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Politics

Industry Weighs in With Cash in U.S. Campaigns

Construction unions, trade groups and companies focus more attention on congressional races

Pam Hunter McFarland

Debra K. Rubin

October 19, 2016

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In an election in which the two presidential candidates are presenting starkly different views about governing approaches, many construction groups are keeping low profiles in the top contest, focusing attention—and resources—on congressional races.

Pulse Project News for the Week of Oct. 24, 2017

October 19, 2016

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Project News from Dodge Data & Analytics

Seattle Convention Center Project Gets New Contractor, Set for 2017 Start

Tim Newcomb

October 19, 2016

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The $1.6-billion Washington State Convention Center expansion project in downtown Seattle has a new contractor and a clear path toward the start of construction in 2017, while development on the Pacific Northwest’s largest hotel continues next door.

Tennessee DOT Reviewing Troublesome I-440 Rehab

Candy McCampbell

October 19, 2016

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Interstate 440, a seven-mile stretch of highway in Nashville that opened in 1987, underwent a $9-million rehabilitation in 2009.

Oil Spills

Accidental Louisiana Pipeline Rupture Interrupts Shore Restoration Job

Subcontractor Reportedly Cut Pipeline While On Job Financed by BP Settlement

Scott Van Voorhis

October 19, 2016

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The prime contractor has resumed work following clean up.

Risk Management

Judge: Designer’s One-Sentence Claim Notice Allows Insurer to Deny Coverage

Ruling Involved Addition to a Famous University of Pittsburgh Building

Scott Van Voorhis

October 17, 2016

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Insurer Lexington rejected Ballinger's last-day claim notification that lacked required information.

Natural Disasters

Two North Carolina Construction Barges Drift Far During Hurricane Matthew

Despite Measures to Secure the Site Big Vessels Get Away

Tom Sawyer

Jim Parsons

October 13, 2016

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Viewpoint: US Infrastructure Needs Disruption

Norman F. Anderson

October 12, 2016

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Infra guru Norm Anderson says, despite good intentions, the presidential candidates' investment plans have a 'fighting the last war' sense to them.

Lead Poisoning

Crisis in Flint Underscores a National Drinking Water Quality Problem

Awareness grows of trouble in other drinking-water systems across the U.S.

Pam Hunter McFarland

Mike Anderson

October 12, 2016

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For Anthony Jones, 46, a Gulf War veteran and apprentice craftworker based in Flint, the work that he does—pulling out lead service lines to homes—is personal.

Renzi Urges Salini Impregilo To Complete Messina Span

Peter Reina

October 12, 2016

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Milan-based contractor Salini Impregilo S.p.A. has accepted an informal challenge by Italy’s prime minister, Matteo Renzi, to complete a long stalled contract to build a record-breaking suspension bridge over the Messina Strait, between the mainland and Sicily.