With the $305-billion Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act on the books for nearly three months, the focus now has shifted to moving the five-year measure’s 2016 funding out to the states and turned into construction contracts.
Ex-Executive VP Thomas Rospos of now-defunct Birdsall Services Group takes third-degree plea on Feb. 25 as his trial began in $1-milion scheme; ex-CEO Howard Birdsall pleaded guilty on Feb. 18.
CEOs of Mace, Carillion, Arup and W.S. Atkins, who joined leaders of 200 leading British firms, say leaving the group could hurt workforce recruitment.
Global building products giant CRH is latest to exit the Israel market, but firm says its sale of a 25% stake in a large local cement firm was not due to boycott pressure.
Aiming for an economic boost as part of China’s anticipated Silk Road corridor to Europe, the republic of Georgia has picked a local-U.S. joint venture, backed by global investors, to develop a $2.5-billion deep-sea port at Anaklia on the Black Sea.