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The U.S. Corps of Engineers Galveston District and Jefferson County Drainage District No. 7 have brought on a joint venture of Freese and Nichols, COWI and CDM Smith (FCC-JV) to part of an $863 million effort to improve hurricane flood protection—levees and floodwalls—for a 65-square-mile area that includes Port Arthur, Texas, and adjacent communities.

Industry's workforce remains at 294,000, or 3.8%, below February's pre-pandemic level.

The contractor responsible for manufacturing defective concrete panels for the Silver Line Metro extension in northern Virginia was banned from bidding federal transportation projects for three years.

Code-based earthquake engineering is on the verge of getting simpler, thanks to the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program’s recommendation to replace the traditional seismic hazards maps with an improved seismic hazards database. 

The ultra-fast train would cut travel times between L.A. and Las Vegas in half, but a failed bond sale in the midst of a skeptical financial market has put the project on indefinite hold.

SoFi Stadium's digital twin from Willow consolidates 3.1 million sq ft of stadium and all its moving parts into a 16GB graphical and relational model that can be accessed from an iPad and analyzed by stadium management for optimizing building operations.