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Viewpoint

Making Margins Matter in People Management

Mark DeVerges, DHG Search

August 18, 2017

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An AEC recruiter shares best practices to turn HR from an expense to a profit center.

Obituaries

Modernist Architect Gunnar Birkerts is Dead at 92

August 18, 2017

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Latvian-born practitioner pioneered the structural use of suspension bridge principles in design of the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis, in 1973.

Roadbuilding Odyssey

Traffic Management Where Old Greek Road Met the New

August 17, 2017

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The Olympia Odos project—largest of the five concessionaires with an original contract of more than $2 billion, now restructured in a reduced scope to $1.4 billion—comes with its share of Olympic-sized challenges.

Roadbuilding Odyssey

Greek Motorway: A Mountain Full of Faults and Limestone

August 17, 2017

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While Olympia Odos is the largest single concessionaire project of the five, Greece’s Gek Terna and Spain’s ACS and Ferrovial are the key players in two of the others—Nea Odos and Kentriki Odos, totalling over $2 billion.

Federal Regulations

New Trump Order Aims To Speed Review of Infrastructure Project

Directive sets two-year target for completing federal approvals

Tom Ichniowski

August 17, 2017

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Executive order also revokes 2015 Obama directive establishing flood-risk standard for infrastructure projects.

Construction Risk Management

Will AIA's Revised Contract Options Prompt More Insurance Coverage?

Richard Korman

Scott Van Voorhis

August 16, 2017

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In revising its standard form agreements, AIA calls out as optional additional coverage that could be added to builders' risk policies.

San Francisco Signs $1-Billion Contract to Upgrade Plant

August 16, 2017

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The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission awarded a $939-million contract to joint-venture partners MWH Constructors and Webcor Builders to replace biosolid digester facilities at the Southeast Water Pollution Control Plant, in San Francisco.

Firm Plans to Build New LNG Terminal at Port Fourchon, La.

August 16, 2017

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A Hong Kong-based company is seeking to build an $888-million liquefied-natural-gas terminal at Port Fourchon, the nation’s largest offshore oil-and-gas port. Energy World, operating as Fourchon LNG, would produce, export and use LNG to fuel the next generation of offshore supply vessels.