Seasonally-adjusted employment figures were kind to both Washington and Oregon, but construction employment continues to falter in Alaska and overall unemployment remains high.
The home of the Arizona State University football team will undergo several structural, facility and technological upgrades before to the start of the 2017 season.
There is one bright spot in the December “termination for convenience” of the main contracting joint venture on the Boston area’s Green Line Extension light-rail project: No one is pointing fingers at the contractor as the key culprit behind the project’s soaring cost, which currently is $700 million to $1 billion over its roughly $2-billion budget.
Valley Metro has selected Sundt/Stacy and Witbeck, a long-standing, joint-venture between Sundt Construction and, Stacy and Witbeck, to construct another section of the Phoenix-metro light rail public transportation system.
Facing possible bankruptcy, the Spanish power behemoth Abengoa has filed for preliminary creditor protection and is winding down construction projects worldwide.