After high-level talks with the U.S., China has agreed to flesh out its earlier pledge to limit greenhouse-gas emissions through a set of new programs and policies.
The Obama administration is expanding its efforts to speed up federal regulatory reviews for major infrastructure projects, with modest changes to existing “streamlining” tools.
The U.S. Dept. of Energy has issued its first definition of what it means to be a zero-energy building, and buildings-related organizations say that it should provide consistency and clarity for the construction industry.
When Fluor Intercontinental, a unit of the big engineering and construction services company, won a $74.4-million contract in early 2005 to build a new U.S. embassy compound in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, it ran into trouble with soil conditions that differed from what the firm believed would be present.
Asia is one of the largest global construction markets, but projects there are increasingly shifting from greenfield to brownfield developments, bringing new risks and complexities to international firms.
Several water groups are hoping a newly released document will give regulatory agencies and utilities the information and guidance they need to safely implement projects that convert wastewater into municipal drinking water through direct potable reuse (DPR).
With only a few scheduled working days left this month, Congress must hustle to act on legislation to fund the government past Sept. 30, when the 2015 fiscal year ends.
House Republicans are unhappy with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s role in the Aug. 5 spill of 3 million gallons of mine wastewater into Colorado’s Animas River.
A federal judge has blocked—but only in 13 states—a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-Army Corps of Engineers rule determining when contractors need federal permits to build in and near wetlands and other bodies of water.
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