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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.

The VA is also launching a study of what do do about more than 1,000 vacant or underused facilities.

California, Oregon and Washington are among the states moving forward with regulations and road maps for the construction and operation of building- and district-scale graywater capture and treatment systems for non-potable-water use, such as toilet flushing and irrigation.