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Unusual Footbridge Will Link To Remote English Island

Crossing will provide access to King Arthur-related artifacts.

Peter Reina

June 25, 2019

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Transportation Infrastructure

Highway Advocates Push to Cancel $7.6B Federal Funding Rescission

Tom Ichniowski

June 21, 2019

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Key lawmakers, industry groups seek repeal of FAST Act provision.

EPA Looks to Reduce Coal Plant Carbon Emissions with Efficiency Improvements

Clean Power Plan Is Repealed and Replaced

Pam Radtke Russell

June 19, 2019

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The Affordable Clean Energy rule will establish a framework for emission reductions for coal plants. States will develop specific plans.

Airports Aim Higher With Alternative Project Delivery

Aileen Cho

June 19, 2019

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Airports across America with major capital programs underway are trying to push alternative project delivery methods to new levels, although design-bid-build is still used for a majority of horizontal work.

Hyperloop Hope in Kansas City

Aileen Cho

June 19, 2019

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Kansas City, Mo., is hoping to become the first city in the U.S., and perhaps the world, to deploy Hyperloop transportation technology.

Would You Drink Treated Wastewater?

A Growing Number of Communities are Considering Potable Reuse

Pam Radtke Russell

June 19, 2019

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Water recycling and other forms of reuse—such as direct potable reuse—have become mainstream enough to attract the attention of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Long Beach Taps LA Exec To Run Airport

June 19, 2019

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Leadership shakeup in $7B-a year U.S. government nuke cleanup program

Principals of Two Western Firms Are Dead

June 19, 2019

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Seattle designer NBBJ and $1.6B Calgary builder Graham Holdings lose key leaders.

Infrastructure 'Bonus' May Be Thinner in Fiscal 2020

Tom Ichniowski

June 19, 2019

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As construction industry officials wait to see whether Congress will agree to raise overall federal spending caps for fiscal 2020 and 2021, House Democratic appropriators are pushing to approve as many of the spending bills for fiscal year 2020 as they can by the July 4 break.

LA County Metro Unveils Two New TBMs for Purple Line Extension

Erica Berardi

June 19, 2019

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The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) on Monday unveiled two new tunnel boring machines (TBMs) for the authority's $9.3 billion Purple Line Extension project, which will connect subway transit service from downtown Los Angeles to the city's westside by 2027.