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Commentary from the Top 500 Design Firms in 2024 reveals a shift in the use of artificial intelligence to complement design services.

ENR History

Arthur Wellington, Influential Engineer, Editor Set Standards

Scott Lewis

April 25, 2024

Engineering News in its early years was more of a civil engineering journal than its later incarnations (including Engineering News-Record), with numerous articles contributed by engineers.

Executive News

Obituary: Moles Leader Gerry Carty Was Heavy Construction Advocate

April 16, 2024

Contracting veteran, 91, led the now 600-member professionals group for two decades as executive director.

Clean Energy

Ontario Launches $730M Overhaul of Niagara Hydro Stations

April 18, 2024

Newly spun off GE Vernova will perform the work, which is expected to increase capacity of some of the utility units.

Road Repairs

Crews Stabilizing Highway 1 in Big Sur As Engineers Ponder Long-Term Solution

Matthew Heller

April 16, 2024

The scenic coastal highway has long been prone to post-rainfall instability.

Transportation

Peru Awards Lima's $3.4B Ring Road Project to Spanish Consortium

C.J. Schexnayder

April 15, 2024

New transport link will be crucial for alleviating severe traffic congestion in Peru's capitol and promoting more efficient freight movement.

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Natural Gas Power

Utility Wants $411M Floating Gas Power Plant Built in La. Energy Hub

April 12, 2024

Entergy says barge-mounted power plant in Port Fourchon would withstand weather risks, but fossil fuel opponents are set to voice key concerns to regulators.

Black & Veatch, Samsung OK'ed to Proceed on $4B Canada LNG Terminal

David Godkin

April 21, 2024

Owners Pembina Pipeline and the Haisla Nation say it has some of the sector's most innovative emissions control technologies, but not enough to appease environmental-advocate opponents.

Clean Energy

California Offshore Wind Propels $6.1B of New Grid Infrastructure Projects

April 9, 2024

Investment in 26 transmission projects would accommodate an added 85 GW of generating capacity to meet state load growth and greenhouse gas reduction goals by 2035, state grid operator CAISO said.

Drinking Water Infrastructure

EPA Issues New PFAS Standard, Provides $1B for Testing, Cleanup of 'Forever Chemicals'

Tom Ichniowski

April 10, 2024

New contaminant levels for two key PFAS chemicals, each 4 parts per trillion, are near the current U.S. practical detection limit, industry expert tells ENR, but EPA says more federal funding and added compliance time would boost fixes by drinking water systems.

Clean Energy Development

AtkinsRéalis to Lead $3B Canada Green Hydrogen Project First Design

David Godkin

April 7, 2024

Quebec facility would produce 70,000 metric tons annually of green hydrogen to supply the province’s developing industrial decarbonization hub.

Natural Disasters

Strong Taiwan Quake Destroys At Least 28 Buildings, But 1,667-Ft Taipei 101 Performs Well

April 3, 2024

The magnitude 7.4 earthquake is the most severe to impact Taiwan in nearly 25 years.

Transportation

World’s Longest Sunken Tunnel Project Team Completes Trench Dredging

Peter Reina

April 19, 2024

The project is advancing with casting of 89 concrete elements.

Manufacturing

US Offers TSMC $6.6B to Support Arizona Chip Plant Projects

April 10, 2024

The semiconductor manufacturer also announced plans to build a third fab in Phoenix.

Manufacturing

Samsung Set to Receive $6.4B from US for Texas Fab Projects

April 15, 2024

Samsung is building two fabs and planning an expansion of another.

Transportation

Tunneling Wraps Up on LA Metro's $9.5B D Line Extension

Greg Aragon

April 9, 2024

LA Metro's D Line Extension reached a key milestone as the tunnels for all nine miles of the project have been successfully completed.

Construction Accidents

Fort Lauderdale Crane Incident Leaves Worker Dead, Three Others Injured

Jim Parsons

April 5, 2024

One Comment

Work has stopped and OSHA is investigating after Jorge De La Torre, 27, was killed April 4 when a portion of a crane fell onto a bridge in the city.

Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse

Army Corps Outlines Ongoing Salvage Operations at Baltimore Bridge Collapse Site

Jim Parsons

April 19, 2024

Remains of two construction workers are still missing and strategies to refloat the container ship that hit the bridge have proven more complex than initially thought.

Materials

Biden Calls for US to Weigh Tariff Hike on China-Made Steel, Aluminum

Tom Ichniowski

April 18, 2024

Biden wants the U.S. Trade Representative to consider tripling the present tariff level.

Infrastructure Act

US DOT Awards $830M for Resilience-Related Infrastructure Upgrades

Tom Ichniowski

April 11, 2024

Grants go to 80 road, bridge, transit and other projects to improve their ability to withstand floods, rising seas and other harmful effects of climate change in 37 states, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands.

Renewable Energy

NY Advances New Offshore Wind Plan After Scrapping 4 GW Over Turbine Size Dispute

April 24, 2024

But project development continues in the state—with builder Skanska gaining a $861M NYC port upgrade contract—and in the US, with federal lease auctions now set for offshore Maine and Oregon as first of 12 through 2028, and NJ announcing it will seek up to 4 GW capacity add.

Editorials

Safety Week: Open Ears To All Worker Voices

Richard Korman

April 25, 2024

Now 10 years old, Construction Safety Week has evolved. What at first was a national industry stand-down to emphasize safety compliance has grown into a coordinated five days of training and advocacy.

Water Quality

California Board OKs Drinking Water Standard for Hexavalent Chromium

Pam McFarland

April 23, 2024

California rule sets limits on a carcinogen that are the same as those invalidated in 2017.

Federal Judge Tosses Suit to Halt $11B SunZia Transmission Project

April 24, 2024

One Comment

Ruling on 550-mile high-voltage, direct-current line to carry onshore wind from New Mexico will be appealed, project opponents said.

Industrial Leads for the Week of April 29, 2024

April 25, 2024

Hamakua Energy LLC is considering repowering its 60-MW natural gas-fired, combined-cycle power plant in Honoka’a, converting it to biomass-fired and constructing a battery energy storage system at the site.

Editorials

Safety Week: Open Ears To All Worker Voices

Richard Korman

April 25, 2024

Pulse for the Week of April 29, 2024

April 25, 2024

Information from Pulse is derived from the Dodge Construction Network, the most powerful source of information, insights, and connections in the commercial construction industry.

Building Information Modeling

Dublin Airport Takes Off Into Construction Cloud Digital Twin

Aileen Cho

April 25, 2024

Dublin Airport is pursuing a $1.8-billion capital investment program digitally, with more than 140 projects being delivered using the Autodesk Construction Cloud platform.

Construction Economics for April 29, 2024

April 25, 2024

ENR’s 20-city average cost indexes, wages and materials prices. Historical data and details for ENR’s 20 cities can be found at ENR.com/economics

Intel Corp. semiconductor fabrication plants

ENR 2024 Top Owners Sourcebook | Manufacturing

Leading the Next Generation of Chips

April 25, 2024

At a 1,000-acre site in Ohio, Intel Corp. (No. 1) is building a pair of semiconductor fabrication plants, or fabs, that promise to be part of an influx of new domestic production of leading-edge chips.

offshore oil export terminal in the Gulf of Mexico 30 miles off Freeport, Texas

ENR 2024 Top Owners Sourcebook | Oil&Gas

$1.8B Texas Oil Export Terminal OK'ed by Federal Regulator

April 25, 2024

Developer Enterprise Products Partners has not begun to seek contractors for the deepwater Sea Port Oil Terminal off Freeport and related pipelines.

2.6-GW offshore wind project off the coast of Virginia Beach, Va.

ENR 2024 Top Owners Sourcebook | Power

Dominion Energy Boosts Record Offshore Wind Project Off Virginia

April 25, 2024

Utiiity firm, ranked No. 12 on ENR's Top 425 Owners list, begins building in May its 2.6-GW giant, set to be the largest offshore wind project in the U.S. when finished.

ENR 2024 Top Owners Sourcebook | Transportation

Seattle’s ‘East Side Story’ Progresses

Jim Parsons

April 25, 2024

Sound Transit, serving the Seattle metropolitan area, will debut the first 6.5-mile segment of its $3.67-billion East Link Extension April 27, launching light-rail service along an eight-station route between South Bellevue and the Redmond Technology Center, both east of the city.

ENR 2024 Top Owners Sourcebook | Buildings & Developers

Work Begins on Florida Urban Village

Bruce Buckley

April 25, 2024

In March, Hines broke ground on its FAT Food Art Technology Village project, an 850,000-sq-ft mixed-use development in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Tyson Foods' 330,000-sq-ft, $300-million poultry processing plant

ENR 2024 Top Owners Sourcebook: The Big Project Divide

Emell D. Adolphus

Jonathan Keller

April 25, 2024