Check out the November 15, 2021 edition of ENR, featuring NASA's return to the moonwith the Artemis program, Top Owners Sourcebook, news and much more!
Preparations for the Artemis program, which will land the first woman and person of color on the moon, include upgrades to launch facilities and systems.
When Artemis 1 takes off next year, there will be 90 people in the room on launch day. Two-thirds of them will be Jacobs engineers overseeing the launch sequence software they created.
As NASA works on a mission to send the first woman and person of color to the moon, ENR Editor-in-Chief Janice Tuchman exchanged emails with Janet Petro, director of the Kennedy Space Center, to explore how diversity plays out in the agency itself.
With a new wave of federal highway work expected to come with the passage of the federal infrastructure bill, the bidding and oversight of these jobs could get complicated.
Procore has acquired LaborChart, the Overland Park, Kansas-based developer of workforce management software for specialty contractors and self-performing general contractors.
The utility has already spent $856 million on remediation and is moving on new cleanup projects, but court battle to stop it from passing costs to ratepayers will likely continue.
Appellate court is set to decide whether workers at abandoned VC Summer project in South Carolina are entitled to compensation for no notice of layoff.
Global engineer intends to boost its environmental and public sector niches with proposed acquisition of the Queensland, Australia-based consultant's Asia and North America practices.
Spain-based firms anticipate reaching commercial and financial close on contract for reconstituted P3 project completion in February, with full-scale construction set to begin soon after.
EPA proposal is set to regulate existing oil and natural gas sector sources as well as new and modified ones; also, new DOT final rules now cover 400K miles of unregulated gas 'gathering' lines, and Interior Dept. is set to extend scrutiny of flaring.
Government says OSHA enforcement is "unambiguous ... in addressing grave dangers to employees in the workplace," in rollout of COVID emergency temporary rule.
Project finance exec Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, is Virginia governor-elect, while New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy squeaks to re-election; state Senate president Stephen Sweeney, an ironworkers' VP, concedes defeat and four big cities reject spending.
Interior Dept. announced proposed leases in U.S. waters off of North Carolina, Louisiana and Texas; environmental review of 2-GW project south of Martha's Vineyard begins.
Four months after the tragic collapse of a wing of the 12-story Champlain Towers South residential condominium in Surfside, Fla., the Miami-Dade police gave private forensic investigators access to the site, but for measurements only.
AECOM spinoff Amentum is part of BWXT-Fluor group awarded DOE Savannah River Site contract in South Carolina, and teams with Jacobs, Honeywell to manage $8.3B of work at the Oak Ridge, Tenn., complex.
As the world gradually reopens to more travel, ENR editors and writers are venturing out to see projects and attend industry events. This brings back the richness of in-person points of contact among the many ways we engage with our audience.
When zero hour arrived in Washington, D.C., for the infrastructure and social spending packages that were once firmly tied together and now are only sort of tied together, a House vote was held on the infrastructure measure, and 13 Republicans voted for it. They now deserve support against withering criticism from within the GOP and from the Murdoch media empire’s Wall Street Journal and Fox News.
T he International Energy Agency projects that electric vehicles will account for more than 15% of U.S. car sales by 2030, and the number of publicly-available EV chargers will rise that year to more than 800,000, from 98,981 in 2020.
Nacero Inc. has awarded to contractor Bechtel a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for a natural gas-to-gasoline manufacturing facility in Penwell, Texas.
One year into phase 2 of its $4.1-billion, multifaceted makeover, Salt Lake City International Airport recently marked the topping out of Concourse A-East.
Citing continued construction challenges and the need for additional testing time, Georgia Power has pushed back by three months its timeline for the Vogtle units 3 and 4 nuclear powerplant expansion, the first new plant construction in years.
Hudson Pacific Properties and Blackstone unveiled plans to develop the first large-scale purpose-built studio development in Los Angeles in more than two decades.
With another year of the coronavirus pandemic nearing its end, owners have mostly moved past reactionary plans for completing stalled projects and are now actively planning new ones. Looking ahead, how will fundamental changes to market sectors lead owners to potentially reconfigure business models?