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Sustainable Design

Tools Gaining Industry Traction to Manage Building Carbon Emissions

February 20, 2022

UK and Finnish technologies provide designers quicker reads of embodied carbon impacts of their structural and materials choices. "We've been waiting for [something like this] for as long as I've been in the industry," says one engineering firm manager.

Clean Energy Construction

Feds Roll Out $12.1B in Infra Funding for Carbon Capture Tech, Pipelines

Mary B. Powers

Debra K. Rubin

February 20, 2022

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White House seeks comment by March 18 on approaches to extract CO2 from sources and from the air, with $2B for new pipelines. Capture projects have strong critics, but DOE also funds $4M of planned Rio Tinto-Talon Metals nickel mine demo project in Minnesota.

Energy

Enbridge to Issue RFPs for $500M Straits of Mackinac Oil-Gas Tunnel

Replacement for Line 5 pipeline could start construction as early as 2024

Annemarie Mannion

February 17, 2022

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Replacement for aging Line 5 pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac could start construction by 2024.

Federal Funding

UPDATE: Near Deadline, Biden Signs Stopgap Bill, Avoiding Government Shutdown

Measure gives appropriators more time to draft an omnibus package

Tom Ichniowski

February 17, 2022

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New bill still doesn't release full IIJA highway and transit funding.

Energy Construction

Bechtel Set for April Construction Start on $25B Louisiana LNG

But gas projects now are likely to get added scrutiny in a tighter FERC approval policy adopted Feb. 17 in a 3-2 vote.

Debra K. Rubin

February 17, 2022

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Contractor will begin full construction on Driftwood complex in Louisiana under a $15.5-billion fixed-price contract, but gas projects now are set for added federal scrutiny in a tighter FERC approval policy adopted Feb. 17 in a 3-2 vote.

Workforce

Site Intelligence Provider Eyrus Raises $12M, With Autodesk an Investor

Construction and oil and gas customers are main users of visibility/reporting services

Jeff Yoders

February 17, 2022

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Alexandra McManus, CEO and co-founder, says startup's platform, which automates workforce data collection in real time, has been used on more than $220 billion worth of construction projects.

Energy Disaster

ASCE Report Calls for Sweeping Changes to Texas Grid Infrastructure

C.J. Schexnayder

February 17, 2022

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Detailed analysis of the catastrophic 2021 Texas winter storm finds systemic flaws in the state's electric sector contributed to a "cascade of failures" that overwhelmed the power grid.

Transportation

Judge Gives Cintra Bid Protest of $9B Md. P3 Project Award New Life

Jim Parsons

February 17, 2022

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Ruling largely rejects state assertion that challenge of Transurban/Macquarie contract missed key deadline; no state comment yet on impact to project schedule.

Environment

Infrastructure Law Funds Will Speed Great Lakes Cleanups

EPA to use most of the funds to reduce region's number of 'areas of concern'

Pam McFarland

February 17, 2022

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EPA plans to spend $1 billion from IIJA to speed cleanups, allowing most key projects in region to be completed by 2030.

New $130M Hanford Site Facility Is Start of Major Nuclear Waste Cleanup

Tim Newcomb

February 17, 2022

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DOE contractor-built system is first step in removing long buried plutonium production wastes at huge complex before they are transformed into inert glass and disposed, possibly at an offsite storage facility.

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Tools Gaining Industry Traction to Manage Building Carbon Emissions

Feds Roll Out $12.1B in Infra Funding for Carbon Capture Tech, Pipelines

Enbridge to Issue RFPs for $500M Straits of Mackinac Oil-Gas Tunnel

UPDATE: Near Deadline, Biden Signs Stopgap Bill, Avoiding Government Shutdown

Bechtel Set for April Construction Start on $25B Louisiana LNG

Site Intelligence Provider Eyrus Raises $12M, With Autodesk an Investor

ASCE Report Calls for Sweeping Changes to Texas Grid Infrastructure

Judge Gives Cintra Bid Protest of $9B Md. P3 Project Award New Life

Infrastructure Law Funds Will Speed Great Lakes Cleanups

New $130M Hanford Site Facility Is Start of Major Nuclear Waste Cleanup

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