The doughnut-shaped Jewel Changi Airport mall in Singapore sets a new level for retail development complexity, thanks to its land-side location and its centerpiece—a multilevel garden under glass with a 40-meter-tall indoor waterfall.
The outlook for new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency guidance aimed at streamlining permit approvals for natural gas pipelines and other energy infrastructure projects is murky, at best, and could lead to more frequent legal skirmishes, some observers say.
As state is set to award its first 1,100-MW offshore wind farm contract, activists want it to restrict approvals of new natural-gas and other fossil fuel projects.
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.
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.
Public outcry over a proposed 17-ft wall and other physical barriers to prevent storm surge along the Texas coast has led the Army Corps of Engineers to switch gears.
Two projects to improve the quality, quantity and distribution of water in the Everglades National Park in Florida—the construction of a reservoir and the raising of a portion of the Tamiami Trail—moved forward in June.
In Sweden, a partnership between MIPS Corp., a company that specializes in helmet-liner systems for protecting the brain, and Guardio Safety AB, a Swedish industrial safety firm, has led to the release in June of a construction hardhat, or helmet, designed to mitigate brain-damaging forces that often are suffered in construction falls.
The Interstate 635 LBJ Freeway in Dallas is set to undergo a $1.7- billion upgrade to improve capacity, safety and operational efficiency in a corridor that currently handles more than 200,000 vehicles per day.
In May, Wood Group entered a new one-year contract with Chevron Australia to provide subsea integration and flow assurance front-end engineering design (FEED) services for the Jansz-lo compression project offshore of Western Australia.
The country’s first large-scale wind farms are under design off the coast of Maryland and Massachusetts, while two other large projects in those states are in the early stages of development.
Hazen and Sawyer is working with AECOM to provide program management services for the full-scale $1-billion implementation of the Sustainable Water Initiative for Tomorrow (SWIFT) for Hampton Roads Sanitation District (HRSD) in southeastern Virginia.
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.
DaikyoNishikawa US (DNUS) is planning to establish a plastic automotive components manufacturing plant near the Mazda Toyota Manufacturing USA Inc. automotive assembly plant currently under construction in Huntsville.
With recent project execution issues and results surprises among publicly traded engineering and construction firms, some question traditional industry business models.