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Contracting firm leaders at the Associated General Contractors of America’s annual convention report that maintaining healthy backlogs and battling workforce shortages remain their top priorities.

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

Collins and Reed are concerned about how the budget plan will affect programs such as the popular TIGER grants.

A contractor’s risk of being assessed liquidated damages for delayed performance looms large on any public or private contract.

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.