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Nearly five years into the execution of Louisiana’s long-range plan to halt and reverse the loss of coastal land, state officials are drafting the first five-year update.

An ongoing political battle between the Obama administration and Congress over construction of the budget-busting Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility in South Carolina heated up after Oct. 3, when Vladimir Putin announced that Russia is suspending its participation in the international treaty governing plutonium disposition that served as the project’s impetus.

It took 80-ft-deep, dense soil for “Bertha,” the world’s largest-diameter tunnel-boring machine, to finally hit her stride.

The construction market has been growing steadily for the past few years.

Despite several years of recovery, construction inflation is still feeling the impact of the recession that reduced the number of subcontractors and, in turn, still is pushing up bids.

The American Society of Civil Engineers is preparing to publish the world’s first standard for the design of critical structures to resist the impact of tsunamis.