Demand for water tunnels is exploding as more cities are finding that deep infrastructure is the best way to resolve flooding, pollution and water storage without disrupting dense population centers.
As the cost comes down for boring water tunnels without major disruption to cities, more and more of these long-lived, cost-effective projects are on the horizon for floodwater storage and pollution prevention
President Trump’s infrastructure investment proposal has moved to the next step—congressional scrutiny—and faces what looks like a steep uphill path to enactment.
When President Trump said on March 1 that he would impose tariffs of 25% on foreign steel and 10% on aluminum, it immediately put construction estimators and executives, and the suppliers they rely on, into a holding pattern.
Last year was a good year for the Associated General Contractors of America. AGC members got a boost from a business-friendly Trump administration that began rolling back regulations like the blacklisting rule and push through a tax-cut package that lowers the pass-through rate.
Based on recent fire test results, mass timber groups have adjusted product certification standards to require the use of cross-laminated timber with structural adhesives tested to demonstrate better fire performance.
Plant Vogtle’s new nuclear units may become operational considerably ahead of the schedule that Georgia Power announced last fall when Bechtel officially took over the beleaguered project.
The Nanticoke coal plant, once the largest in the world, stopped burning coal in 2013, but its 655-ft-tall twin chimneys stood like beacons on the north shore of Lake Erie in Canada’s Ontario province—until the end of February.
With a new leader, a $4.5-billion capital program and now a green light to pursue a major rail support facility, the Port of Long Beach is rebounding from a major tenant’s bankruptcy and looking to fulfill a zero-emissions goal.
A new app for smartphones and tablets running iOS 11 translates handwritten instructions into mathematical operations and then swiftly performs them, recognizing many calculation symbols.
Federal Bureau of Investigation and General Services Administration officials faced sharp questioning on Capitol Hill as they defended a Trump administration proposal to replace the FBI’s aging downtown Washington, D.C., headquarters with a new building at the same spot.
With tunneling on a new one-mile tube for the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel set to begin next year, project officials are readying plans for handling an estimated 500,000 cu yd of potentially tainted spoil to be produced by a 42-ft-dia tunnel-boring machine, currently under construction in Germany.
Since the departure of the Sonics in 2008, the city has been working to bring back the National Basketball Association and attract a National Hockey League expansion team.
Industry executives may have hoped the recently passed tax law and President Trump’s promises to fix the nation’s crumbling infrastructure would lead to new superhighways paved with gold.