The city of Los Angeles has embarked on a comprehensive planning effort to unify its potable water, stormwater and wastewater systems in a holistic approach to minimize cost and maximize public benefit.
At least one construction industry group is pleased that the Dept. of Labor has issued new guidance on complying with its new injury and illness record-keeping rule’s anti-retaliation provisions that relate to drug testing.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has rejected objections raised by General Electric Co. to a final cleanup plan, issued in February, for toxics in the Housatonic River in New England.
The U.K. government on Oct. 25 approved a controversial $22-billion plan to build a third runway at London’s Heathrow Airport, 45 kilometers west of the city.
The discovery of new environmental risks at what Canadian officials
consider a pioneering planned brownfield redevelopment in Toronto has added some $205 million to the project cost.
An Obama administration rule that would require federal contractors and subcontractors to disclose past labor-law violations puts the contractor groups and organized labor at odds.
Chicago-based Invenergy is proposing to build four new wind farms and two solar farms to provide 700 megawatts of generation that would triple existing renewable energy available on Long Island.
Natural-gas producers are optimistic for the future growth of the global industry between now and 2020, according to an annual survey of the natural-gas industry by Black & Veatch.
The 2016 update of the American Institute of Steel Construction standard “Prequalified Connections for Special and Intermediate Steel Moment Frames for Seismic Applications (ANSI/AISC 358-16)” has nine prequalified beam-to- column moment connections, or four more than the 2010 edition and seven more than the original 2005 standard.
Managing jobsites with dozens or hundreds of workers can be a headache for site supervisors, and getting workers to report every small injury or safety incident is a challenge for safety managers.
Wellness centers, health-care facilities, medical centers, clinics, hospitals and assisted-living complexes—facilities that treat the sick and aid the aging—are getting healthier themselves.
With increased use of online shopping, industrial property developers see strong and steady demand for a wide range of distribution facilities across the U.S. to service client needs.
Despite the continuing uncertainty regarding a long-term federal aviation bill, airport construction programs, especially at the large hubs, are resurging in the U.S.
There are ambitious construction plans at major universities and school districts across the U.S., with the recent completion of major projects not slowing down the pace in the education market.
Last year’s passage of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act may have provided the nation’s transportation agencies with more funding certainty, but the project planning and implementation landscape is substantially different than the one covered by the previous, multiyear bill.
It took Flint, Mich.’s water issues, which rose to a crisis level last year with news of the city’s extensive lead-tainted supply, to catapult sector needs higher on legislative agendas and into the public consciousness.