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.
A National Labor Relations Board decision could affect relationships between some construction contractors and firms that provide temporary labor and potentially with subcontractors, too, an industry official says.
Nashville Ready Mix Inc., charged with vehicular homicide and reckless homicide after one of its trucks was involved in a fatal crash in 2013, has pled no contest to the reckless homicide charge and paid a $200,000 fine.
At its annual Build Business conference, the Society for Marketing Professional Services continued to grapple with the changing roles of marketers and business developers.
A Parsons Corp. unit has agreed to pay the federal government $3.8 million to settle charges that it knowingly mischarged the Dept. of Energy for employees’ relocation costs for work on a project at DOE’s Savannah River site in South Carolina, the Dept. of Justice says.
Leaders from three military branches highlighted their services’ efforts to move toward net-zero-energy and water projects at bases and facilities around the country at a recent executive forum held in Washington, D.C.
The Obama administration has announced a slew of initiatives to drive innovation, investment and development of renewable and energy-efficiency projects.
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has formally launched its Utility Engineering and Surveying Institute (UESI), the first national organization designed to provide a broad-based forum for the exchange of ideas and best practices among utility- and pipeline-infrastructure engineers and surveyors.