Engineering News Record

Former chairman of consultant Atkins is the replacement, but no new head of London Crossrail is announced now.

BLS reports construction added 5,000 jobs in Nov., a more modest gain than in Oct. and Sept.

National Academies' report proposes hiking federal and state capital spending by $20 billion to $45 billion per year.

But perspectives are at odds related to a reduced federal funding role in looming legislation.

Pierre Duhaime was forced out in 2012 in the wake of a contract payoff scandal in Libya and Montreal.

With 95% of gas meters relit as of Dec. 5, Columbia Gas of Massachusetts appears to be on track to meet its self-imposed deadline to restore natural gas service to Massachusetts in the wake of a series of massive gas explosions. 

As the current pipeline of infrastructure projects becomes larger and ever more complex, contractors are making increasingly risky bets that projects will be delivered on time and on budget. In the last year alone, we've witnessed two global contractors either file for creditor protection or go into liquidation.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced a $614-million loan to the City of San Diego for a water purification project.

Entrepreneur Elon Musk’s Boring Co. has dropped plans to construct a tunnel beneath Sepulveda Boulevard in Los Angeles after a settlement with project opponents.

Controlled implosions brought down the last structural vestiges of a former military docking and supply center in Bayonne, N.J., on Nov. 30, clearing the way for a 1.6-million-sq-ft logistics center.

Drones provide unprecedented access and new techniques allow extensive analysis, but final decisions still call for a trained human eye

The magnitudes 7.0 and 5.7 earthquake that struck Anchorage, Alaska, on Nov. 30 shook buildings and shattered highways, but caused limited structural damage and no reported loss of life, mostly due to the depth and location of the quake’s epicenter, as well as the city and state’s stringent building requirements.

National Climate Assessment says infrastructure must be made more resilient to floods, fires and temperature

Urban flooding is a “hidden” problem that is affecting large and small communities and will only get worse as the population grows, infrastructure ages, and extreme weather events become more common, according to a new study.

The multibillion-dollar completion of a nuclear unit at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s unfinished 1,260-MW Bellefonte plant in Alabama is in limbo after the federal power producer refused to complete its sale to Nuclear Development LLC, which has since filed  a breach of contract complaint in federal district court.