Coal-Ash Spill Cleanup Workers Reject Reputed $10M Exposure Settlement Mary B. Powers April 21, 2020 One Comment Group of 52 refuses project manager Jacobs' pay offer and seeks trial over illnesses claimed from remediating huge 2008 Tennessee accident.Read More
Georgia Power Cuts Vogtle Project Workforce Amid Increase in COVID-19 Cases Bruce Buckley April 16, 2020 No Comments Despite an estimated 20 % reduction in site workers, utility hopes to maintain the project's current schedule.Read More
Robins & Morton Converting Miami Beach Convention Center Into COVID-19 Field Hospital Bruce Buckley April 9, 2020 No Comments Contractor's $22.5-million contract with the Corps of Engineers calls for developing a 450-bed field hospital in less than two weeks.Read More
Contractor Leading Orlando's I-4 Ultimate Project Hit With $189K OSHA Fine Scott Judy April 6, 2020 2 Comments The penalty came roughly two weeks after FDOT approved $125 million in additional funding for the project.Read More
Everglades Restoration First Contract Awarded for $1.6B Everglades Project Thomas F. Armistead March 23, 2020 No Comments The contractor's bid came in well below the engineer's estimate of $38.8 million.Read More
Coronavirus and Construction Tourism’s Tumble Halts Airline’s $420M Florida Resort Project, for Now Is what happened in Florida a sign of more to come? Richard Korman March 23, 2020 One Comment Travel and tourism, which had provided a boost to Charlotte Harbor, Fla., is in trouble all over the world.Read More
Disasters Deadly Storms Largely Spare Nashville’s Booming Downtown Scott Judy March 3, 2020 No Comments The early-morning tornado caused widespread damage, including significant destruction to the offices of a landscape architect in East Nashville.Read More
Crews Place Final Concrete for Vogtle Unit 3 Containment Vessel March 3, 2020 No Comments In February, Georgia Power reported that workers at the Vogtle 3 and 4 project completed the final concrete placement inside the Unit 3 containment vessel, which houses the unit’s reactor.Read More
SEC Charges Utility Executives With Fraud Over Failed S.C. Nuclear Project The two SCANA leaders oversaw the canceled V.C. Summer plant Scott Judy March 2, 2020 No Comments The Securities and Exchange Commission's Feb. 27 complaint alleges that the utility committed a "historic securities fraud."Read More
North Carolina DOT Unlocks Lots of Budget-Stalled Project Awards Jim Parsons February 3, 2020 No Comments Design and construction set to resume on hundreds of jobs halted by storm emergency and other shortfalls.Read More