The market is strong and growing steadily, but contractors worry that the work may outstrip the industry’s capacity to deliver due to workforce shortages and materials supply delays in the wake of tariffs.
A solution for nuclear waste from power plants could finally be moving forward after the U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly May 10 to authorize continued licensing of Yucca Mountain as well as interim waste storage.
With the idea of converting the unfinished MOX facility into a manufacturing plant for nuclear weapons components, Energy Secretary Rick Perry on May 10 waived the requirement to use funds on construction and related support activities for the massively over-budget project at Savannah River Site in South Carolina.
Ever-bigger turbines and floating platforms are helping to accelerate the growth of offshore wind power development in Europe, where immediate prospects remain strong, especially in the United Kingdom.
Construction could begin as soon as next year on a 240-mile high-speed rail line between Houston and Dallas if permitting goes smoothly, according to officials.
Boston transportation officials on May 7 unveiled an estimated $3.5-billion plan for modern Green Line trains that could potentially double the capacity of the nation’s oldest and most heavily traveled light-rail system.
The opioid abuse epidemic, which has affected construction along with other work environments in the U.S., may have crested, according to recently obtained data.
Richard L. “Dick” Haury Sr., 85, a former senior vice president for airports at URS Corp. who helped develop major airport programs throughout the globe, died May 4 in Orlando, Fla.
A construction tech company that printed the walls of a 350-sq-ft “tiny house” in 48 hours in Austin, Texas, in March is now partnered with a nonprofit that aims to start printing walls for 800-sq-ft homes in El Salvador—in 24 hours for each—by the end of the year.
Nearly 70,000 elements of the Temperate glasshouse in London’s Kew Gardens were removed, restored and replaced, along with 15,000 panes of glass in a $41-million project to rehabilitate one of the world’s greatest Victorian-era horticultural ironwork buildings.
As advocates for spending more on highways, transit, water and other public-works projects gathered for the sixth annual Infrastructure Week’s more than 100 media events and panel discussions, it was clear that a wide-ranging bill won’t be coming this year.
Crane accidents are one of the enduring nightmares of construction work, so it is notable that as an industry where regulation often equals costs and entanglements, construction professionals have joined together to support the long-awaited publication date of a new federal safety rule that would make certifying crane operators mandatory.
Vertical integration, labor shortages and increasing interest from private equity firms are among key drivers of mergers and acquisitions, new survey says.