On Sept. 9, 2010, a 30-in.-dia, Pacific Gas & Electric-owned natural-gas pipeline exploded (above), killing eight people in a residential neighborhood of San Bruno, Calif.
Neel-Schaffer (No. 187) is the lead designer on the Mississippi Gulf Coast’s $570-million Port of Gulfport Restoration project (above), which will accommodate larger ships that will be coming through the expanded Panama Canal.
Congress is making headway on reauthorizing Federal Aviation Administration programs: The Senate approved a measure that hikes airport construction grants a solid 12% but only for one year.
Judging from figures in spending bills making their way through Congress, the Army Corps of Engineers civil-works program is in line for a modest fiscal year 2017 funding increase that will nudge the total to a new high.