Articles by C.J. Schexnayder

A $1.6-billion project to revitalize the convergence of three major highways in Southern Tarrant County has been awarded to a joint-venture partnership of Kiewit Infrastructure South Co. and Austin Bridge & Road.

Site and utility challenges, critical backstage requirements and bringing the owner’s vision to life complicated the design and construction of this $$338-million P3 project for the University of Texas at Austin.

The population of North Texas has surged by 650,00 over the last five years, increasing the demand for essential services from ENR Texas & Louisiana’s 2022 Owner of the Year, the North Texas Municipal Water District.

As construction strives to meet emissions standards, a persistent obstacle is the carbon-intensive process that produces cement. But the emergence of low-carbon solutions to help change the calculus of cement’s creation seems to have hit a tipping point. 

An effort to bolster flood control in northeast Houston through improvements to the Lake Houston dam have been scaled back due to financial constraints on the project. Houston officials say that the length of proposed floodgates will need to be reduced by half to meet the project’s budget.

In recent years contractors have seen the advantages of employing light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology with unmanned aerial systems (UAS), also known as drones.

Ambitious effort restarts to boost historic waterway’s freshwater supply shortage, with design now by the US Army Corps of Engineers and a new tender set for release in two years.

Detailed analysis of the catastrophic 2021 Texas winter storm finds systemic flaws in the state's electric sector contributed to a "cascade of failures" that overwhelmed the power grid.

The Houston Airport System is currently accepting bids for the design and construction of Taxiway Lima, which could break ground as early as this summer and be completed next year.