As many of us were planning for the New Year ahead, a family in Franconia Township, Pa., was mourning the recent death of 53-year-old David Smith, who was killed when a young driver ran into Smith and another worker while they were painting stripes on a local road.
The Tennessee Valley Authority began increasing power output at the first of three units at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant in north Alabama to accommodate customer requests for more clean energy, but observers have mixed views on the $475-
million effort.
The investigation of the collapse of Carillion plc has in a few weeks produced hundreds of pages of testimony and documents and withering verbal criticism by members of Parliament (MPs) directed at the company’s executives, accountants and pension regulators.
As Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement Project heads toward a planned opening next year, Hitachi, the manufacturer of the 57.5-ft-dia tunnel-boring machine Bertha, has clarified its defense claims in the lawsuit and even shared its feelings about a snub it perceived at the breakthrough ceremony marking the progress of the work.