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Pestrella has spent his entire 38-year career at LA County Public Works, making his way up from field hydrologist to director.

Philip Hoare, set to take over as UK contractor's leader of ten years steps down, aimed to fix ‘broken’ industry models as COO of AtkinsRéalis.

The CIO says DPR is currently piloting how AI and more tech advancements can improve its workflow.

Tech firm president and CEO announced March 10 the search for a successor and his new planned role at the software company he founded.

Annual California gathering featured lessons learned, new ideas.

Wieland, a supplier of copper and copper alloys, has hired Graycor and Helmkamp Construction as the design-build contractor on a $500-million expansion of its East Alton, Ill., manufacturing facility.

Worried about federal funding, Illinois has postponed closing on property rights for land needed for a $1.2-billion project to prevent Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes.

The bridge received almost $400 million from the federal Bridge Investment Program, with Tennessee and Arkansas splitting the remaining $787.5-million cost. 

The decision leaves a related, $6.5-billion development plan in limbo as hurricane repairs to the team's current ballpark continue. 

The package includes trackway, a retaining wall, bridges and viaduct leading from the current Northeast Corridor to the future tunnel portal.

Corps officials hope to award the contract this fall in order for construction to begin next year.

Two sharply contrasting assessments of New York State's safety progress.

Bechtel, Fluor, Turner Construction, North America’s Building Trades Unions, DPR, Kiewit, Clark Construction and Skanska execs aim to lower industry's craftworker suicide rate and boost mental health.

The $1.4-billion expansion at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport includes both modular methods and stick-built construction.

Projects in New Jersey, Massachusetts and Virginia face challenges from new federal energy politics, but construction is making key progress on ongoing off-shore wind facilities.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to reconsider existing regulations for pollution cleanup, water discharge and air emissions limits while gutting internal diversity efforts and environmental justice programs for already hard-hit communities.

Continuing resolution cuts some funding for transportation safety projects and Army Corps of Engineers civil works.

Nominee previously served in the U.S. Dept. of Transportation during the first Trump administration.

Big wastewater treatment site backup gas power plant is strongly opposed by residents of city already deemed a pollution-burdened community.

Jury decides Greenpeace should pay more than $660 million in damages to Energy Transfer Partners for defamation, trespassing and other illegal actions involving protests against the pipeline. 

A Spanish consortium of Sacyr, Acciona and Cinta, the toll road subsidiary of Ferrovial, lead the project.

The contractor's in-house venture capital program, Turner Ventures, will directly help construction technology startups advance and grow.

Information derived from Industrial Reports, a market intelligence firm specializing in industrial construction and equipment leads.

Former chiefs of nine leading companies working in the U.S. and globally say the industry faces a more transactional environment that challenges ethical standards and could compromise corporate and practitioner accountability.

ConstructivIQ, an artificial intelligence-driven integrated procurement, planning and material tracking software tool, has been deployed enterprise-wide by contractor DPR Construction since early February.

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