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CONEXPO 2017 was set in fast-growing Las Vegas, where the Nevada Dept. of Transportation, 100 years old this year, “has $3 billion in road projects underway in Clark County alone,” said Tony Illia, NDOT public information officer.

The final list will appear, ranked by dollar volume, in the April issue of ENR Mountain States.

Included in the bills was $100 million to fund infrastructure at the site of the new state prison.

While top state transportation officials look and listen for hints about President Trump’s promised, still unreleased infrastructure plan, they are working to cope with more-immediate funding issues.

A positive safety culture can have effects reaching far beyond the jobsite.

Gains are reported for the nonresidential, public works and electric utilities sectors.

How one team managed risk and reliability with careful design and documentation of numerical relays.

The 5.2-mile-long Michigan Ditch was originally constructed in the early 1900s to convey water from the west side of the mountain range to the east.

Anecdotal evidence reflects a trend of more women working in construction, yet demographics suggest that women remain a laregly untapped labor market.