Texas & Southeast Construction News - Articles - Page 189 | Engineering News-Record

Home » Topics » Texas & Southeast » Texas & Southeast Construction News

Please login below or register to access this content.

Texas & Southeast Construction News
RSS

Resilience Revolving Loan Fund Press Conference

House Bill Would Create $100M Disaster-Aid Revolving Loan Fund

Proposal follows recommendations of mayors of Mississippi River cities dealing with flooding

Jeff Yoders

July 26, 2019

No Comments

Measure proposed by House members from the flood-battered Midwest,would establish a fund to support loans for resilience projects.

Transportation Infrastructure

DOT Picks Winners for $856 Million in New INFRA Grants

Tom Ichniowski

July 25, 2019

No Comments

Largest grants, $125 million, go to new Mobile River, Ala., bridge and expanding Baltimore rail tunnel.

Philip Freelon by Mark Herboth, from Perkins and Will

Obituaries

Architect Philip Freelon, Designer of Notable Public Buildings, Dies at 66

July 15, 2019

No Comments

Noted African-American practitioner, now Perkins & Will design director in N.C., led work on a Smithsonian Institution museum and other U.S. civic and cultural projects and taught at MIT.

Tidal Flooding Closing in on Coastal Infrastructure

Pam Radtke Russell

July 11, 2019

No Comments

NOAA report says coastal cities had five days of high tide flooding in 2018, tying the 2015 record. But problem is only growing.

Houston Imagines a Resilient City

Two separate efforts explore options

Pam Radtke Russell

July 9, 2019

No Comments

With Hurricane Harvey almost two years in the rearview mirror, Houstonians have started to imagine a future city that is resilient to storms and stressors that can be a model for the nation.

Top 500 Sourcebook: Cruise Line HQ Mimics Ship Design

Bruce Buckley

June 19, 2019

No Comments

Royal Caribbean’s New HQ Mimics Its Cruise Ships

The Florida International University Tragedy

Bridge Designer Testifies on Evidence One Day After OSHA Slams FIGG

Scott Judy

Richard Korman

June 19, 2019

6 Comments

The engineer of record testifies about his cellphone after OSHA report on fatal collapse notes alleged errors.

Corps Drops Land Levees for Sand Dune System in Texas

Louise Poirier

June 19, 2019

No Comments

Public outcry over a proposed 17-ft wall and other physical barriers to prevent storm surge along the Texas coast has led the Army Corps of Engineers to switch gears.