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State transportation agencies in North Carolina and Tennessee are still assessing damage from the storm, forecasting a months-long effort to repair hard-hit critical arteries such as Interstate-40. 

Turner Construction is preparing the temporary passenger corridors in advance of heavy construction.

Infrastructure agency chiefs need new ways to keep coastal and urban structures, critical bridge crossings and even public sector diversity programs hardened against growing climate change and human-caused risks, they told an ENR conference in Manhattan on Sept. 16.

NYC's MTA, as well as Amtrak, NJ Transit and Gateway Development Commission are pushing out new spending for regional rail upgrades and expansion.     

The U.S. Dept. of Justice seeks $100 million in damages related to the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge after it was struck by the container vessel M/V Dali.

Construction is underway to replace Commercial Street Bridge, an 861-ft-long open spandrel concrete arch structure that rises up to 85 ft above Nine Mile Run and Frick Park in Pittsburgh.

A joint venture of Kokosing, Alberici and Traylor Bros. has been working on the final phase of the New Lock at the Soo project since 2022.

The East San Fernando Valley Light Rail Transit Project will begin construction later this year.

This cover photo shows Chinese engineers constructing a hand-made wooden bridge across the Tanai Hka River in Myanmar, then known as Burma.

The settlement allows the tollway to move forward on the project with Illinois-based Walsh Construction, which had been the next lowest bidder.