In what Calgary, Alberta-based Veresen calls an “extremely surprising” move, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission denied the applications for its Coos Bay, Ore., Jordan Cove LNG offshore facility and Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline, stating that “the record does not support a finding that the public benefits of the [pipeline] outweigh the adverse effects on landowners.”
To university engineers, the Stanford Energy System Innovations (SESI) project represents nothing less than a revolution in the way campuses in the U.S. should be heated and cooled.
Located on the largest industrial brownfield site in the U.S., the Hoover Mason Trestle elevated walkway offers visitors unique views and access to one of the last remaining open-hearth blast furnaces in the country.
The best light show in the U.S. isn’t in Las Vegas or Times Square; it’s about 67 miles east of the intersection of Broadway and 42nd Street in the Long Island hamlet of Upton, N.Y., at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Critics contend that the Dept. of Energy’s loan-guarantee and Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) programs are a burden on taxpayers, but current and former DOE officials disagree, saying the programs will enable the U.S. to retain its leadership in an increasingly competitive global energy marketplace.
Faced with warnings of an imminent, catastrophic collapse of the earthfill structure causing widespread devastation, the Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources on March 2 signed up Italy’s Trevi Group to stem leaks under the dam and repair a bottom outlet floodgate.
Search efforts at the 10-story building in England that suddenly fell on Feb. 23, trapping three workers, are hampered by a "very unstable structure," says one fire official.
An array of factors, ranging from difficult terrain to political unrest, challenge contractors trying to build in the Himalayas and other difficult-to-reach locations.
An airship in development for carrying construction cargo and personnel may soon complement the precision heavy-lift capability of a helicopter, opening a new way to construction in remote parts of the world.
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