Denmark-based wind-power pioneer DONG Energy—the world’s largest offshore developer—has opened a Boston office, planning to build what could be North America’s largest offshore wind farm, located 15 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard.
Days after two Wisconsin oil and ethanol train derailments in early November, a national environmental watchdog group released a scathing critique of the decaying state of freight rail infrastructure—especially bridges—and the dangers they pose to wildlife habitats and waterways as heavier volumes of hazardous materials put pressure on aging track.
Environmentalists panned Montreal’s controversial decision to divert, for a week earlier this month, raw sewage into the St. Lawrence River to repair a key wastewater tunnel.
Two Florida state representatives have filed legislation aimed at ending the state’s practice of authorizing advanced cost recovery related to nuclear and integrated gasification combined-cycle powerplants.
A recent U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission report noted that safety-related structural welds at the Savannah River site’s Mixed-Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility, or MOX, failed to meet industry specifications, according to The Augusta Chronicle.
The Export-Import Bank of China is in the final stages of striking a deal with two real estate magnates to complete construction of the stalled, $3.5-billion Baha Mar Resort project in the Bahamas.
A consortium of three Canadian pension funds on Nov. 12 agreed to acquire for $2.8 billion the 7.8-mile Chicago Skyway toll road that extends from central Chicago to the Indiana state line.
The Nevada Department of Transportation kicked off the largest construction project in state history earlier this month when it named Arizona-based Kiewit Infrastructure West Co. the design-build contractor for Project NEON, the 3.7-mile widening of Interstate 15 between Sahara Avenue and the “Spaghetti Bowl” interchange in downtown Las Vegas.
Shortly before Congress adopted a measure to help curtail individual surety fraud, an appellate court decision seemed to make it more difficult for contractors who use individual surety bonds on public project bids to compete.
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