In a huge deal that Wall Steet analysts said posed both rewards and risks for its key participants, Chicago Bridge & Iron on Oct. 27 said it would sell its nuclear construction business in the U.S. and China to Westinhouse Electric.
Erection of precast-concrete girders for the aerial guideway of the $2.8-billion Silver Line rail project in northern Virginia has resumed, even as an investigation continues into the cause of longitudinal cracks found in several 96-in.-high units this past summer.
The Washington Post and The Dallas Morning News proved recently just how far construction has to go to climb out of the low, dark place it now occupies in the minds of some journalists.