Climate-focused groups warn that a second Donald Trump presidential term could set back by decades national targets to significantly cut carbon emissions.
Infrastructure agency chiefs need new ways to keep coastal and urban structures, critical bridge crossings and even public sector diversity programs hardened against growing climate change and human-caused risks, they told an ENR conference in Manhattan on Sept. 16.
Shimmick Construction Co. is general contractor under a $373.8-million design-bid-build contract for San Diego's North City Pure Water Facility and Pump Station—a 30-million-gallon-per-day plant that is part of the Pure Water San Diego Program.
Class action lawsuit by is also set to add the International Boundary and Water Commission, owner of the South Bay wastewater treatment plant, as a defendant.
Gov. Kathy Hochul acknowledged likely state power shortfall with clean energy project delays and growing needs, but officials unveiled plan for smaller reactors at Sept. 5 energy summit—three years after close of controversial Indian Point facility.
Massachusetts will take all but 200 MW of the 2.87-GW procurement, with the rest to Rhode Island, but bidders were wary, submitting for well under the 6.8-GW offered by the two states—and Connecticut failed to seek any capacity.
Cutting carbon and hardening infrastructure both requires a revolution in how civil engineering is practiced, says veteran engineer and sustainability guru Bill Wallace.