The project will widen part of the channel from 530 ft to 700 ft and take dredged material to create an island bird habitat.

ODOT adds 300 projects worth nearly $2 billion to its eight-year plan.

Updates about construction professionals in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Texas.

Dodge offers data on projected 2021 construction starts in the Tulsa area.

Dodge offers data on projected 2021 construction starts in the Fort Worth area.

Updates on projects and companies from the Texas & Louisiana region.

Reports from key industry events across the Texas and Louisiana region.

Between COVID-19, the five named storms that hit the state in 2020 and the industry’s ever-present labor shortage, Louisiana contractors have spent the last year trying to get by with a maxed-out workforce and pandemic-related supply chain shortages.

Over the summer, BP marked the safe start-up of the Manuel project in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, the fourth of five major projects the energy company expects to deliver globally in 2021.