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In most of the region’s major metropolitan areas, project sectors are still driving significant construction activity

In February, Georgia Power reported that workers at the Vogtle 3 and 4 project completed the final concrete placement inside the Unit 3 containment vessel, which houses the unit’s reactor.

An 11-story office tower in Dallas, Texas was set to be brought down in a controlled demolition in Feb. 16, which dropped the outer shell of the building but failed to bring down the structure’s concrete core. 

As efforts advance to finally demolish the partially collapsed Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans, two city building inspectors have been suspended for failing to properly inspect the site last summer.

BP's plan would result in reducing the company’s emissions to net zero from a current total of 415 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year — and could create new work for the AEC industry.