Corinne Grinapol

The Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank and Dept. of Environmental Management have selected consultant Arup to conduct a statewide study of its 400-mile-plus coastline to examine climate change impacts and risks.

Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) says NY Power Authority will run the effort to develop one or more power plants upstate but offers no specifics on design, siting or project delivery approach.

The suit by Democratic attorneys general, which also names the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, as defendants, is the latest in a series of legal battles over energy and climate change. 

Release of funds appropriated under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act and held at Citibank is currently being litigated in two D.C. federal courts.

Port infrastructure receives the highest grade, stormwater and transit the lowest as report authors say continued federal, state and local funding is necessary to continue improving the country's infrastructure. 

At the outset of a 1.6-mile, multimillion-dollar Phase II light rail extension project in Phoenix, representatives from project owner Valley Metro Rail, Kiewit-McCarthy, Jacobs and other consultants convened to brainstorm value engineering ideas.

Smartphone-based 3D scanning app Polycam uses the device’s onboard camera to capture scans of objects like sneakers and figurines to full room interiors—complete with details like furniture and cabinetry—as well as exterior structures.

DC federal judge on Feb. 3  extended her block of the Trump funding freeze on grants and loans, but industry groups still are unclear on where their project money is.

Judge issues temporary restraining order saying Trump's "earlier alleged rescission of federal funding halt ... was in name-only" and done "simply to defeat the jurisdiction of the courts."  

With desalination in Spain an important strategy amid ongoing water shortages partially linked to climate change, a plant in Torrevieja—a coastal Mediterranean city in the country's southeast—plans to boost its output of desalinated water by 50%.