A joint venture between Fluor and Yokohama, Japan-based JGC was selected in April as the engineering, procurement and construction contractor for LNG Canada’s proposed liquefied natural gas export facility in Kitimat, British Columbia.
The ongoing modernization program at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) continues with a $1.95-billion automated people-mover system, being developed under a public-private design-build-finance-operate-maintain partnership by LAX Integrated Express Solutions.
Massachusetts’ high court has ordered a state superior court to reassess facts in a pay dispute on an overbudget and late-running $90-million fiber-optic project for a state agency.
In 2007, reports started filling newspapers and websites about the poor treatment of wounded veterans in aging federal hospitals, including those being built and run by the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs.
Granite Construction Inc. said on June 14 that it completed its acquisition of global water management firm Layne Christensen Co., valued at about $536 million, including net debt assumption.