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The proposed bypass fix for the troubled Fremont Street girders of San Francisco's Salesforce Transit Center calls for bolting 20-in.-wide steel cover plates above and below the fractured bottom flange, like a double splint.

The City of Denver shuts down selection process on a big expansion project to investigate possible bid rigging before finalists were interviewed.

Terry Morgan's ouster as chair of HS2 and Crossrail comes as the latter London tunnel line faces a new $2.5-billion budget hole and a likely finish beyond 2019.

But perspectives are at odds related to a reduced federal funding role in looming legislation.

Pierre Duhaime was forced out in 2012 in the wake of a contract payoff scandal in Libya and Montreal.

The magnitudes 7.0 and 5.7 earthquakes that struck Anchorage, Alaska, on Nov. 30 shook buildings and shattered highways, but caused limited structural damage and no reported loss of life, mostly due to the depth and location of the quake’s epicenter, as well as the city and state’s stringent building requirements.