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The $1.2-billion Brandon Road Interbasin Project is being built in Joliet, Ill. to prevent Asian carp and other invasive species from entering the Great Lakes.  

Ryan Companies chosen as ENR Midwest's Contractor of the Year for 2025.

The 96-story Trump International Tower and Hotel in Chicago must make changes to its water cooling system to protect fish and aquatic life in the Chicago River. 

Paving company Anderson Brothers agreed to pay nearly $1.3 million to resolve allegations it knowingly falsified asphalt test results on state and federal projects. 

Bechtel has been hired to provide design, engineering and construction for the final three phases of the $2.5-billion, 1.6-GW Mammoth Solar facility in Indiana. 

Work paused due to use of an unauthorized vendor with alleged links previously to organized crime

A groundbreaking was held in April for the 395,000-sq-ft center, which is expected to enable the university to increase admission of engineering students by 1,000 a year.

The suit by Democratic attorneys general, which also names the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, as defendants, is the latest in a series of legal battles over energy and climate change. 

Firms' newly awarded contracts for work on Grain Belt Express high-voltage line's 530-mile first phase total nearly $1.7 billion. 

Lawsuits allege engineers were negligent in their design of temporary structural supports which led to the bridge's collapse in Clay County, Mo. The falsework contractor, which was fined by OSHA, was not named in the lawsuits.