South Africa has approved the construction of two coal-fired power plants with collective capacity of 863.3 MW under the first phase of the country’s two-phase Coal-based Independent Power Producer Program that aims to generate an additional 2,500 MW by 2021.

Arcadis NV and contractor Adolph & Peterson chiefs depart. Also, a former Caterpillar CEO and CH2M VP are dead.

The 2016 update of the American Institute of Steel Construction standard “Prequalified Connections for Special and Intermediate Steel Moment Frames for Seismic Applications (ANSI/AISC 358-16)” has nine prequalified beam-to- column moment connections, or four more than the 2010 edition and seven more than the original 2005 standard.

Natural-gas producers are optimistic for the future growth of the global industry between now and 2020, according to an annual survey of the natural-gas industry by Black & Veatch.

Chicago-based Invenergy is proposing to build four new wind farms and two solar farms to provide 700 megawatts of generation that would triple existing renewable energy available on Long Island.

After decades of starts and stops, three air-rights projects over the Massachusetts Turnpike are gaining traction.