Seven construction groups are urging the U.K. government and employers to secure the industry’s migrant workforce amid continuing negotiations over the country’s withdrawal from the European Union in March 2019.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk made good on his vow to the state of South Australia, installing a 100-MW, 129-MWh lithium-ion battery system in less than 100 working days at a 315-MW wind farm north of Adelaide.
High above New York City’s streets, ironworkers building the 70-story One Manhattan West tower are laboring inside of a six-story, 900-ton steel-mesh cocoon that hydraulically crawls up the sides of the building as they erect structural steel around the tower’s concrete core.
A mix of brute force and cutting-edge technology enabled contractors to replace a large portion of Oroville Dam’s spillway chute in just 165 days, meeting a Nov. 1 deadline set in anticipation of the start of northern California’s winter rainy season.
Based on 2016 tests of a composite cross-laminated timber-and-concrete floor system, architect-engineer Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has released guidance on how to analyze composite timber floors and predict their behavior in wood frames.
Seattle’s Sound Transit had a challenging problem: how to get a new light-rail line on and off a nearly 1-mile-long Interstate 90 floating bridge while protecting the rails from the constant movement of the water.
After successfully retrieving a novel tidal turbine system deployed in the Bay of Fundy last November, a Nova Scotia research team is upgrading its second turbine and monitoring equipment for another deployment in 2018.
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