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May 26, 2025

Check out the May 26, 2025 edition of ENR, featuring ENR's Top 400 Contractors, Central Texas agencies Form Gian Tech Collaborative, news and more!

Steelworker John Arellano

Companies

ENR's Top 400 Contractors Proceed With Caution Amid Intensifying Market Challenges

Emell Adolphus

Emell D. Adolphus

Jonathan Keller

Jonathan Keller

May 21, 2025

Confusion over the Trump administration’s “America First” agenda and rising construction costs drive company execs to shift resources toward innovative solutions.

Sadia Janjua and Dimitra Karachaliou present at ENR FutureTech

Construction Technology

AI, Real-World Robotics Applications Take Center Stage at ENR FutureTech

Nearly 600 attendees attended construction technology conference in San Francisco

Jeff Yoders

May 9, 2025

Attendees heard optimistic visions of AEC practitioners soon having more connected workflows and more reliable data pipelines, proactive solutions for jobsite uncertainties and tools to replace meetings and work phases.

Environment

States' Suit Targets Trump 'Energy Emergency' Order That Fast Tracks Projects

James Leggate

Corinne Grinapol

Corinne Grinapol

May 12, 2025

The suit by Democratic attorneys general, which also names the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, as defendants, is the latest in a series of legal battles over energy and climate change.

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Renewable Energy

Google Secures Approval for Geothermal to Power Data Centers

Meta also eyes fracking for geothermal efforts

Johanna Knapschaefer

Johanna Knapschaefer

May 14, 2025

Google agreement with Nevada regulators to provide geothermal power for data centers is the latest step in its quest for a lower-carbon supply in the next five years.

Security

House Bill Has $46.5B in New Border Wall Project Construction

More funding for CPB, other border agencies earmarked, too, but no purchase of Texas state border wall yet

Jeff Yoders

May 12, 2025

The money is expected to fund wall construction across the Southwest border for the next three years under indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract vehicles that could be renewed in 2028.

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Higher Education

Findorff Selected for $420M Engineering Center at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Annemarie Mannion

Annemarie Mannion

May 14, 2025

A groundbreaking was held in April for the 395,000-sq-ft center, which is expected to enable the university to increase admission of engineering students by 1,000 a year.

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Energy

Invenergy Picks Quanta Services, Kiewit for $7B Midwest Transmission Line Project Work

James Leggate

May 7, 2025

Firms' newly awarded contracts for work on Grain Belt Express high-voltage line's 530-mile first phase total nearly $1.7 billion.

Safety

Workers Charge Negligence In 2022 Kansas City-Area Bridge Collapse

Workers were buried in wet concrete and one was killed when a bridge collapsed near Kansas City in 2022, lawsuits allege

Annemarie Mannion

Annemarie Mannion

May 6, 2025

Lawsuits allege engineers were negligent in their design of temporary structural supports which led to the bridge's collapse in Clay County, Mo. The falsework contractor, which was fined by OSHA, was not named in the lawsuits.

Workforce

Parsons Corp. Quietly Cut Its Award-Winning DEI Program

Federal contractor quickly complied with Trump administration policy, which is being challenged in courts

May 6, 2025

The federal contractor purged website mentions of the program.

Colorado Condo Construction Defect Bill Signed Into Law

After years of failed attempts, legislation aiming to reduce risk to contractors becomes offical

Jennifer Seward

Jennifer Seward

May 15, 2025

New law provides incentives for contractors in an effort to jumpstart construction of much-needed multifamily housing.

Transportation

DFW Completes Another 'Megastructure' Module Move for $3B Terminal C

May 7, 2025

Up to 75% of the modules' MEP and fire protection systems were installed before they were transported nearly a mile to be installed.

Workers in the Delaware Aqueduct Bypass

NYC DEP Moves to Restart Paused $2B Leaking Aqueduct Fix

The city is seeking a new contract to fix leaks in the Delaware Aqueduct

May 9, 2025

The project aims to make the final connection of a new bypass tunnel under the Hudson River.

Environment

3M Agrees to Pay NJ up to $450M to Settle PFAS Damage Claims

May 15, 2025

Chemicals maker's deal with New Jersey to fix impacts from former large Dupont plant avoids trial and enables remediation and drinking water treatment projects to progress,

Industry Economists Cautiously Optimistic on US-China Trade Deal

Recently announced 90-day deal takes some pressure off, but much still isunresolved

Alisa Zevin

May 12, 2025

Economists remain wary as talks for a more permanent deal continue.

Fluor Cites Dow Delay of $8.9B Canada Low-Carbon Ethylene Project

Overall Q1 financial performance for several big E&C firms remained healthy

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Debra K. Rubin

May 9, 2025

But tariffs don't yet impact four large engineering and contracting companies, they report.

Infrastructure

$3.7B Mobile Bridge Project Moves Forward After Contractor Shakeup

May 9, 2025

Officials are hoping for a 2025 groundbreaking while waiting on the remaining funding.

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Transportation

Saudi Arabia Selects Bechtel, Parsons for Mega-Airport Project

C.J. Schexnayder

C.J. Schexnayder

May 14, 2025

The King Salman International Airport is an estimated $7.2-billion effort to expand the existing Riyadh facility into the largest airport in the world.

Government

House Republicans Advance 'One Big Beautiful Bill' With Narrow Support

James Leggate

May 19, 2025

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is aiming to get the spending and tax package through the House by Memorial Day.

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Sports Venues

$800M Renovation and Expansion Underway at World's Largest Tennis Stadium

Major overhaul set for NYC's Arthur Ashe Stadium, Billie Jean King National Tennis Center

Tim Newcomb

May 19, 2025

A major overhaul and expansion of Arthur Ashe Stadium and the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center will be completed in time for the 2027 U.S. Open in Queens, New York.

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Nuclear Energy

WSP, Kiewit, Hatch to Build Canada's $3.2B Spent Fuel Repository

May 21, 2025

Country's first storage site for used nuclear fuel—and the world's second—will be built up to 2,600 ft below ground in Ontario, with design to complete by 2028 and construction to begin by 2033.

Gaming

Construction Restarts on $1.7B Bally's Casino in Chicago

Work paused due to use of unauthorized vendor with alleged links to organized crime

Annemarie Mannion

Annemarie Mannion

May 16, 2025

Work paused due to use of an unauthorized vendor with alleged links previously to organized crime

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Clean Energy

Trump Reverses Shutdown of $5B NY Empire Wind Construction

Debra K. Rubin

May 20, 2025

Was the turnaround a deal in exchange for resurrecting regional gas pipeline projects the state fought?

Rendering of I-35 in Texas

Tech Teams Aim to Keep Austin Moving

Seven “Silicon Hills” agencies prepare for $20 billion in construction with a technically and philosophically unified platform

Aileen Cho

May 21, 2025

With 35 major infrastructure projects scheduled over the next 10 years in the region, I-35 will be the backbone of a multi-agency collaboration through a bidirectional construction data platform.

2022 New York City scaffold collapse

Construction Accidents: What It Takes to Tell the Full Story

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May 22, 2025

The recent triple fatality at a Bechtel LNG construction project in Port Arthur, Texas, prompted heartfelt comments from firm President and Chief Operating Officer Craig Albert.

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History

From the Archives: October 22, 1925 | Concrete Mixing Plant

Scott Lewis

May 22, 2025

This 1925 cover image depicts a concrete mixing plant—one of three—for a vital project in downtown Chicago, in which South Water Street was transformed into Wacker Drive, a major multilevel street running along the Chicago River in the Loop.

effort to dam the Colorado River

From the Archives

Building the Hoover Dam Drove Engineers to New Heights

Scott Lewis

May 22, 2025

The Colorado River was a fault line of near-tectonic political forces by the 1920s, as the seven states within its basin continued to grow in population.

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Construction Technology

OpenSpace Creates Construction Reality Capture Platform With OpenSpace Air

New cloud platform will be a repository for construction reality capture, whether image and video from 360-degree cameras, drones and scans

Jeff Yoders

May 15, 2025

OpenSpace Air is a platform for collection and analysis of reality capture data from drones, scans, site surveys and 360° images.

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Construction Technology

EarthCam Boosts AI, Collects Data in User Dashboards

Jeff Yoders

May 22, 2025

In April, EarthCam released Control Center 9, the latest version of its suite of construction site camera and management software.

Gov. Maura Healy of Massachusetts

Opinion

How to Adjust Your DEI Plan

Kenneth Rubinstein

May 21, 2025

A commentary by attorney Kenneth Rubinstein on why firms should pivot from emphasizing outcomes to prioritizing engagement as the national debate changes about diversity, equity and inclusion in construction.

ENR Construction Economics

Construction Economics for May 26, 2025

May 22, 2025

ENR’s 20-city average cost indexes, wages and materials prices. Historical data and details for ENR’s 20 cities can be found at ENR.com/economics

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