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EPA Indiana Loan a New Wrinkle for WIFIA

As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency continues to sign off on new Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act loans, one of it...

Chesapeake Bay Bridge Rehab Spawns Big Backups

Maryland is taking emergency measures to alleviate extensive congestion resulting from deck replacement work on the William Preston Lane ...

NJ Transit Positive Train Control Tests Delayed

Software issues are being blamed for the latest delay in implementing NJ Transit’s $302-million positive train control (PTC) system.

Two Mississippi River Diversions Will Generate Millions In Revenue

The construction of two Mississippi River diversions in Louisiana will create 447 construction jobs and provide $28.7 million in construc...

Mayors Endorse Global Green Deal

Mayors of 94 cities across the globe—members of C40 Cities—announced their support for a Global Green New Deal to “driv...

Three Mile Island Meltdown Unit Sold To Speed Site Cleanup

EnergySolutions will gain long shutdown nuke reactor's license and $871-million cleanup trust fund in goal to accelerate site decommision...

Three Teams Vie to Build 2 GW of Connecticut Offshore Wind

Price and other key project details are unavailable on heavily redacted public versions of submitted proposals.

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Risk

Do Tests For Combustible Exterior Building Walls Match Real-Life Fire Intensity?

Scott Van Voorhis

Richard Korman

For more than two decades, science has recognized that building fires have become hotter, faster-spreading and more toxic. …

Power & Industrial

Canada's Trudeau Wins Tougher Race, With Infrastructure Push Now More Complex

Debra K. Rubin

Jim Parsons

In a close election, Canada’s incumbent Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party managed to hang on to power despite political scandals and controversy over the government’s $4.5- billion …

Safety Health

California Utilities Ramp Up Line Work in Face of Fire Threats

Erica Berardi

As wildfire warnings continue to race through California, utility giants PG&E and Southern California Edison (SCE) are stepping up their fire-risk mitigation plans for workers to harden infrastructure and manage …

Southeast Construction News

NTSB: Errors by FIGG Led to Fatal Bridge Collapse

Scott Judy

Tom Ichniowski

In findings announced Oct. 22, the National Transportation Safety Board concludes that multiple parties deserved some responsibility for Miami bridge tragedy. …

Equipment

Two Tower Cranes Brought Down in Controlled Demolition at Site of New Orleans Hotel Collapse

Jeff Rubenstone

Two unstable tower cranes at the site of the New Orleans Hard Rock Hotel collapse were brought down on Oct. 20 in a controlled demolition, but work to stabilize the …

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Companies

ENR 2019 Top 600 Specialty Contractors: How Long Will the Boom Last?

Gary J. Tulacz

The market continues to grow, but many specialty trade contractors are beginning to look ahead to prepare for an inevitable slowdown. …

Southeast Construction News

Did Concrete Error Doom Florida Bridge?

Richard Korman

Scott Judy

FIGG Bridge Engineers and its consultant advance a theory that errors made by others caused the fatal collapse …

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Tech

With Lithium-Ion Batteries, Fire Hazard Remains Unsolved

Thomas F. Armistead

Six months after an explosion and fire destroyed a grid-connected energy-storage battery facility in Surprise, Ariz., investigators are still trying to figure out all that happened.

Water & Dams

JV Contractor Sinks Caisson for World's Largest Sea Lock in the Netherlands

The contractor OpenIJ has finally sunk a 150,000-tonne concrete caisson at the troubled project for the world’s largest sea lock in IJmuiden, Netherlands.

Blogs

Seattle Construction Focus Turns to Waterfront

By Tim Newcomb

With multiple mega-projects virtually all wrapped up in Seattle, a $724 million project to rebuild the city's central waterfront starts to take a more prominent role in the future of Seattle construction and transportation.

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By Eydie Cubarrubia

Vancouver’s George Massey Tunnel Replacement May Now be a Tunnel Instead of a Bridge

By Tim Newcomb

Transportation

Transit Agencies Grapple With Workforce, P3 Challenges

Aileen Cho

Anticipating disruptive mobility technologies, attracting new talent and figuring out how to do public-private partnerships successfully pose key challenges for public transportation agencies.

Information technology

Unapproved 'Internet of Things' Devices Cause Headaches on Sites

Jeff Yoders

Tim Nottoli, Walsh Construction’s chief information officer, has seen Google’s Nest and Amazon’s Ring cameras brought onto the company’s construction sites and has dealt with every type of sensor used properly and improperly on the company’s network.

Safety Health

UL is Closer to a Standard for 3D-Printed Building Materials; Fire Protection Engineers Investigate Wildfire Spread

Jeff Yoders

Predicting wildfires and combating them, smart building sensors, 3D-printed building materials, building integrated fire safety systems that go beyond sprinklers and clean-room protection were among the topics discussed Oct. 13-15 at the Society of Fire Protection Engineers’ annual conference and exposition at the Sheraton Grand Resort at Wild Horse Pass near Phoenix.

Products

Product Snapshot: Headlamp and MEWP

Milwaukee Tool has expanded its line of headlamps with four new models.

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Oct 28, 2019

The conversation about building fire safety changed after London’s Grenfell Tower disaster, with questions about the differences among the fire tests used for building exterior wall assemblies with combustible components.

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