Construction Industry News

Bentley Systems took the first day of its annual Year in Infrastructure conference to announce a strategic partnership with Microsoft to better integrate the tech giant’s Azure cloud system into Bentley’s software, expanding its capabilities. 

Conference wrapup on Oct. 16 offered a glimpse at what comes next–the state of emerging technologies and how construction tech fits in the context of a changing industry market.

EPA says new mandate increases power plant flexibility in site specific cases; environmental groups say it violates a 2018 court order.

Largest grants go to ports in U.S. Virgin Islands; Norfolk, Va.; Seward, Alaska and Conneaut, Ohio.

Pennsylvania contractors are pushing for greater clarity and consistency in how state officials handle COVID-19 lockdown measures in the wake of a highly critical audit report.

Annual Best Projects competition honors 33 projects in several categories

Capitol Crossing, the MidAtlantic Project of the Year, restores Pierre L’Enfant’s original 1791 master plan for the capital city

Five years ago, the catastrophic collapse of the structure supporting Runway 5’s emergency overrun area left a 140-ft vertical gash of partially reinforced fill looming over a 540,000-cu-yd debris field. It also obliterated an adjacent road.

Working with the city of Alexandria, Va., Dept. of Recreation, Parks and Cultural Activities and Alexandria City Public Schools, the Keller Construction Management team replaced and expanded an existing elementary school and recreation center, combining them into one building with shared facilities.

The McCausland Lower School team delivered Springside Chestnut Hill Academy’s first major building since the 2010 merger of its all-girls and all-boys schools, bringing both together in one building.

The 103,000-sq-ft facility combines conventional classroom and hands-on instruction for a diverse range of career paths, from traditional vocations to criminal justice, information technology and business.

In the heart of Lafayette College, the five-story, 104,000-sq-ft academic science and laboratory building’s hillside site sits atop a subsurface rock vein. 

Construction veteran and civil engineer C. Terry Dooley, founder of the ACE Mentor Program affiliate in Los Angeles, died Sept. 27 at age 90.

Envisioned by architect Steven Holl as a “pavilion on the park,” the new Winter Visual Arts Center rises four stories to meet the canopy of neighboring old-growth, large-diameter trees on the campus of Franklin & Marshall College.

Built on the rocky site of Inova Loudoun Hospital’s Leesburg, Va., campus, excavation for the nine-story, 385,000-sq-ft bed tower required extensive blasting.

The 50,000-sq-ft renovation for Amicus Therapeutics spanned two floors of the company’s Global Research and Gene Therapy Center for Excellence and included laboratories, offices, common space and a unique interconnecting staircase.