South Carolina Secretary of Transportation Christy Hall lost her job briefly on May 18, when the state Supreme Court invalidated Gov. Nikki Haley’s (R) power to appoint her.

Expecting to gain in an oil-services market that is showing signs of a recovery, sector engineering- construction giant Technip, Paris, and FMC Technologies, Houston, are set to merge next year to create an estimated $20-billion megafirm, the companies announced on May 19.

Misaligned mirrors are being blamed for a fire on May 19 at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in California’s Mojave Desert.

Mixed reality holograms are the buzz this month as Microsoft released HoloLens devices. Different than previous, completely virtual experiences, HoloLens combines holographic technology with actual reality to create an environment where at-scale holograms can be projected into physical environments. For those of us who live in actual space—and not just in the video game realm—this has huge impacts on our ability to design, construct, operate and improve projects. 

Florida Power & Light (FPL) says it could delay by as many as four years any further progress toward constructing the proposed expansion of its Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station in Florida City.