NIST Develops Climate Resilience Tools for Communities Pam McFarland November 23, 2022 No Comments The National Institute of Standards and Technology effort is developing resources to help communities make decisions about broader resilience outcomes they want, looking at entire systems rather than individual structures.Read More
Buildings Delayed Tower Takes Shape Over Boston's South Station The 680-ft-tall structure will be one of the city's tallest buildings Scott Van Voorhis November 23, 2022 No Comments At 680 ft, the $1.5B residential and office structure will be one of the city's tallest buildingsRead More
Bentley Launches Digital Twin Tools, Infrastructure Cloud Jeff Rubenstone November 23, 2022 No Comments Getting the digital twin workflow into the typical design, construction, operations cycle has been a thorny problem for digital twin advocates.Read More
Construction Economics for November 28, 2022 November 23, 2022 No Comments 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/economicsRead More
Power Biden Administration Opens $13B Funding for Transmission Upgrades Mary B. Powers November 22, 2022 No Comments The funds will support long-distance, high voltage transmission and distribution line modernization and buildout, government says.Read More
Airports FAA Clears $7.1B Chicago O'Hare Terminal Revamp to Begin James Leggate November 22, 2022 No Comments Work on two new satellite concourses is planned to begin in spring of 2023, with demolition and replacement of an existing terminal to follow.Read More
Risk Management: Count All The Costs Commentary on the International Risk Management Institute construction conference Richard Korman November 22, 2022 No Comments A commentary on the International Risk Management Institute's November construction conference.Read More
Electric Vehicles Poised To Transform Economy, Says US DOT Greg Aragon November 22, 2022 One Comment Officials tout bipartisan nature of infrastructure investments at annual transportation conference.Read More
Technology Autodesk Cloud Service Outage Leaves Users Idled for a Day All Autodesk cloud services were down Nov. 17, which stopped design work on some projects Jeff Yoders November 21, 2022 No Comments Tech firm's cloud services were out on Nov. 17 when an authentication processing problem took them offline for several hours. Read More
Lawsuits Wise Services Settles False Claims Act Suit Over MOX Project James Leggate November 21, 2022 No Comments Subcontractor will pay more than $300,000 to resolve allegations that it defrauded the government with false invoices.Read More