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Federal Contracting

Contractor Pleads Guilty to Disadvantaged-Business Fraud

DBE 'straw' firm knew non-disadvantaged contractor illegally performed SBA 8(a) work

Tom Ichniowski

November 16, 2016

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In related action, non-disadvantaged firm MCC Construction Co. pleaded guilty in February to fraud conspiracy.

Where Voters OK'd Spending Billions on New Public Works

Election 2016 also decided minimum-wage, right to work, marijuana and laws

Debra K. Rubin

Jim Parsons JT Long

Mary B. Powers Erin Richey

November 16, 2016

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See where states and cities passed new rules on taxes and right-to-work laws.

AECOM Expands Group, Reports Year-End Numbers; WSP Global CEO Change Set

Debra K. Rubin

November 16, 2016

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LaMont Wells, former president and chairman of federal defense and intelligence consultant Technology Management Associates, joined AECOM’s management services group as executive vice president in Germantown, Md.

Iowa DOT Chief Steps Down

November 16, 2016

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Paul Trombino, director of the Iowa Dept. of Transportation for the past five years, has announced that he will leave his post on Nov. 28, 2016.

Settlement Reached in California Toll-Road Extension Dispute

November 16, 2016

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A controversial plan to extend Orange County, Calif.’s state Route 241 Foothills-South toll road through a coastal state park has been dropped following a legal settlement between the region’s toll-road authorities and a coalition of environmental groups.

LiDAR System Passes Big Test, Could Aid Offshore Wind Projects

November 16, 2016

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A floating light detection and ranging (LiDAR) system developed at the University of Maine has successfully completed a new deployment performance test 12 miles off the Maine coast in 65 meters of water.

DC Developer Wins TVA Auction To Complete Alabama Nuke Site

Mary B. Powers

November 16, 2016

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Firm plans to invest up to $13 billion to complete nuclear units at the Bellefonte site in northern Alabama.

Interior Dept. Rule Aims To Boost Solar, Wind Energy Projects

Pam Hunter McFarland

November 16, 2016

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The Dept. of the Interior has released a final rule that creates incentives for solar- and wind-energy development on federal lands.

Civil Infrastructure Design Gets Boost From Bentley and Topcon

Tom Sawyer

Janice L. Tuchman

November 16, 2016

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The rise of cloud services, vendor partnerships and software refinement is supporting increasing multi-vendor interoperability of project data for the design, construction and management of roads and bridges.

Project Management

Viewpoint: Dispelling Myths About Lean Construction

John Wiegand

November 15, 2016

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When I met John Shook, one of the world’s leading lean management experts in Boston at the Lean Construction Institute Congress in 2015, a colleague asked him how far the construction industry in the U.S. has come with lean construction after 17 years.