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Contractors in Boston broke ground on Jan. 30 at the long-anticipated, $240-million Fenway Center megadevelopment.

The $2.4 billion Wynn Boston Harbor project is reportedly moving forward despite the fact that casino mogul Stephen A. Wynn resigned on Feb. 6.

 A New York company and two utilities have a cost-effective solution to the nation’s aging underground infrastructure: a robot that crawls through cast-iron natural-gas pipelines and replaces their deteriorating joints, effectively renewing the pipes for up to 50 years.

New Hampshire’s energy-infrastructure siting board on Feb. 1 unanimously rejected the Northern Pass power-line project.

Construction of a high-speed maglev train system between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., could begin as early as 2020. 

New York adopts first U.S. offshore wind master plan, but New Hampshire rejects permit Feb. 1 for New England hydroelectric transmission from Canada.

Three years after its much-publicized launch, Pennsylvania’s ambitious Rapid Bridge Replacement Program is well short of its goal to replace 558 structurally deficient bridges.

MacKay Construction is building Martin’s Park, a $13-million project to celebrate the lives of the marathon bombing victims. 

The Allegheny County Airport Authority has begun its search for architect-engineering firms to realize Pittsburgh International Airport’s $1.1-billion terminal modernization program.

The cold weather that swept across the Eastern Seaboard in early January is heating up the debate over the need for a more robust infrastructure to deliver natural gas to New England.