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Building on a tight site for the Elliot Hospital Emergency Department Expansion while keeping the ED operational required careful team planning and nimbleness, especially when Covid brought the sudden, unexpected need for to redesign the Manchester, N.H. hospital project.

Dominion's 2.6-GW project off Virginia Beach and Orsted's 1-GW Sunrise Wind project off Long Island gain initial federal environmental reviews—with a key state green light also granted to the former—as onshore port hubs struggle to keep pace to support developing construction needs. 

The formal challenge takes issue with a December 2021 guidance document from FHWA on how states might use the billions of federal highway formula dollars provided by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

Owner TC Energy announced partial reopening Dec. 14 of the Canada-to-U.S crude oil line but has not said what caused the pipe rupture or when cleanup of the spill into a Kansas creek would be completed.

Update: Biden signs one-week stopgap to keep government operating while lawmakers hammer out an omnibus package. 

Lawrence Livermore National Lab team successfully produced more nuclear fusion energy than it took to start the reaction using lasers, U.S. Energy Dept. officials said Dec. 13, with more private and academic competition underway to shorten timeframes to commercialize power generation.

ENR’s 20-city average cost indexes, wages and materials prices. Historical data and details for ENR’s 20 cities can be found at ENR.com/economics

Bluestone Coke signed a consent decree covering toxic emissions of its now idled Birmingham, Ala., plant that produces coke from coal.

Two TIFIA loans are expected to help Virginia finance its $2.7-billion program to modernize its stretch of Interstate 81.

Almost 100 projects were submitted for judging in this year’s ENR Northwest Best Projects competition. From those, an independent panel of judges selected 19 for recognition: 13 Best Projects and seven awards of merit across 15 categories.