The project, originally expected to complete this year, is now scheduled to finish in 2027 at an estimated cost of $2.77 billion.

Japan's plan to discharge treated wastewater from the stricken plant into the sea would have "negligible" health and environmental impacts, says International Atomic Energy Agency.

Terms were not disclosed of the civil settlement with plaintiffs, but it "will allow LAN to put this matter behind them and focus on their future," an attorney says.

Canada-based SNC Lavalin Group, the parent of Atkins, said the sale when completed will further speed the corporate transition to engineering and project management.

Proposed federal revisions have raised concerns among construction groups that say changes could lead to expensive delays on projects.

A two-year pause of work will have uncertain impacts on the supply chain, overall program costs and local communities, according to a new report.

While construction's jobless rate rose to 3.6% in June, economists noted that the industry had 396,000 job openings as of the end of May.

Collaboration will propel repairs to the Guajataca Dam, damaged by Hurricane Maria in 2017, which supplies drinking water to about 300,000 rssidents..

Energy efficiency work created more than half of the overall sector's new construction jobs, the agency says in new report.