After California’s new governor, Gavin Newsom (D), restated the priorities of his state's high-speed rail project, realists looking for good news about the project let loose with an affirming “Amen.” 

Updates about construction professionals in California and Hawaii

Clark Manus helped lead the way in performance-based design on structural systems.

Bill Hansmire embraces the challenges and risks of underground construction.

Dodge offers data on projected 2019 construction starts in the Los Angeles area.

Major electric grid work is ahead in PG&E’s territory, whether or not the California electric and gas utility files for bankruptcy.

Trash heaps. Ocean trips. Rocks for jocks. Nurture, nature—and even football—informed Joel Cesare’s pursuit of planetary sustainability.

Replacing flood-ravaged spillways at Oroville Dam in just 18 months over two brief construction seasons required the focus and tenacity of many.

The steel fabricator for the third-floor tapered, built-up plate girders at the troubled Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco is calling for a girder-hanger connection design review as part of the probe into the causes of brittle fractures in bottom flanges of twin 80-ft-long members that bridge Fremont Street.

San Francisco’s review of pile scheme to shore 645-ft-tall Millennium Tower will take months