The Dodge Momentum Index rose 2.4% in January. The monthly increase was the result of a 3.3% increase in institutional projects and a 1.6% increase in commercial work.
The budget proposal that President Obama sent to Congress on Feb. 9 confirmed the administration’s plans to terminate, nearly nine years after construction began, the multibillion-dollar Mixed-Oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication Facility project at the Savannah River site in South Carolina.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will abide by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to place a hold on implementing a rule to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants, the agency’s administrator says.
“Dramatic decrease” in skilled trades and professionals will pressure contractors and their projects over the next several years, says data presented at Construction Users Roundtable meeting in early February.
By summer, Arup is expected to present a design plan that addresses the unexpected amount of bouncing experienced by pedestrians crossing an HNTB-designed bridge in Brooklyn.
In Louisiana, a new administration has put a temporary hold on the state’s annual coastal restoration plan as it reviews the most ambitious tasks to date: two projects to divert Mississippi River sediment to restore the state’s disappearing wetlands.
The Washington Senate ousted state Dept. of Transportation Secretary Lynn Peterson on Feb. 5—the first rejection of a gubernatorial appointee in the state since 1998.
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