The state of Michigan has approved a deal with Enbridge to build a new oil pipeline through the Straits of Mackinac.

Bridging North America, a partnership of Fluor, ACS Infrastructure Canada and Aecon Group, reached financial close late last month to design, build, finance, operate and maintain the 1.5-mile-long Gordie Howe International Bridge Project for the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority under a 36-year, $4.4-billion concessionaire agreement.

Road projects across Michigan that were stopped Sept. 4 due to a labor impasse resumed Sept. 28 as the two sides agreed to return to work with an agreement to negotiate a new contract this winter and work under the terms of a deal that expired in June until a new agreement can be reached.

The dust has settled from a methane explosion last month that brought down the roof of a sludge concentration building at the Calumet water reclamation plant on Chicago’s far south side, but there is still uncertainty as to what triggered the blast.

The 16-mile O'Hare Express would connect downtown Chicago and O'Hare airport.

U.S. Army Corp. of Engineers' researchers, leading a team that recently completed the 3D printing of 9.5-ft-tall reinforced concrete walls for a 32-ft x 16-ft deployable barracks, are setting their sights on a future project--3D printing of concrete roof beams--even before they have put the precast concrete lid on the printed walls.

Technology guru Elon Musk beat  three other companies for the right to negotiate with Chicago.

Fluor, ACS, AECOM are among the firms set to build the Gordie Howe cable-stay span, which will set a size record, even as political issues continue to swirl.

Chicago has its first CLT commercial building, but is still waiting on approval for high-rises.

With the price outlook ‘clear as mud,’ says one exec, long-term cost management strategies are elusive