Fittingly on schedule, contractors are finishing up the $400-million reconstruction of Daytona International Speedway in time for this year’s Daytona 500, which kicks off the 2016 NASCAR season on Feb. 21.
As the 17th year of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) opens, both challenges and progress are evident in the restoration of the ecosystem of South Florida’s fabled River of Grass.
Miami has been maintaining its construction news-making trend, with a string of construction-related headlines including celebrities, lawsuits, legal settlements and even speculation from South Florida’s "Condo King" about a potential housing bubble.
Although Florida’s energy-efficiency program, known as PACE, has existed since 2010, recent developments could make it a more viable option to help fund certain commercial capital improvement projects.
In a huge deal that Wall Steet analysts said posed both rewards and risks for its key participants, Chicago Bridge & Iron on Oct. 27 said it would sell its nuclear construction business in the U.S. and China to Westinhouse Electric.
The North Carolina Dept. of Labor is proposing a fine of more than $150,000 for one of the contractors involved in a March 23 scaffolding collapse on the 11-story Charter Square building project in Raleigh that killed three workers.