Engineering News Record

On Oct. 16, the Webcor/Obayashi Joint Venture, general contractor for the Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco, filed a complaint San Francisco Superior Court against the hub's owner, the Transbay Joint Powers Authority, seeking more than $150 million in extra payments on its $994,517,600 contract.

The $578-million bond issue follows a successful decade-long run of so-called “green bonds” that have funded 160 projects tied to green energy.

The UK's National Infrastructure Commission chairman, Sir John Armitt, and Bentley Systems' CEO, Greg Bentley, sit down for a discussion about improving infrastructure through public policy, data, and digital twins.

So our challenge is to again teach that the mathematics and discipline of CPM, coupled with proper software, will deliver return on the intellectual effort required.

Strategically placed generators revive powerless sewage systems

Allana Buick & Bers, a forensic engineer hired by the Millennium Tower Association, says the cracked window glass in Unit 36B of the San Francisco residential building was caused by an exterior impact.

2,200 at union-sponsored Women Build Nations event in Seattle boost careerbuilding

The industry is experiencing a generational high market, and specialty contractors are reaping the benefits. But who will do all the work?

To reduce seismic risk to new tall buildings, San Francisco should develop regulations to address foundation and geotechnical issues.

Nov. 6 ballot measure would repeal 2017 gas tax pumping billions into transportation work

With much of north Florida’s engineering and construction community engaged in damage assessment and recovery following Hurricane Michael’s Oct. 10 strike on the Panhandle and points north, ENR sat down Oct. 16 with Jason Bird, resilience practice leader for Jacobs, for a talk about how engineers might lead the way forward.

World leader buys successful American pioneer Deepwater Wind for $510M

First hearing on actions by now-departed executives is set for Oct. 22

The Hollandse Kust Zuid 1 and 2 farms are expected to one day supply 700 to 750 MW of capacity, drawing from an estimated 60 to 130 turbines, depending on the kind of monopile-foundation wind technology installed.

A joint venture of Portugal’s Mota-Engil and South Africa-based engineering company Concor Holdings Ltd. has won a $118-million contract for the construction of South Africa’s longest-span cable-stayed suspension bridge.

Crews failed to relocate pressure-sensing lines from an old cast-iron distribution main during a mid-September Columbia Gas pipeline replacement, igniting a series of explosions and fires north of Boston, according to a preliminary report by federal investigators.

In an analysis of three cranes that collapsed in the Miami area on Sept. 10, 2017 as Hurricane Irma passed over Florida, the Occupational Health and Safety Administration found that while the cranes were set to “weathervane,” or spin freely in the wind, all three were a specific model whose jibs may have been vulnerable to turbulent wind vortexes.

Putting more sensors on a jobsite can tell you a lot about temperature, humidity, noise and vibration, but doing something useful with that data can be a daunting task.