Incentives tied to craft worker compensation and apprenticeship on clean energy projects won't require developers to have project labor agreements, says the U.S. Treasury Dept.

Water systems, and their design and construction experts, boost efforts to eliminate contamination from ubiquitous 'forever’ chemicals, a key component of widely used firefighting foam runoff—as federal rules, technologies and costs catch up.

Germany-based RWE, which is developing offshore projects in New York and California, bid $5.6 million for its 102,000-acre site off Louisiana in the Aug. 29 Gulf of Mexico lease sale,

Australian engineer-contractor reports revenue is up.

Firms specializing in commercial and industrial projects report upbeat results; multifamily residential firms see a downturn. 

Top 250 ranked firms clinch a banner year of revenue growth but must wager experience against market risks as geopolitics and global priorities shift.

Suffolk Technologies, an affiliate of the Boston construction firm, recently closed on a $110-million inaugural fund.

Jacobs says planned spinoff continues of its Critical Mission Solutions business, which employs 16,000 of its 60,000 employees, but KBR said on Aug. 21 that a rumored purchase "does not align with ... its capital deployment and strategic priorities and thus is not being pursued.”

MBE programs are deeply entrenched, but conservative opponents now target disparity studies that have been their foundation.

Occidental Petroleum and Battelle lead Texas and Louisiana projects set for award of first-round federal funds, with 19 regional direct air capture hub teams—that include AEC firms—set to gain a total of $100M.