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With the successful completion of the $1-billion seawater desalination plant in Carlsbad, Calif., the project’s developer is moving forward with plans to build a second plant at Huntington Beach.

Officials from various water-related entities highlighted some of the problems associated with the historic drought that is plaguing much of the western U.S.—as well as some solutions to address it—at Engineering News-Record’s second annual Western Water Conference.

A Los Angeles car museum gets a renovation to match its collection with a cherry-red exterior and 310 distinct metal panels flowing around it like a fluid-dynamics wind-tunnel test.

“2016 is shaping up as a great year for the South Bay/San Jose construction and development economy,” LaVelle says.

Suspecting that the California High- Speed Rail Authority intentionally misled the state Legislature on costs, state Assembly Republicans are seeking to subpoena state documents on the estimated $68-billion high-speed-rail (HSR) project and set up a special committee to receive sworn testimony from CHSRA officials.

Balfour Beatty Construction promoted Sean Holliday to vice president and business unit leader of its Northern California office in Oakland.

Driven by strong residential growth, “opportunities in commercial construction in the Riverside area are growing rapidly as well,” Gilley says.

Contracting firms, propelled by red hot markets in California’s major cities, continued to see revenue climb in 2014.

The Bureau of Reclamation and the California Dept. of Water Resources (CWR) offered additional detail to their revised plan to build a $15-billion water conveyance system in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.