After two decades of difficult and controversial work on a nuclear waste cleanup approach never tried at this scale, the U.S. Energy Dept. will soon test the first phase of a $17-billion complex at its Hanford weapons site, set to manufacture glass logs from millions of gallons of waste.
After 17-year, $17B saga, Bechtel's recast waste glassification megaproject at U.S. Hanford site readies for first startup, but unresolved issues remain.
As the amount of digital data collected during construction continues to grow, stakeholders are asking for better intelligence on how projects are performing.
Getting BIM models to the field has been an ongoing struggle in the industry, with many ambitious stabs at cramming a whole BIM model onto a smartphone.
About half an hour before the almost-completed pedestrian bridge collapsed onto a busy Miami-area road last year, killing six people, Denney Pate, the bridge’s engineer-of-record, sent a text to Linda Figg, the chief executive of FIGG Bridge Engineers.
Aradondo Haskins, a former Detroit demolition projects official, has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for accepting $26,500 in bribes from contractors and rigging bids to tear down homes in a federally funded demolition program.
Once considered an "impossible" project, Norway has settled on a design for a 5-kilometer-long floating bridge to cross the 550-meter-deep Bjørna fjord.
While workforce shortages remain a high-risk factor for many contractors, few employers are using significant compensation increases to help address labor needs.
Ongoing dispute between city’s Regional Transportation District and design-build joint venture led by Balfour Beatty and Graham Construction has further delayed $343M project, , originally set to complete in 2018.
Portions of the draft of an American Institute of Steel Construction standard, Seismic Provisions for Evaluation and Retrofit of Existing Structural Steel Buildings (AISC 342), are available for public review until Nov. 4.