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Though the San Francisco 49ers didn't make this year's Super Bowl, the team and their home-area construction market were still winners thanks to the NFL's TV revenue-funded largess.

ENR's list of the Top Stories of 2011 omitted a highly important event — the East Coast Earthquake that occurred on August 23.

North Carolina joined the growing number of states discovering or rediscovering toll roads as a means for building highways today with the opening of the first 3.4-mile phase of the Triangle Expressway (TriEx) near Durham. Once the second-phase is completed around this time next year, the $1 billion, six-lane TriEx

There must be a lot of smiles around Vermont’s capital city of Montpelier these days. And not just because the holidays are around the corner, or the fall leaves were particularly attractive this year.

Montgomery County, Md., is determined to ensure that the new Purple Line light-rail system will join the dozens of active rail lines already sharing rights-of-way with recreational trails across the country. For this to happen, however, the County must first figure out how to execute a multi-modal squeeze play.

You gotta admit that when it comes to closing down infrastructure, nobody does it like Seattle.

Just a few weeks after completing their post-East Coast Earthquake exterior survey of the Washington Monument, members of Chicago-based Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates’ Difficult Access Team (DAT) are now performing a similar high-flying examination of the Washington National Cathedral.

The roar of ocean waves and cries of seabirds on Hatteras Island’s Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge have now been joined by dump truck back-up horns and two pile-drivers as the North Carolina Dept. of Transportation races both the calendar and the climate to repair State Route 12.

Same island, different storm, big problem. Hurricanes are nothing new on Hatteras Island, one of the slender barrier islands that make up North Carolina’s Outer Banks. They’ve come and gone over the centuries, using the forces of wind and waves to shape and reshape Hatteras’ profile.

The East Coast experienced a rare earthquake Tuesday afternoon, as a 5.9 temblor rattled buildings and structures across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, and was felt as far west as Cleveland and Detroit.   According to the U.S. Geologic Survey, the quake was located 3.7 miles underground and centered in Mineral, Va.,