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On June 22, while unveiling the world’s first ropeless and sideways-travel elevator system at its 246-m-tall test tower in Rottweil, Germany, elevator maker thyssenkrupp announced that OVG Real Estate will be the first to install the system.

Political efforts in Washington, D.C., to alter trade and tax policies, coupled with improving global economic conditions and continuing demographic trends, could prompt manufacturers to increase investment in U.S. facilities.

Crews are upgrading and building onto a 1950s-era pier without disturbing three buoyant caissons supported by timber piles.

John M. Hanson, former Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates Inc. president, helped guide it to be an industry-leading forensics engineer.

A May 30 settlement in a convoluted legal dispute over an array of project issues on a much-delayed and overbudget bus-rail hub in a Washington, D.C. suburb, has brought parties less than they hoped for.