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Senate Committee Approves 11% Hike for Corps Civil Works

Repbublicans defeat Democrats' attempts to block DOD projects' funding shift to border wall.

Lawmakers Grill Corporations about PFAS Contamination

At a Sept. 10 hearing, Democrats and some Republicans on the House Oversight Committee asked witnesses what lawmakers could do to begin t...

Senate OKs Bill to Help Newark, Other Cities Fund Drinking-Water Upgrades

Legislation would let states shift more dollars to drinking-water revolving funds from clean-water funds.

UK Contractor To Raze Liverpool's Churchill Way Viaduct

New post-tension special inspection regime revealed structural shortcomings.

D.C. Seeks Contractor To Demolish RFK Stadium

The District of Columbia is looking for a contractor to decommission and demolish RFK Stadium, a sports venue that has served the city fo...

New Offshore Wind R&D Group Awards First Study

Public-private consortium wants $300K project to weigh floating wind farm technology economics.

SC Utility Draws Interest in VC Summer Restart, Pols' Rebuke

Embattled utility Santee Cooper, one of the primary owners of the canceled V.C.

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Trump Administration Rolls Back 2015 Clean Water Rule

Pam Hunter McFarland

Pam Radtke Russell

Industry, business and agricultural groups cheered the announcement, but Earthjustice President Abigail Dillen called the repeal of the 2015 rule “shameful and dangerous. No one is above the law, including …

Sustainability

ENR 2019 Top 100 Green Building Contractors and Design Firms: Sustainability Intensifies

Gary J. Tulacz

Designers and contractors are moving beyond a checklist of do’s and don’ts and are exploring new means of building green. …

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Buildings

2019 Top 400 Sourcebook: Turner Begins Work on $250M Cincinnati Soccer Stadium

Bruce Buckley

Turner recently started construction of a $250-million, 510,000-sq-ft Major League Soccer stadium in Cincinnati, called West End Stadium. …

Risk

Category 5 Hurricane Dorian Raises Alarm on Resilience

As Bahamas death toll mounts, engineers and policymakers highlight growing risk from bigger storms …

California Construction News

Reviewers OK Fix for San Francisco's Leaning Millennium Tower

Nadine M. Post

An independent engineering review team has given its nod to the San Francisco Dept. of Building Inspection regarding permitting of the proposed $100-million structural shoring scheme for the 645-ft-tall Millennium …

Environment

Renewables Projects Push On in Canada, Despite Politics

Scott Van Voorhis

Alberta's 400-MW solar farm, just approved, will be competitive even with halt of 2015 clean-energy mandate, proponents say. …

Texas & Louisiana Construction News

WWII Museum Hotel Project Team Hopes to Avoid Claims Trial

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Richard Korman

A nonprofit representing the National World War II Museum is working toward a settlement but preparing for a jury trial in its lawsuit against the structural engineer of its $65-million …

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Sept 16, 2019

As the death toll from the record-setting hurricane mounts in the Bahamas and damage estimates there and in the U.S. head into the billions, industry experts see increasing pressure to address infrastructure resilience.

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