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Japan giant's EV battery plant will be the third in Ontario—in addition to a Volkswagen facility in St. Thomas to start construction in 2025 and a Stellantis-LG plant in Windsor under way since last year.

The point of contention in EPA-issued mandates is the technical and economic viability of carbon capture and storage technology. 

The funding agreement with the U.S. Commerce Dept. was contingent on Micron Technologies' recently announced pledge to invest $50 billion in the plants over the next five years.

State officials begin moving ahead with rebuild plans.

Dublin Airport is pursuing a $1.8-billion capital investment program digitally, with more than 140 projects being delivered using the Autodesk Construction Cloud platform.

Now 10 years old, Construction Safety Week has evolved. What at first was a national industry stand-down to emphasize safety compliance has grown into a coordinated day of training across the country and advocacy of a cause that reflects changing ideas about the role of workers to shape how construction tasks are done and to recognize jobsite hazards.

Hamakua Energy LLC is considering repowering its 60-MW natural gas-fired, combined-cycle power plant in Honoka’a, converting it to biomass-fired and constructing a battery energy storage system at the site.

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At a 1,000-acre site in Ohio, Intel Corp. (No. 1) is building a pair of semiconductor fabrication plants, or fabs, that promise to be part of an influx of new domestic production of leading-edge chips.

Developer Enterprise Products Partners has not begun to seek contractors for the deepwater Sea Port Oil Terminal off Freeport and related pipelines.

Utiiity firm, ranked No. 12 on ENR's Top 425 Owners list, begins building in May its 2.6-GW giant, set to be the largest offshore wind project in the U.S. when finished.

Sound Transit, serving the Seattle metropolitan area, will debut the first 6.5-mile segment of its $3.67-billion East Link Extension April 27, launching light-rail service along an eight-station route between South Bellevue and the Redmond Technology Center, both east of the city.

In March, Hines broke ground on its FAT Food Art Technology Village project, an 850,000-sq-ft mixed-use development in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Construction-in-progress spending climbs higher, with Top 25 firms accounting for 60%, as economists predict a megaproject boom will compound resource challenges.

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The Chicago Bears want to build a $4.6 million domed stadium on the city of Chicago's Museum Campus. 

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce plans a legal challenge to the rule; a construction group is weighing a similar action.

Report cites continued inflation, as well as "supply chain issues and other economic challenges" as reasons for the downward trend.

The U.S. Interior Dept. also added a sector push in announcing a schedule to lease up to 12 new U.S. offshore wind project development sites through 2028.