With decarbonization incentives baked into recent federal spending packages, many owners across industrial and infrastructure sectors now have the wherewithal to think green.
When the city of Lenexa, Kan., this spring opted to move forward with a test pilot of “smart pavements,” it represented a vital step forward for electric vehicles.
In an increasingly complex global construction market, Top 250 firm executives say owners are placing a greater emphasis on meeting basic project goals—delivered on time, under budget and at promised value.
Global CM firm would become privately held and expand engineering and consulting platform for Global Infrastructure Solutions Inc. in transaction set to close in the fourth quarter.
The purchase, set for close in Q4, would add 5,000 employees to Montreal-based design firm's workforce and $875 million in revenue, mostly to its earth and environmental practice.
With more than $12 billion in IIJA funding allocated to carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies, AEC firms will need to innovate together to engineer, procure and construct pilot and demonstration projects that prove CCS technology can be adopted at a commercial scale.
As supply chain disruptions threaten to shelve some projects completely, more owners are using professional services firms to help reconfigure limited staff resources and keep schedules moving forward.
With projects facing rising material costs, crunched schedules and labor shortages, project delivery firms say owners are finding themselves at a fork in the road when it comes to design-bid-build versus alternative delivery models.