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Illinois Could Halt State Projects by June 30 as Budget Deadline Looms

Lack of a budget may lead to a statewide shutdown, for the third year in a row.

Jeff Yoders

June 15, 2017

Lack of a state budget, for the third year in a row, may lead to a statewide shutdown.

Construction and Program Management

The Top 100 Professional Service Firms: See Where Your Company Ranks

Increasing complexity has owners increasingly turning to third-party professional service firms

Gary J. Tulacz

June 14, 2017

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As project delivery becomes increasingly complex, owners are more likely to rely on third-party managers to assist them

Building Safety

Flames Stripped Building Cladding in London High-Rise Fire

At least 17 people have died and dozens of others suffered injuries

Peter Reina

June 14, 2017

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The building exterior cladding had been renovated or replaced last July; death toll now at 17.

The Top 100 Construction Project Delivery Firms

Gary J. Tulacz

June 8, 2017

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The promise of greater teamwork and faster project delivery has owners looking more favorably on alternative project delivery

'DodecaKong' Is Driving Gigantic Piles in China

Aileen Cho

May 24, 2017

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Anew 12-hammer pile-driving device, called the DodecaKong, has begun driving 30-meter-dia steel-pipe piles for an artificial island that will host a new airport in Sanya, China.

Construction Management

A New Survey Charts the Unfulfilled Expectations of Prefabrication

Off-site fabrication doesn’t always provide results contractors seek

Jim Parsons

May 3, 2017

Many of us have experienced that proverbial “lightbulb moment,” a flash of insight when the complexities of a new or challenging concept finally make sense.

The American Infrastructure

Trump's Border Wall Has Many Concepts, Few Big Bidders

A torrent of futuristic schemes for an unusual federal public works construction project

Scott Van Voorhis

April 28, 2017

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Will the president's late April pullback on 2017 funding delay the controversial project?

Old San Francisco Bay Bridge Span Near End

April 26, 2017

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CEC Silverado late last month removed the final 850-ton steel truss of the old East Span Bay Bridge, which crosses San Francisco Bay.

The American Infrastructure

With Bertha Landed, the Next Steps in Building the Seattle Tunnel

What's next in the effort to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct

Tim Newcomb

April 11, 2017

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Last week marked Bertha’s final push as a tunnel-boring machine.

Fiber-Reinforced-Polymer Grid Eyed in Double-T Collapses

Nadine M. Post

April 5, 2017

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Two separate failures of three cantilevered flanges of three precast, prestressed-concrete double-T parking-deck sections—reinforced with a non-code-compliant, high-strength carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer grid—are putting the spotlight on the structural safety of corrosion-resistant FRP grids for transverse reinforcement of double-Ts.