Under the 12-year leadership of CEO Philip Asherman, Chicago Bridge & Iron grew, as the company points out, from a specialty tank subcontractor to a global energy infrastructure powerhouse.
As many as 170,000 Quebec construction workers walked off the job on May 24, halting work on the new Champlain bridge over the St. Lawrence, the Turcot Interchange in Montreal and other big projects.
As Massachusetts pushes to build the first U.S. utility-scale offshore wind farm, south of Martha’s Vineyard, it is competing with Maryland to become a domestic contractor supply chain hub.
A May 30 settlement in a convoluted legal dispute over an array of project issues on a much-delayed and overbudget bus-rail hub in a Washington, D.C. suburb, has brought parties less than they hoped for.