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Contractors are embracing new technologies to help reduce costs for traditional and renewable electricity generation as the industry continues to build, almost exclusively, natural gas, solar and wind power plants.

Despite ongoing uncertainty regarding federal funding promises, there is no shortage of opportunities in all sectors of U.S. transportation.

Top contractors in the general-building sectors continue to see big bumps in revenue, especially those expanding their geographic reach.

With crews at work dismantling two Hurricane Irma-damaged cranes in the city of Miami and a third in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., local leaders are wondering whether Florida’s crane regulations are adequate for the highly vulnerable region.

Even as hard-hit areas of two of the country’s most developed regions push for normalcy after back-to-back hurricanes in early September, policymakers and construction industry experts are weighing the longer-term implications of the damage in Houston, Florida and the Caribbean from Harvey and Irma—and how and whether infrastructure resiliency can be accelerated and how that will affect coastal development.

Work to fully automate the kinetic oculus of the roof of Atlanta’s $1.5-billion Mercedes-Benz Stadium, which opened late last month, will continue through the fall, says developer-operator AMB Group LLC.

The University of Maine’s Volturnus offshore floating wind-turbine design has passed a two-year review by the American Bureau of Shipping, the university announced in a Sept. 14 statement.