An excavator recently broke through a wall separating two sections of the $9.6-billion Brenner Base Tunnel, creating a 24.1-km continuous bore from the south portal at Fortezza, Italy to the Austrian border.
Renewables added 6.62GW of utility scale power to US grid, up 11.5% from one year ago. Nine states set offshore wind targets totaling nearly 45 GW, with New York breaking ground on the second utility scale project in the country.
In a sign of continued interest in technologies for tracking work progress and keeping on schedule, Israel-based startup Buildots announced that it has raised $60 million in a Series C funding round.