The recently enacted Inflation Reduction Act contains highway-related provisions that aim to give a boost to infrastructure projects in disadvantaged communities and for the use of low-carbon construction materials on federal highway projects.
In the jobsite trailer for the $121-million renovation and expansion of the University of Virginia’s Alderman Library, Skanska project executive John Calvin points to copies of 1937 construction photos showing the 100,000-sq-ft horseshoe-shaped structure being carved into a hillside below the school’s historic Rotunda and Academical Village.