James Leggate

Months before a six-story apartment building in Davenport, Iowa, partially collapsed May 28, a structural engineer advised the property owner that an unexpected void space had been discovered during repairs to a damaged area of the exterior brick wall.

In what the civil engineers gtroup termed "the most significant change" to the 7-22 standard's flood load provisions since the inception of ASCE 7. the new supplement ties flood hazard mitigation to a structure’s risk level, and sets the hazard area for most risk categories to the 500-year floodplain for determining flood loads.

Denver Water is raising its dam outside Boulder, Colo., by 131 ft to nearly triple the capacity of Gross Reservoir.

Six-story Davenport apartment structure had been undergoing exterior brick wall repairs prior to partial collapse on May 28, with two people feared still inside and dead. 

The Bureau of Reclamation opened a funding opportunity for project proposals to result in measurable water savings in Lake Mead at the Arizona-Nevada border, or to add new water to an applicant’s supply to cut use of river water,

The tech equipment maker says the amount of its investment in the California project is contingent on the federal funding it receives via the Chips and Science Act.

The city plans to upgrade a water reclamation facility and build an advanced purification facility to protect its water supply against drought.

CTA's plan calls for its Red Line L train to be extended 5.6 miles into Chicago's Far South Side with four new stations and a storage and maintenance facility.

Three teams, comprising eight firms, were picked by Gateway Commission to submit proposals to serve as project delivery partner for the rail tunnel project between New York and New Jersey.

James Cahill will serve 51 months in a New York medium-security federal prison for accepting more than $140,000 in cash plus other benefits to help a non-union contractor win jobs.