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STORM Law Creates Resilience Revolving Disaster Funds

Law signed by President Trump Gives FEMA Ability to Grant Money to States, Tribal Governments for Disaster Mitigation

January 7, 2021

STORM Act becomes law, authorizing FEMA to grant money to states for resilience revolving loan funds but $200-million appropriation to fund it doesn't start until 2022.

Corps Issues Final Project Water-Crossing Rules

Mary B. Powers

January 6, 2021

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No start or end dates in revised Nationwide Permits, with Biden changes still looming for controversial mandates.

Obituary: Innovator Jim O'Brien, 91, Kept Projects, Clients, on Critical Path

Debra K. Rubin

January 6, 2021

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CPM scheduling guru and CM firm co-founder also authored the field's first textbook in 1965, still in wide use.

Picking the Photos That Tell Construction's Story

Scott Blair

January 6, 2021

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Despite a tumultuous year that made traveling to jobsites difficult at best, ENR readers still came through—and then some—by submitting more than 900 entries to our annual photo contest.

Viewpoint On Importance of Quality and Aesthetics

K.N. Gunalan, PhD, P.E., AECOM

January 6, 2021

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Infrastructure marvels and structures in any period of history—from the Hoover Dam to the Washington Monument—often amaze us by their scale and technical innovation and all that is needed to build them.

Industry Groups Worry Massachusetts Climate Bill Could Derail Development

Legislation would slash emissions by 50% of 1990 levels by the end of this decade

Scott Van Voorhis

January 6, 2021

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A provision in the newly passed NextGen Roadmap bill would enable individual cities, towns and suburbs to mandate tough, net-zero-energy building codes that could hurt construction and development at a time when the economy remains shaky, developers say.

Pulse: Project News for the Week of January 11, 2021

January 6, 2021

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Treasure Valley Renewable Resources is planning to construct a sorghum and biogas manufacturing facility in Parma.

P3 Considered for New Streetcar Corridor in Tampa

January 6, 2021

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The city of Tampa, Fla., is consdering a public-private partnership that would create an 8.25-mile, 18-station streetcar connection between downtown and the city’s airport.