Rusty cables, cut-up steel and column remnants lie in heaps along Interstate 95 as crews prepare for construction of the southbound half of the new Whittier Bridge.
Within the past year, both European and U.S. officials have investigated the cement industry for price collusion, anti-trust issues and other unfair business practices.
Management of California contractor C.C. Myers Inc. has been ordered to appear in Sacramento County Superior Court in October after two lawsuits were filed against the company last week for breach of contract for not paying subcontractors on projects in Contra Costa and Sonoma counties.
Removal of four dams on the Klamath River in California by 2020 will close the book on one of the most intractable issues in Western environmental management.
The U.S. Interior Dept. has approved construction of a 287-MW solar-photovoltaic project on 1,767 acres of federal land in the Mojave Desert, near Baker, Calif.
The final portion of Water Tunnel No. 3 will be ready by 2020, Mayor Bill De Blasio (D) said one day after reports that the mayor himself had delayed the project.
To address climate change, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a list of alternatives to hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)—gases that are used in refrigeration, air-conditioning, fire-suppression and ventilation systems for commercial and other types of buildings as well as in cars, aircraft and machinery.
General Electric subsidiary Alstom and China contracting giant Sinohydro Corp. have signed an agreement in principle to build, operate and maintain what would be Israel’s largest pumped-storage project, a 340-MW facility to be built in northern Israel.
After a slow start, the U.S. Dept. of Transportation is stepping up its work in distributing funding from the $305-billion, five-year Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act to state and local agencies.