Cris Liban, chief sustainability officer at the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority, is advocating for social and economic equity through infrastructure projects.
Energy majors, whose CEOs met with President Trump April 3 over falling prices, are among 300 firms in hard-hit sectors hit with ratings cuts, S&P Global Ratings said in an April 8 webinar.
With the federal Families First Coronavirus Response Act in effect on April 1, design and construction firms are grappling with new provisions for emergency paid sick leave and paid family medical leave.
Industry brokers say the virus has not cancelled transactions but has put the brakes on speed of completion, with valuation uncertainties; U.S. payroll loan could also complicate sales.
Firms large and small in New York and New Jersey, and even individuals, produce plastic face shields to help augment dwindling supplies of personal protective equipment for health care workers.
The only group in the U.S. and Canada that collects and disseminates lessons from failures, errors, mishaps and safety issues is calling for reports on structural and jobsite hazards arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Preparing multiple potential designs around narrow requirements is seen as some of the most tedious work in design and engineering. But some of that effort can now be automated with the new generative design scripting built into Autodesk Revit 2021.
Back in January, when Pam Radtke Russell, ENR’s deputy editor for national news, started reporting the cover story on this year’s Award of Excellence winner Cris Liban, she tried to keep up with his hectic cross-country schedule.
Early April talk about including infrastructure provisions in recovery bills related to the coronavirus pandemic has been overtaken by other priorities, such as more aid for small businesses.
The Extendo 1056X telehandler has a four-section boom with a lift capacity of 10,000 lb, a 56-ft maximum lift height and a maximum forward reach of 40 ft.
The U.S. General Services Administration is planning to renovate between 160,000 sq ft and 200,00 sq ft on the first and second floors of the Fort Benjamin Harrison Bean Center, a 1.6-million-sq-ft federal office building in Lawrence.