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The team delivering Salt Lake City’s newest luxury apartment tower didn’t anticipate that they’d be building Utah's tallest structure, but crews are now halfway to reaching that milestone.

While record snows have covered the campus of Utah State University this winter, planners at Utah’s fourth-largest university have been anything but hibernating.

Densification is in full swing in Colorado Springs: As of early 2023, about 25% of the 5,000 multifamily units now under construction in the city are downtown.

Construction firms in the mountain states are plenty busy. A surge of people moving to the region—especially Colorado, Utah and Idaho—has created a “solid funnel of multifamily housing projects,” says Jeff Palmer, executive vice president at Layton Construction.

Industry executive, named to head the Federal Aviation Administration, withdrew as a candidate after Senate Republicans said he lacked experience for the job.

At the European Union summit, negotiations got underway on details to launch continent toward self-sufficient clean energy manufacturing and materials sourcing to meet proposed net-zero emissions goals.

The initial congressional hearing on President Joe Biden’s 2024 US Dept. of Transportation budget proposal showed evidence of continued strong bipartisan support for infrastructure, although the parties differed on the specifics.

DOE's push to attract private investors is seen to fast-track commercialization of clean hydrogen, long duration energy storage and advanced nuclear power.

The action stems from an ongoing dispute involving the Birmingham, Ala.-based company, Mexico's government and Mexican cement producer CEMEX.

Bechtel, Zachry Group and KBR are named EPC contractors for just-sanctioned Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast LNG production sites, while Canada regulators approve two projects to move forward.