Houston Drinking Water Goes Big to Address Subsidence, Growth

Pam Radtke Russell

To counter subsidence and population growth, Houston is building one of the world’s largest drinking water plants and laying miles of pipe …

Materials

In New Pact, US, Canada, Mexico Cancel Tariffs on Steel, Aluminum

Tom Ichniowski

Agreement lifts tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminum in place for almost a year. …

Transportation

Spreading Cracks On FIU Bridge Failed to Alarm Project Team

Scott Judy

Richard Korman

At a meeting held the morning of the collapse to discuss cracking, the engineer of record assured the project team the bridge was safe. …

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Raises Are Up and So Is Time Flexibility, HR Survey Reports

Debra K. Rubin

More AEC employers are addressing gender parity in compensation, more than 200 companies report.

Workforce

You Can't Train Away Unconscious Bias

Jeffery Tobias Halter

Bias is unconscious and very deeply rooted; a few hours of one-off instruction will not drive change in an organization.

Blogs

Robins & Morton Named 2019 Southeast Contractor of the Year

By Scott Judy

The Alabama-based health-care specialist has kept more than busy with the Southeast's booming construction market.

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By Brian Brenner

Blach Completes Monterey Bay Aquarium’s $42-million Bechtel Family Center

By Greg Aragon

Water & Dams

Work Progressing on $480M Houston Flood Control Project

Work is wrapping up on the widening of 21 miles of Brays Bayou in Houston, one of 75 individual project components of a $480-million cooperative project between the Harris County Flood Control District and the Corps of Engineers to reduce flooding in the watershed.

Workforce

Colin Powell, Youth Advocate, Praises ACE Program Promise

Janice L. Tuchman

The surprise guest speaker at the ACE Mentor Program’s 25th Anniversary Celebration May 14 was retired Gen. Colin L. Powell.

Obituaries

Louvre Glass Pyramid Architect I.M. Pei Dies at Age 102

Carter Wiseman

Nadine M. Post

Though born in China, I.M. Pei, who died on May 16 in New York City at age 102, became one of the most dominant American architects of his time.

Products

Fully Autonomous Excavators and Dozers Deploy to Site

Jeff Rubenstone

There’s been a lot of talk about getting autonomous construction equipment into the field, but few have been willing to use operatorless heavy iron on real sites.

ENR

May 27, 2019

The market for contractors is surging, and most large firms see steady growth continuing at least through 2020.

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