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Steam generator components are main focus of U.S. work, with numerous inspections ongoing to revive the 55-year-old Michigan power station; Japan, meanwhile, is forced for a second time to delay restart of its world-record size nuclear plant, shut down since the 2011 Fukushima meltdown.

The nation’s first indoor nonprofit tennis club built by and for the Black community is embarking on the home stretch of a campus renovation.

MTA must determine whether a westward extension beneath 125th Street remains viable.

Giant 2.6-GW project, nearly complete, is last of three to win a federal court reprieve in one week from Trump administration-ordered construction shutdowns, with two other projects awaiting decisions.

As the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey advances a $3.5B AirTrain Newark replacement toward procurement, contractors are watching how the airport megaproject will enter the market.

From a young age, Col. Eric R. Swenson found himself drawn to construction and earthmoving equipment,“so much so that as a child I once lost my parents on a family bike ride after stopping to watch the Army Corps of Engineers dredging operations in Ocean City, N.J.,” Swenson says.

Launching an environmental justice case in Syracuse, N.Y. in 2018, Lanessa Owens-Chaplin looked beyond her lawsuit against the $2.3-billion plan to replace the aging Interstate 81 viaduct bisecting a historically Black neighborhood.

René Morkos is a second-generation civil engineer who has worked on underwater pipeline construction, automation engineering on a $350-million gas refinery expansion project in Abu Dhabi and as a project manager in Afghanistan.

Abigail Ross Hopper, the outgoing president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association, has been the face and voice of the influential clean power advocacy group since she took the top role in 2017, and widely credited for the sector’s huge growth over nearly a decade.

As the sustainability movement took hold in construction a quarter-century ago, concrete maker Louis P. Grasso Jr. was nudged by its leaders to gain a competitive edge by producing a pozzolan made from locally sourced recycled glass to reduce cement’s carbon content.