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Project Financing

Riverlinx Consortium Wins Contract for $1.3B River Thames Tunnel

One of the UK's last privately financed infrastructure projects is to finish in 2025

May 30, 2019

Silvertown will likely be the last major privately financed infrastructure project in the UK for quite a while, with the PFI method falling from favor.

Transportation and Transit

Engineers Face Demand For Fee Cut On NY Projects

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority wants 10% off current contract work

Richard Korman

May 28, 2019

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It isn’t clear how many engineers complied with the cut required by the transportation authority.

The Trump Administration

Trump Ends Infrastructure Talks Before They Begin. Now What?

The president's abrupt exit from a meeting with Pelosi and Schumer leaves a $2-trillion plan hanging.

Tom Ichniowski

May 23, 2019

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Industry officials still see path forward, with highway-transit bill a key.

Viewpoint

You Can't Train Away Unconscious Bias

Jeffery Tobias Halter

May 23, 2019

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Confronting organizational impacts of deeply rooted biases will take more than a few hours of one-off instruction.

Vista River Water Supply Project in San Antonio

ENR 2019 Top 400 Contractors: The Market Keeps Growing

Gary J. Tulacz

May 23, 2019

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The market has hit its tenth year of growth, one of the longer expansions in history. But firms don’t see any signs of a cooling off.

Raises Are Up and So Is Time Flexibility, HR Directors Report

Debra K. Rubin

May 23, 2019

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More AEC employers are addressing gender parity in compensation, 200 surveyed companies report.

Amid Funding and Design Battles, Border Wall Contracts Are Challenged

May 22, 2019

As Congressional Democrats push new blocks to milcon funds for barriers and President Donald Trump seeks expensive changes, awarded contracts are protested.

AECOM R&D Credits Helped Zero Out 2018 Federal Taxes

Scott Van Voorhis

May 22, 2019

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AECOM’s success in reducing its 2018 corporate tax liability from potentially tens of millions of dollars down to zero may seem like magic.

New Contracting Documents for Tunneling Released

Scott Blair

May 22, 2019

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The International Federation of Consulting Engineers and the International Tunneling and Underground Space Association (ITA-AITES) launched a new set of contract documents specifically tailored to the challenges of underground works that involve geologic uncertainty, including tunneling and foundations.