Long career for transportation operations and finance expert included a long stint as the U.S. Transportation Dept chief operating officer and leadership of two major U.S. urban transit systems.

In a city already filled with “one-of-a-kind” attractions, the newly opened Sphere at the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas has pushed the benchmark for “unique” even higher. 

Over the six years it took to build Terminal C at Orlando International Airport, the world experienced a crippling pandemic, a precipitous drop and equally sharp rebound in passenger air travel, supply chain disruptions and other issues—all of which compounded the inherent challenges of creating a 1.8-million-sq-ft aviation facility rich in technology and amenities at one of the nation’s fastest growing airports.

State report faults agency for not posting proper signage alerting motorists to construction site in median but “serious” violation carries no financial penalty in wake of I-695 work zone incident that killed six.

After an early morning structural collapse of the 447-ft-long, three-span steel K-frame structure sent a bus and several passenger cars plummeting approximately 100 ft into a ravine below and injuring 10 people, Fern Hollow was suddenly in the national spotlight—both as a source of relief that a more serious tragedy had been averted and as a symbol of the nation’s deteriorating transportation infrastructure.

Construction Inclusion Week, set for Oct. 16-20, has more than 5,000 contractor and other participants signed up this year; while leaders on Oct. 3 launched AEC Unites, a nonprofit focused on recruitment of Black professionals and sustained hiring of Black-owned companies.

More than three years after its $298-million acquisition by construction services provider Arcosa Inc., Houston-based recycling and demolition specialist Cherry Cos. is gradually rebranding itself as Arcosa Stabilized & Recycling.

Facilities that could generate triple-digit megawatts of solar power are set to start construction at Kansas City International Airport and Dulles International Airport.

Construction is set to begin later this year on the $3-billion TransWest Express Transmission Project, a 732-mile high-voltage interregional transmission system designed to deliver about 20,000 GW of renewable energy per year to western states and in early September on the estimated $8-billion SunZia transmission project that will carry an initial 3 GW of clean power to southwest U.S. markets. 

Nashville, Tenn.’s signature downtown arterial, named Broadway, will soon boast a new gateway bridge to make travel safer and more efficient.