Proponents see eased barriers for big construction projects, but others say environmental review cutbacks will create climate change risk and be tied up in lawsuits.
Crews knee-deep in grit and mud at a jobsite don’t often think about aesthetics, but under a photographer’s watchful gaze, intense action becomes frozen in time and often reflects a poignant beauty.
U.S. Dept. of Transportation investigators have opened a criminal inquiry into the use of federal funds for four downtown Seattle transportation projects.
The New York governor signed into law Dec. 30 a bill approved by state legislators last summer allowing the use of design-build for a handful of New York City departments.
A 60-40 joint venture of Granite Construction Inc. and Ralph L. Wadsworth Construction Co. LLC has won a $348-million progressive design-build contract to upgrade a stretch of U.S. 89 in Utah.
Puerto Rico, which has been experiencing seismic activity since late December, was rocked Jan. 6 and 7 when a pair of strong earthquakes took down buildings and caused widespread power outages, according to news reports.
With a massive appropriations package now in place for the rest of fiscal year 2020, engineering firms and contractors can breathe easier as the construction season approaches, knowing how much funding is available through Sept. 30 for important federal infrastructure programs.
Plans to build the nation’s largest solar energy farm took a major step toward reality in late December with the release of the federal Bureau of Land Management’s final environmental impact statement for the proposed $1-billion Gemini Solar Project in Nevada.
Under a new settlement with state regulators, communities and environmental groups, Duke Energy will spend $3.5 billion to close its last nine coal-ash storage impoundments in North Carolina, bringing the company’s cost of closing all of its coal-ash sites in North and South Carolina to between $8 billion and $9 billion.
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