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2021 Top 500 Sourcebook: Backup Power for Texas

Battery storage units will provide needed grid reliability

June 30, 2021

Burns & McDonnell leads team bringing three large-scale battery storage systems to West Texas to reduce the likelihood of rolling blackouts.

2021 Top 500 Sourcebook: Natural Gas to Gasoline

Plant will halve the carbon footprint of gasoline

Pam Radtke Russell

June 30, 2021

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Bechtel is designing a $6.5-billion plant to turn natural gas into gasoline in Penwell, Texas, for Nacero Inc. The energy firm says the plant would be the nation’s first such facility.

Construction Economics for July 12, 2021

June 30, 2021

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ENR’s 20-city average cost indexes, wages and materials prices. Historical data and details for ENR’s 20 cities can be found at ENR.com/economics

Construction Economics for July 5, 2021

June 30, 2021

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ENR’s 20-city average cost indexes, wages and materials prices. Historical data and details for ENR’s 20 cities can be found at ENR.com/economics

2021 Top 500 Sourcebook: Making Way for Freight

Southern Calif. interstate expansion to ease congestion

Jim Parsons

June 30, 2021

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A six-mile segment of Interstate 15 in San Bernardino County, Calif., will be augmented with tolled express lanes to provide much-needed capacity for the corridor's growing volume of freight traffic.

2021 Top 500 Sourcebook: Comprehensive Care

HOK designs 510,000-sq-ft, 12-story cancer center

Bruce Buckley

June 30, 2021

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HOK designs a $750-million cancer center in New Jersey with 510,000 sq ft of treatment and research space on 12 stories

US Supreme Court Backs $1B Pipeline, 5-4, in State Eminent Domain Battle

Mary B. Powers

Debra K. Rubin

June 29, 2021

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PennEast natural gas line from Pennsylvania to New Jersey has federal power to seize NJ-owned land, said justices, despite Justice Amy Coney Barrett-led dissent; project still lacks key approvals but industry welcomes ruling

Airlines’ Approval Clears New Pittsburgh Terminal for Takeoff

Jim Parsons

June 28, 2021

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Originally scheduled to begin construction in April 2020, the terminal was temporarily grounded along with the rest of the U.S. commercial aviation industry by the coronavirus pandemic.