With millions of people around the world on the move, it's tempting to see the immigration problem in the U.S. as a matter of what to do about the undocumented 11 million.
The U.S. Dept. of Transportation ended on Sept. 14 the suspension of Rocky Hill, Conn.-based Garg Consulting Services, which failed to properly vet the credentials of Barry Kenneth Purnell, Jr., a bridge inspector who falsely claimed to have an Engineer-in-Training certificate from the state of Connecticut.
Santa Clara County, Calif., announced Sept. 17 that it had issued Turner Construction Co. a “notice of termination” of Turner’s right to finish work on an overbudget and behind-schedule county hospital expansion project in San Jose.
With the exponentially increasing ability to capture and analyze vast quantities of data from objects—bridge piers and pavements, for example—the dream of an intelligent transportation infrastructure (ITI) is within reach.
With the recent Legionnaires’ disease outbreak apparently under control, the New York City Councils’ newly adopted law requiring building owners to certify, test and clean building cooling towers has set off a flurry of work.
Bridge inspector Barry Kenneth Purnell Jr. has not been shy about advertising his qualifications on LinkedIn, where he claims to be a licensed professional civil engineer with wide experience in project management and contract acquisition.
We’ve reached a teachable moment about risk when it comes to Boston’s bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics, which is being promoted as a major driver of housing and infrastructure. To make its case, the Olympics bid committee's proposal includes a risk plan that is detailed—but not detailed enough. Will Boston win?Such moments have arrived before with other Olympic hosting proposals, most notably Chicago’s bid, in 2009, to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. There, the proponents also showed they had covered all the risks with a detailed plan, but they failed to win the bid.Construction costs and overruns
Jay Senter for ENR The site of a planned development in Kansas for which an engineering firm claims it is owed a large payment. Related Links: Fluor's Paul Bruno: How We Approach Risk Management By most standards, developer Cameron Group LLC appears to be an excellent prospect as a client: It has an impressive portfolio of malls, and its principals have gleaming résumés, many acquired while working at The Pyramid Cos., a Syracuse, N.Y.-based developer.So, when Cameron needed mechanical and electrical drawings for a long-delayed new retail development that the firm hoped would transform a weedy parcel in Mission, Kan.,
To prevent trouble on the roughly 35 non-permanent structure contracts to be awarded for next summer’s Olympics games, the Rio 2016 Organizing Committee has set up a dispute program and appointed Jerry Brodsky, director of the Latin American practice group for Peckar & Abramson, to lead it.
Steve Hill for ENR Fluor's Bruno said any risk can be tolerated if it is identified, mitigated and managed. Related Links: Black & Veatch's Triplett: Risk Control Shouldn't Hinder Growth Fluor Corp.’s international portfolio and financial might would seem to dictate a conservative approach to design and construction. Few would be surprised, for example, if the company abided by the familiar concept that every project risk ought to be commensurate with potential reward.As it happens, that isn’t how Fluor practices risk management, said Paul Bruno, the company’s managing general counsel. And he wants to dispel the old idea that risk
