With interest in construction rapidly growing among technology venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, established industry startups seek to set themselves apart.
The University of Texas at San Antonio’s $9.95-million Large-Scale Testing Laboratory will provide space for students and researchers in the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering to test the structural integrity of systems in a realistic setting.
Construction software giant Autodesk has doubled down on a commitment it made two years ago, when then-new CEO Andrew Anagnost said it was a construction software company first, so making its tools work in an automated construction workplace is its future.
Civil infrastructure is starting to catch up to buildings in terms of adopting 3D modeling, as companies like Autodesk Inc. expand their suite of tools to include transportation.
Seattle and King County, Wash., want to block voted-in ballot initiative that would blow a half-billion-dollar hole in funding plans and delay city's light-rail system expansion.
Specialized programs spring up for craft and tech professionals, on land and at sea, who will build new facilities and an emerging construction sector that some value at $70 billion.
Justice Dept. effort links with US Attorneys and IG investigators to find bid collusion on government contracts and private sector work that undermines competition, federal officials say.
There is a huge economy tied to climate change, and government officials, academics, engineers and contractors all are part of it, says Jesse Keenan, a social scientist on the faculty at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and JFK School of Government in Science, Technology and Public Policy.
Massachusetts regulators approved final permitting on Nov. 12 for the controversial Weymouth Compressor Station for the $452-million Atlantic Bridge pipeline project that would extend from New England to Canada.
Opponents are continuing to push against the proposed Pebble Mine project in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska, even as the Army Corps of Engineers is expected to issue a final Environmental Impact Statement on the project next year.
The Texas Dept. of Transportation has suspended design work on Corpus Christi’s Harbor Bridge pending a safety review of plans prepared by FIGG Bridge Group, one of the firms faulted by the National Transportation Safety Board for last year’s deadly pedestrian bridge collapse at Florida International University.
On Nov. 19, the five-person Marin County, Calif., board of supervisors unanimously approved the nation’s first low-carbon concrete code that applies to both public and private construction.
Authorities say incessant rainfall in northwest Italy caused a Nov. 24 landslide that took out a 65-ft section of the Madonna del Monte viaduct on the A6 highway, which connects Turin with the coastal city of Savona.
The U.K. Technology and Construction Court ordered WS Atkins, the U.K.-based infrastructure unit of SNC Lavalin Group to compensate the design-build contractor on the East Kent Access Road Phase 2 project for remedial work on the highway and legal costs for deficient work.
At the start of my son’s junior year in high school, I tagged along with him to meet with his school career counselor to discuss post-graduation plans.