Articles by Pam McFarland

Infrastructure agency chiefs need new ways to keep coastal and urban structures, critical bridge crossings and even public sector diversity programs hardened against growing climate change and human-caused risks, they told an ENR conference in Manhattan on Sept. 16.

But some industry groups favor Trump, believing he would be more sympathetic to business concerns. 

Capital improvements at 293 aging dams will be boosted in agency's first round of Infrastructure law funding. 

U.S. Bureau of Land Management releases proposal to direct expanded development on about 31 million acres in 11 western states.

Addressing delegates at the party nominating convention in Chicago, Vice President Kamala Harris touched on energy and immigration issues but did not air specific policy changes to the existing platform outlined by President Joe Biden. 

With multiplying effects of more frequent and intense storms, infrastructure investments—despite recent historic funding—must take into account how to get the most bang for the buck, say climate change experts.

New program will support development of more accurate product content rating system to boost agency and contractor purchases of low-carbon construction materials. 

Strong endorsements come in for the Minnesota governor from organized labor and state AGC chapter, but Associated Builders and Contractors criticized Walz's record.

Clean power developer Hecate aims to build arrays on 8,000 acres of federal land at former nuclear weapons megasite under Biden program to use expanses of real estate at locations across the US for renewables. 

The DOT bill also proposes a "fix" for a long-standing highway funding issue.