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Buildings

Bronx Courthouse Undergoes $41.6M in Extensive Repairs—So Far

February 25, 2022

Numerous fixes continue a decade and a half after the project completed late and over budget, and may not be finished after a second capital project ends in May.

With Big Claims, Designer Insurance Costs Can Only Go Up

Richard Korman

February 25, 2022

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As engineers' Flint water liability trial starts, new survey finds more than half of insurers report claim severity worsened in 2021 than the prior year, with half saying they raised premiums 6% to more than 10%.

Rural Transportation

Feds Suspend $600M Alaska Mine Road Project for New Permit Review

James Leggate

February 24, 2022

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Interior Dept. says prior administration's environmental analysis of the Ambler mine access road across national park and federally managed land had “significant deficiencies.”

Workforce

ABC Says Infrastructure Act Will Worsen Industry's Labor Crunch

Pam McFarland

February 23, 2022

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New Associated Builders and Contractors model shows industry this year will need nearly 650,000 additional workers above normal hiring pace to meet demand for labor.

Legal

UPDATE: Feds Want Court Ruling By March 15 to Restore Social Cost of Carbon Metric

Mary B. Powers

February 22, 2022

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In appeals court filing, Justice Dept. says Louisiana judge's Feb. 14 injunction of metric is "illogical, unreasonable, and unlawful," and has halted work on oil and gas permits, NEPA reviews and rulemaking.

Sustainable Design

Tools Gaining Industry Traction to Manage Building Carbon Emissions

Peter Reina

February 20, 2022

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UK and Finnish technologies provide designers quicker reads of embodied carbon impacts of their structural and materials choices. "We've been waiting for [something like this] for as long as I've been in the industry," says one engineering firm manager.

Clean Energy Construction

Feds Roll Out $12.1B in Infra Funding for Carbon Capture Tech, Pipelines

Mary B. Powers

Debra K. Rubin

February 20, 2022

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White House seeks comment by March 18 on approaches to extract CO2 from sources and from the air, with $2B for new pipelines. Capture projects have strong critics, but DOE also funds $4M of planned Rio Tinto-Talon Metals nickel mine demo project in Minnesota.

Energy

Enbridge to Issue RFPs for $500M Straits of Mackinac Oil-Gas Tunnel

Replacement for Line 5 pipeline could start construction as early as 2024

Annemarie Mannion

February 17, 2022

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Replacement for aging Line 5 pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac could start construction by 2024.

Workforce

Site Intelligence Provider Eyrus Raises $12M, With Autodesk an Investor

Construction and oil and gas customers are main users of visibility/reporting services

Jeff Yoders

February 17, 2022

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Alexandra McManus, CEO and co-founder, says startup's platform, which automates workforce data collection in real time, has been used on more than $220 billion worth of construction projects.

Energy Disaster

ASCE Report Calls for Sweeping Changes to Texas Grid Infrastructure

C.J. Schexnayder

February 17, 2022

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Detailed analysis of the catastrophic 2021 Texas winter storm finds systemic flaws in the state's electric sector contributed to a "cascade of failures" that overwhelmed the power grid.