Construction firms join power providers caught in contract issues from giant utility’s Jan. 29 bankruptcy filing; the company also releases details of an extensive wildfire mitigation plan and upgrade.
Even as Canada’s government boosted national infrastructure spending by 11% from 2015 to 2017 and launched the Canada Infrastructure Bank to attract and funnel private-sector project dollars, private investment declined 18% in the same period, says a report by a think tank at Ontario’s Western University.
A software developer with a focus on quantifying weather risk in the insurance industry has branched out to apply its chops to the development of a hyperlocal software-as-a-service weather risk-management system for construction that launched Jan. 29.
Construction industry officials are poring over President Trump’s new executive order that aims to expand “Buy American” preferences for infrastructure projects.