It all started with a missing 'e'—how a young project manager pushed her safety innovation past the early misses into the culture of this giant contractor.
The U.K. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority will cancel a 14-year contract worth about $7.7 billion awarded in 2014 and pay over $122 million compensation to the U.S.-based consortium that failed to win the contract.
A federal probe into the July 2016 crane collapse at the Tappan Zee Bridge
replacement project, near New York City, faults the contracting team for numerous safety violations, resulting in a $12,675 fine from the U.S. Occupational Health and Safety Administration on Jan. 18.
Major oil-and-gas companies are dispatching battalions of scientists, engineers and marketers to squeeze profits from the tightest project margins, often against fierce competition.