Judging from figures in spending bills making their way through Congress, the Army Corps of Engineers civil-works program is in line for a modest fiscal year 2017 funding increase that will nudge the total to a new high.
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.
Rebuilding after the Feb. 2011 magnitude-6.3 earthquake in Christchurch, a city of 382,000 people, offers a cautionary tale for future disaster recovery.
An examination of the legal record shows how concern on paper prior to work on a bridge at Baylor University in 2014 did not foreclose choices and lapses in the field that culminated in tragedy.
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.