URS exec takes CEO role at American Bridge; former Mace executive now is a VP at McKinsey.

As a new federal rule takes effect in August to require employers to post injury and illness records electronically, lawmakers and construction-sector advocates on opposite sides squared off at a May 25 congressional hearing on the mandate’s approach to improved workplace safety.

As pressure mounts on coal-and natural-gas-fired power plants—as well as cement kilns—to reduce CO2 emissions, researchers are looking to not only capture and store those emissions but also to convert CO2 into marketable products.

Hypersaline cooling-water seepage from Florida Power & Light Co.’s 3550-MW Turkey Point Power Station in Florida City has polluted the shallow Biscayne Aquifer and now is being drawn back to the plant’s property through retraction wells in an operation expected to take 10 years.

Industry's 5.2% May rate lowest since October 2006 but the bad news was loss of 15,000 jobs.

Completed nonresidential projects' total off 2.1% from March, but climbs 2.5% from April 2015.