With low oil prices still a nagging factor in the global economy, construction executives and researchers shared strategies for project delivery and business success in markets that are increasingly difficult to predict and more controlled by tightening costs.
U.K.-based design firm Atkins names industry veteran George Nash to run its North America unit, replacing exec who resigned; U. of California-Berkeley academic taught and researched for multiple decades.
Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party candidate for president, started a New Mexico mechanical contracting firm in the 1970s whose later sale made him a millionaire.
In an election in which the two presidential candidates are presenting starkly different views about governing approaches, many construction groups are keeping low profiles in the top contest, focusing attention—and resources—on congressional races.
The $1.6-billion Washington State Convention Center expansion project in downtown Seattle has a new contractor and a clear path toward the start of construction in 2017, while development on the Pacific Northwest’s largest hotel continues next door.
Milan-based contractor Salini Impregilo S.p.A. has accepted an informal challenge by Italy’s prime minister, Matteo Renzi, to complete a long stalled contract to build a record-breaking suspension bridge over the Messina Strait, between the mainland and Sicily.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached a settlement with Occidental Chemical Corp. to perform engineering and design work necessary to clean up 8.3 miles of New Jersey’s lower Passaic River, the most polluted portion.