New Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge went through a rigorous process of aesthetic considerations that resulted in three sets of arches above deck and unique contextual challenges.
A Canadian start-up company is moving toward commercial development of a process to capture carbon dioxide from the air and turn it into a synthetic transportation fuel.
Developers of a grid-connected tidal energy project in a remote region of southwestern Alaska have received a $2.3-million award from the Dept. of Energy to continue work on a cross-flow river current turbine system.
Getting construction workers to put on yet another piece of wearable technology can be an uphill battle, so it’s often better to improve something they already use.
Bluebeam Inc., creator of a widely-used, PDF-based construction document synchronization and collaboration system founded in 2003, has made its first technology acquisition, buying Project Atlas, a bootstrapping startup that stitches project data into a map-like, location-based data navigation system.
In 2007, reports started filling newspapers and websites about the poor treatment of wounded veterans in aging federal hospitals, including those being built and run by the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. was increasing vegetation and fire safety standards even before a Cal Fire report released this month concluded that the company’s electric power lines caused the 12 Northern California fires that burned some 245,000 acres in October.
Granite Construction Inc. said on June 14 that it completed its acquisition of global water management firm Layne Christensen Co., valued at about $536 million, including net debt assumption.
The Army Corps of Engineers has released a detailed list of how it will divide $1.8 billion in fiscal-year 2018 civil-works funding among various projects.
Some key federal water accounts got sizable spending hikes in 2018, thanks to shares of a Capitol Hill budget deal’s $10-billion overall infrastructure bonus.
Wind and solar energy will supply almost 50% of the world’s electric power generation by 2050, Bloomberg New Energy Finance forecasts in its annual long-term analysis of the global electricity system released June 19.
Peter Ruane, American Road & Transportation Builders Association president and CEO, will retire in October after 30 years heading the organization, ARTBA said on June 19.
Massachusetts’ high court has ordered a state superior court to reassess facts in a pay dispute on an overbudget and late-running $90-million fiber-optic project for a state agency.
A bill to help communities identify buildings at risk of failure in an earthquake is headed to the California Senate for a final vote; the Assembly approved it on May 31.
The ongoing modernization program at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) continues with a $1.95-billion automated people-mover system, being developed under a public-private design-build-finance-operate-maintain partnership by LAX Integrated Express Solutions.
A joint venture between Fluor and Yokohama, Japan-based JGC was selected in April as the engineering, procurement and construction contractor for LNG Canada’s proposed liquefied natural gas export facility in Kitimat, British Columbia.
In June, Nuclear Development LLC tapped SNC-Lavalin to complete work on at least one nuclear unit at the partially completed Bellefonte nuclear plant in Alabama.
The Orange County Sanitation District has hired Black & Veatch to design the overhaul and upgrade of Wastewater Plant No. 2 in Huntington Beach, Calif.
The 1.1-million-sq-ft First Solar Modular Manufacturing Plant planned for Lake Township, Ohio, will be the single largest thin-film solar module manufacturing facility in the U.S. when it’s completed in late 2019.