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.

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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.

A court verdict will save the contractor $7.2 million in wages paid for work on the new Tappan Zee Bridge project over the Hudson River.

Boston’s Green Line extension to Somerville and Medford likely will be delayed again due to rising costs, Massachusetts Dept. of Transportation officials said on Oct. 21.

French state-controlled utility EDF Energy, Paris, signed a “strategic investment agreement” on Oct. 21 transferring 33.5% of its 100% ownership of the U.K.’s planned nuclear power plant to Beijing-based China General Nuclear Corp.

Congress has passed a new budget blueprint that would provide relatively modest increases in federal spending for the current fiscal year and the next one. That could provide a boost for construction programs.