Industrial and manufacturing US Steel's Mon Valley Investment Revives Western Pennsylvania $1-billion plant upgrade promises reversal of fortune for mill towns Jonathan Barnes December 2, 2019 3 Comments Upgrades include endless casting and rolling facility at Edgar Thomson plant and co-generation plant at Clairton plant.Read More
Contested Hawaii Telescope Could Migrate to Canary Islands November 27, 2019 No Comments A controversial telescope originally planned for the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii has been offered a new home in Spain.Read More
Beta Version of Embodied Carbon Calculator Premieres Nadine M. Post Joann Gonchar November 27, 2019 No Comments The free, open-source Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator is the first digital tool of its kind in North AmericaRead More
Infrastructure Finance States' Capital Spending Climbs 8% in Fiscal 2019 Tom Ichniowski November 21, 2019 No Comments State budget officers' group shows strong growth in transportation capital expenditures.Read More
Council on Tall Buildings' Experts Call for More-Sustainable High-Rises Nadine M. Post November 8, 2019 No Comments Tall-buildings experts, who are past chairs of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, are calling for more CTBUH research and development, better tools and greater building team collaboration to make high-rises more sustainable.Read More
Top Owners Sourcebook: Foxconn Plans Progress Pam Radtke Russell November 6, 2019 No Comments Mortenson Named as Construction Manager for ProjectsRead More
Climate Activists Maneuver To Reduce Embodied Carbon in Buildings Nadine M. Post November 6, 2019 4 Comments Climate activists engage in complicated maneuvers to reduce embodied carbon in buildingsRead More
Owner May Ramp Up Construction of Jeddah Tower, Planned to Be Over 1 km November 6, 2019 No Comments Jeddah Economic Co., owner of the proposed world’s tallest building, plans to restart the tower’s construction in a few months.Read More
Fire Safety Grenfell Fire Probe Faults Cladding as Replacement Projects Lag UK Prime Minister isn't satisfied with pace at which hazardous panels are removed Peter Reina November 1, 2019 One Comment A new report on the 2017 fatal London tower disaster details how fire spread.Read More
Research Facility Geneva Physicists Look to Future, But Their Tunnels Are Being Built Now CERN's Large Hadron Collider is in shutdown mode while a billion-dollar retrofit takes place Michael Dumiak October 25, 2019 No Comments In order to get new instruments and power train into the collider loop, engineers are constructing two new shafts, 10 m in diameter and 60 m deep.Read More