Canada's National Energy Board has failed to monitor the construction and maintenance activities of the nation's top pipeline shippers and enforce safety mandates, said Julie Gelfand, commissioner of environment and sustainable development in the office of the auditor general.
The Madrid-based clean power developer will shed a chunk of firm's biofuels business to skirt bankruptcy—for now—but denies France's Vinci will buy its key engineering operation.
Algeria’s Ministry of Transport has signed an agreement with three firms for the construction of a $3.5-billion deep-sea port in Algeria over the next seven years.
Even the most well-constructed building may have little chance against a direct hit from the 200-mph winds of an EF5 tornado. But a recently released ASCE study suggests that, away from the center of these catastrophic twisters, greater attention to structural load paths and construction quality may improve building performance, while also helping structures withstand direct hits from smaller, less powerful storms.
Indonesia sprung a surprise on Jan. 28, suspending a $5.5-billion high-speed-rail project that is being implemented by a Chinese company and financed by the China Development Bank.
Ontario transportation officials have made some initial findings on what triggered the deck split and nearly 2-ft upward displacement on one span of the province’s first cable-stayed bridge.