In the latest competition for the popular surface-transportation grants, U.S. DOT is going back to asking localities to submit pre-applications first.

Utility's innovative projects to be profiled in May 11 edition of ENR Northwest

Program recognizes the enduring contributions of industry professionals to their profession, their community and the built environment.

A listing of the largest projects to break ground in the region this year.

I was at a hearing before the Environment and Public Works Committee this week. It was supposed to be a routine budget hearing, but as is often the case with the new GOP majority, lawmakers turned a discussion of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s fiscal 2016 budget into a debate on climate change.

Surety Liberty Mutual reached a settlement in December with the auditor for Ballenger Construction Co., the Texas contractor whose late 2012 bankruptcy left dozens of unfinished projects.

House chairman drafting bill but awaits tax committees' revenue plan. DOT chief warns of slowdown in highway-aid disbursements to states if a new bill isn't in place by May 31.

A proposal released this spring to clarify which waters in the United States fall under the protections of the Clean Water Act is a hot-button issue among industry firms, lawmakers and environmental advocates, and on Feb. 4, U.S. lawmakers took the unusual step of holding a bicameral joint committee hearing to take a closer

I've had a bee in my bonnet about office cubicles for years—even before I lost my private office to a cubicle way back in 1998. Finally, a report is out that substantiates my concerns about the negative impacts of a lack of privacy for so-called "knowledge work."

Environment and Public Works panel's first hearing this year focused on Topic A: long-term legislation to bolster the Highway Trust Fund and extend the highway program.