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Oregon Code Officials First to Approve Hybrid Mass Timber Buildings

Oregon has become the first state in the U.S. to provide a prescriptive path for the construction of hybrid tall-timber buildings.

Image, Video Data From Earthcam and TrueLook Integrated Into Autodesk BIM 360 Platform

Users of Autodesk's BIM 360 construction management platform now have access construction video and photography captured in Eart...

Vancouver-Area Officials OK $5.4 Billion to Expand Regional Transit

But developers chafe at new fees to support an added $2.1 billion in infrastructure investments.

Feds Move To Expand State Role in Wetland Permitting

Corps of Engineers and EPA finally begin to clarify which waters are both open and off limits to expedited state regulation.

Virtual Fall Protection App Debuts

Users can assemble a safety system that either saves or dooms a worker

China Works To Limit Disastrous Rail Construction Accidents

Placing blame for an industry with a worse-than-spotty recent safety history.

Construction Vet Peter Lehrer Joins Calif.-based CM Cumming

Exec change follows new ownership link with his New York firm; buyups alter other industry C-suites

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Dozens Die as Cable-Stayed Bridge Collapses in Italy

Peter Reina

More than 200 firefighters and specialist rescue teams struggled through huge amounts of debris left by a collapsed 90-m-tall A-frame pylon and around 100 m of decks on either side. …

Risk

Investigators: Big Cracks, but No Cause Yet for Florida Bridge Collapse

Scott Judy

The Florida International University photos show cracking in a second vertical member. …

Water & Dams

Mississippi River Diversions Could Save Louisiana's Drowning Coast

Pam Radtke Russell

Louisiana attracts worldwide attention as it strives to stem disastrous land loss by diverting a portion of the Mississippi River to rebuild wetlands. …

Environment

Top 200 Environmental Firms Reach Out to Tap Markets

Debra K. Rubin Mary B. Powers

Stronger global economies push environmental work despite uncertain federal regulations and delayed infrastructure investment. …

Risk

Alabama Nuke Developer, a Trump Donor, Seeks Billions in DOE Project Funds

Mary B. Powers

SNC Lavalin is hired to complete motballed Bellefonte site, but little is known on power delivery strategy. …

Water & Dams

Investigators Begin Work on Deadly Laos Dam Collapse

Saibal Dasgupta

The death toll is more than 30, and thousands are displaced. …

Information technology

In a First, the Project Deliverables Include a Blockchain Twin

Tom Sawyer

A Midwest contractor turns to a new technology to automatically gather and share asset data in an unchangeable database for handover …

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Army Researchers Refine 3D-Printed Concrete Barracks

Nadine M. Post

U.S. Army Corp. of Engineers' researchers, leading a building team that recently completed the 3D printing of 9.5-ft-tall reinforced concrete walls for a 32-ft x 16-ft deployable barracks, are setting their sights on their next project--3D printing of concrete roof beams--even before they have put the precast concrete lid on the printed walls.

Risk

Engineers: Give Us the Risk Realities for Autonomous Vehicles

Richard Korman

As Google, Uber, Amazon and Tesla work to transform transportation, there’s an important task that should be taken up by civil engineers: better informing the public about the risks.

Blogs

ENR Southwest Best Project Winners 2018

By John Guzzon

ENR Southwest is pleased to announce that the judges have completed their work. Find out which projects have been selected as winners of the 2018 Best Projects competition.

Huntington Library Breaks Ground on $23-Million Final Phase of Chinese Gardens

By Greg Aragon

Washington’s First Diverging Diamond Interchange Coming

By Tim Newcomb

Environment

Southland Digs Market Prospects

Mary B. Powers

Contractor, new to the Top 200 Environmental Firms list, sees reward in water-wastewater sector expansion.

Companies

EHS Support Tries Disruption

Top 200 Environmental Firms newcomer sees its virtual approach as a competitive edge.

Buildings

Tricky Excavation Completed for Rainier Square Tower

Late in July, crews completed the up-to-85-ft-deep excavation for the 850-ft-tall Rainier Square Tower after workers installed a secant pile foundation wall, supported laterally under the neighboring 514-ft-tall high-rise by eight rows of 262 drilled tieback anchors.

Power & Industrial

New Lines to Ease Permian Shale Bottleneck Faces Tariffs

Ethan Howland

With surging crude oil production in the Permian Basin reaching the limits of the pipeline system, pipeline companies are working to build new capacity to avoid bottlenecks that could restrict exports out of the area.

ENR

Aug 13, 2018

Engineers and scientists, with just one chance to save some of the world’s most productive wetlands, are counting on a plan to reconnect the Mississippi River to its basin.

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