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	Chicago Plans $4B Urban Village Stantec to Acquire San Francisco's Anshen + Allen Architecture Firm Expanding Horizons: Analyzing the Balfour Beatty/Parsons Brinckerhoff deal Virginia Tech Student Wins Yéle Haiti Competition Reviving a Modest Masterpiece: The Trenton Bath House Fatalities Down, But Rate Stays Flat NY Approves New Neighbor for Empire State Building Diller Scofidio + Renfro to Design Broad Museum A Golden Anniversary for a Philip Johnson Museum Fluor, United Rentals Form Jobsite Logistics Partnership Load-Pier Test at St. Louis Bridge Sets World Record Reuse or Build New? Group to Gather Hard Environmental Data California Cools Off Capitol Complex With Thermal-Energy Tank Fed Probe Leads to Wolff’s Likely Exit From Berger All Systems Go for Vinoly’s $1.5B Domino Project in Brooklyn U.S. Wind Power Surge Likely To Continue, Say Scientists Lack of State Budget Affects $3 Billion in Projects, Caltrans Says Agency Unveils 30-Year Plan for Developing Chicago Area Caterpillar Compiles Short List of GCs for $426M Winston-Salem Plant Plans Unveiled to Expand Terminal 4 at JFK Airport July Construction Rebounds 7% Gutsy Builder Took A 'Quantum Leap' for Crane Safety Louis Kahn Synagogue Expansion Stirs Controversy Facebook Adds Expansion to Massive Data Center Under Construction U.S. Presses Case Against Berger Group Over Alleged Overbilling EPA Toolkit to Remove Red Tape for Green Projects Acquitted Rigger Wants His Licenses Back Rafael Viñoly's Design of Kennedy Institute Unveiled Fighting Fines for Fatal Blast, Contractor Cites Safety Record Preservationist Named Head of SCAD’s Architecture School Turner Regains Army Contract After Court Reverses GAO Ruling June Construction Slips 3% Deal Sends Tishman Construction Into AECOM’s Arms Finally, BP Advances Effort To Stop Leak U.S. Architecture Schools Announce Leadership Changes Virginia’s I-495 Expansion Fast-Tracked Thanks to D-B, Infusion of Private Capital Interview with Alain de Botton, Architecture of Happiness Author Naval Station Great Lakes Completes $770-Million Construction Program LBJ Freeway Financing Secured, Project to Start by Early 2011 Engineer Rejects N.Y. State's 'Sling Theory' in Rigger Trial Communication Breakdown Lifts Price of Tacoma Ramp Groundbreaking for First TIGER Project Construction Industry Loses 22,000 Jobs in June Manslaughter Trial Begins For New York Rigger $1.4-Billion South Texas Powerplant Both Praised and Damned Speedy Runway Paving Job Means $5 Million Bonus University Of Alabama Debuts Disaster Response Study Track Affordable Housing Goes Green in the Bronx EPA to Modify Regulations on Sewer Overflows May Construction Grows 3% Special Report: Gulf Oil Spill Piano Conceives a Respectful Addition to Kahn's Kimbell Masterpiece Kinks in Supply Chain Produce Road Paint Shortage Finalists for 2010 Aga Khan Award Announced NYC Skyscraper Is First U.S. Commercial Tower to Earn LEED Platinum 2010 Hurricane Season Will Be "Active to Extremely Active," Scientists Predict White House Picks Architect to Head Preservation Board Did BP Skip Approval for Platform Engineering Design? Stern's Museum for African Art Set to Open in 2011 Nuns Celebrate LEED Platinum Certification OSHA Recognizes NCCER Program To Certify Crane Operators An Experimental Early Work by Renzo Piano Threatened USGBC Says Feds Can Do More for Green Building Debate Over Radioactive Waste in Texas Gets Hot April Construction Falls 9% ENR Names the Top 400 Contractors Gulf Oil Spill: Industry Waits for Cleanup Call AIA Announces 18 Winners of 2010 Housing Awards Seven Teams Picked For $4 Bil in Guam Milcon Work Caltrans Realizes Big Savings in Construction Costs Due to Economic Downturn Clinic Made of Freight Containers Heads to Haiti Profile Rises for Small Projects as Construction Market Tightens Corps Speeds Up Permitting For Gulf Coast Cleanup Integrated-Project-Delivery Boosters Ignore Many Flashing Red Lights Green Design-Build Model Crafted for Buildings To Achieve Net-Zero Energy Use Feds Seek Energy-Efficient Building Projects U.S. DOT Seeks Changes in Disadvantaged-Business Rules EPA Stiffens Coal-Ash Rules, But Proposal Allows Recycling Nashville Begins to Assess Damage From Epic Flooding Interior Dept. OK's Nation's First Offshore Wind Project AIA's Effort to Eliminate Retainage Fee Pays Off USGBC Launches LEED-Neighborhood Development Worker Killed as Crane Boom Collapses Haiti's Plan Includes New Ports, Highways Archives of WTC-Architect Yamasaki Saved from Destruction Chinese Drywall Remediation Standard Already Evolving ENR Reveals the Top 500 Design Firms AIA's Committee on the Environment Announces Annual Awards Tour of U.S. Embassy in Haiti Shows Small Measures Paid Off Big Time Controversial Plans by Viñoly for Domino Sugar Plant Now on View Construction Groups Sue NY DOT Over Pay Freeze AGC Study Finds No Scientific Reason for Calif. Emission Rule John Carl Warnecke, "Kennedy's Architect," Dies March Construction Holds Steady Southern California Quake Damaged Treatment and Storage Infrastructure While Dubai Stumbles, Abu Dhabi Marches On Next Round of Federal Regulations Has Suppliers Retooling Clean Diesel Green-Infused Modular Classroom Targets 'Grid-Neutral' Status in School Construction Last Piece of L.A. Live Opens – Ritz-Carlton, Los Angeles NYC Unveils Sweeping Redevelopment Plan for Governors Island Florida Tribe Wins Ruling To Resume Everglades Construction Concrete Industry Fears Ruling May Stir Litigation Over Fly Ash Steven Holl on a Winning Streak Celebrated Architect Stirs Debate With Haiti Prefab House Idea Obama Signs Jobs Bill, With Highway-Transit Extension "Villa Libeskind" Takes Prefab to the Extreme Green Standard Efforts Merge February Construction Rises 5% AIA Announces 2010 Young Architect Award Winners Testwell CEO Tried To Kill Himself After Conviction Mayor Unveils Stimulus Plan in San Francisco January Construction Retreats 1% New Construction Starts in December Climb 5%; Annual Total for 2009 Drops 26% to $412 Billion Dubai Stands Tall as Skyscraper Debuts National Mall Plan Option Incorporates LEED Cintra-Led Team to Begin $2B North Texas Road Project November Construction Falls 9% October Construction Jumps 12% September Construction Slides 7% AIA Study: 2008 Billings Topped $44 Billion Housing Could Spark A Rebound in 2010 Leaky Libeskind Roof to Be Fixed at Last SOM Loses Top Architect to HOK Faulty Tower's Implosion Presents Many Challenges Who's To Blame for Faulty Foster Tower? Balfour Beatty to Pay $626 Million For Parsons Brinckerhoff Heinz Awards Highlight Environmental Leaders August Construction Rises 2% June Construction Retreats 7% The Top 250 Architecture Firms Gehry Trims Staff As Projects Hit Snags F&S Partners in Dallas Merges with SmithGroup May Construction Climbs 7% Brad Pitt Selects More Architects for "Make It Right" Project HUD and DOT Coordinating Efforts Nation's Largest New Public Transportation Project Moving Into Construction Phase Architects Plan Breathtaking New Skydeck for Sears Tower April Construction Slips 1% Peter Zumthor Wins 2009 Pritzker Prize Big Problems Continue With Drywall Made in China Top 10 Green Projects Named by AIA March Construction Improves 5 Percent February Construction Falls 8% Building in Cologne, Germany Collapses AIA Announces the Names of 112 New Fellows Federal Eco-Labeling Law Taking Shape Spanish-Led Consortium to Build $4-Billion Texas Freeway Project Architectural Billings Index Hits All-Time Low Gottfried House Earns Highest LEED for Homes Score to Date Healthcare Market Not Immune to Economic Malaise Virtual Design and Construction Users Seeking Better Collaborative Tools January Construction Slips 3% New Construction Starts in December Retreat 5%; Annual Total for 2008 Slides 15% to $543 Billion Herzog & de Meuron Designs HQ for Major Bank in Spain Obama Delivers Promise to Unions By Reversing Bush Labor Pact Ban The Economic-Stimulus Bill, Sector-by-Sector Analysis What Does Stimulus Plan Mean for A/E/C Industry? AIA Announces 2009 Honor Awards for Architecture USGBC Members Approve LEED 2009 Revisions Zaha Hadid Chosen to Design Vienna Library Louisiana Gets $1.5-Billion Loan From Feds for Hurricane-Protection System 'Less Restrictive' No-Damages-for-Delay Clause Still Vulnerable Layoffs Sweep Architecture Profession as Economy Worsens Obama's Education-Upgrade Pledge Could Mean Lots of School-Construction Work Prosecutor Charges Safety Manager, Two Others in Fatal N.Y. Construction Fire Shanghai Skyscraper Named "Best Tall Building" Chicago Takes the Lead in Green Hotels Madrid's City of Justice Starts to Take Shape Report: Concrete Outperforms Steel as Bridge Material Florida's Highway Wish List Totals Nearly $7 Billion For Architects, the Job Axe Starts to Fall Despite Sinking Economy, Work Begins on Super-Tall Shanghai Tower States Seek $136 Billion for Infrastructure In New Stimulus Package Students Design-Build LEED Platinum Art Center for Tornado Ravaged Town Is the Dubai Bubble Starting to Burst? Overwhelming Public Response Extends Crane Rule Comment Period OSHA Releases Fatality Numbers U.S. Green Building Council Pushes Obama to Act on Green Promises Renzo Piano’s Design for Kimbell Museum Revealed Architects Hit Hard by Financial Crisis Lawsuit Possible Over Cracks At $146-Million Tampa Project Michigan Building First to Earn Double LEED Platinum Certification Garage Collapse Contractor Points Finger at Engineer Shopping Malls Not Below Libeskind's "Dignity" After 30 Years, EPA Sets Tougher Airborne Lead Standard AIA To Release New IPD and Design-Build Documents With Financial Rescue Signed, Contractors Hope for a Revival Architect Calls for Sustainability "Nutrition" Labels House for War Veteran Designed by Yale Students Gehry Designs First Big Project For Toronto, His Hometown Deal to Privatize Midway May Pay for Chicago Projects Gilbane Builds $156 Million Discovery Tower in Downtown Houston September's Financial Market Turmoil August Construction Retreats 3% Citing Dire Trust Fund Picture, USDOT Calls for $8-Billion Infusion Olympic Village Takes LEED Gold Yale Taps Stern for Major Project HOK's Sports Design Unit Set To Split From Its Parent Firm Department of Energy Focuses on Net-Zero Commercial Buildings AIA and USGBC To Form a Strategic Alliance Tishman Manager Pleads Guilty to Embezzling $2.8 Million Studio Pei-Zhu Tapped for Museum for Iconic Chinese Artist Cities Mandate LEED But Not Certification Jerusalem's Signature Span Robert A.M. Stern Handily Wins 10th Annual Vincent Scully Prize Bentley and Autodesk Agree To Exchange Keys To Sharing of Data London Revs Up Construction for 2012 Summer Olympics World's Second-Longest Ocean Crossing Opens Midwest Floods Wreak Havoc on Architectural Landmarks Nation's First LEED Platinum Affordable Housing Built in Massachusetts NYC Crane Inspector Pleads Not Guilty Adaptive Reuse Build Local, Price Global Record reveals: Beijing Downturn in Chicago's Downtown May Construction Holds Steady Gehry Designs NYC's Tallest Residential Tower NRC Considering 15 Nuke Plant Apps California Pumps $271 Million Into Construction of Stem Cell Labs USGBC to Outsource LEED Certification Tight WTC Schedule Unveiled AIA Requires Sustainability in Continuing Education Gehry Downsizes Tower Design for Atlantic Yards Work Begins on London's Olympic Stadium National Trust Announces 11 Most Endangered Sites Contractors Subject to New Lead Paint Regulations Construction Starts for Houston CBD's First LEED Gold Building Penn Announces New Architecture Dean AIA Announces 2008 COTE Award Winners $1-Billion Jigsaw Puzzle Has Builder Modeling Supply Chains Federal 2009 Budget a Mixed Bag for Green Building BIM Companies Acquiring Energy Modeling Capabilities Study of Fees Indicates Project Type Doesn’t Matter Cement Consumption To Grow 43% by 2030 March Construction Slides 8% Jean Nouvel Wins 2008 Pritzker Prize Architects' Billings Down Sharply in Early 2008 L.A. Mayor Moves to Speed Building Project Approvals Young Carpenter a Victim of Miami Crane Accident The Sagaponac Effect: Modernist Subdivisions Multiply McCarthy Starts $115M GSU Research Laboratory February Construction Rises 2% With the Architect of the Capitol Slot Still Open, AIA Urges Action Stern Will Design Bush Library at SMU House Clears $17.6 Billion in Renewable-Energy Tax Breaks Atlantic City Planning $20 Billion in Projects High Perceived Cost of Green Persists, Says Survey Engineering Firm Plans Tower Twice as Tall as Burj Dubai January Construction Jumps 8% The Economy and Construction: Review of Recent Indicators, February 2008 Nouvel Designs Towering Slender Neighbor for MoMA Glasgow Officials Close Bridge After Cable Connector Snaps RK Stewart Leaving Gensler for Perkins + Will Suncor Expansion to Stretch Labor Force Kansas Town Rebuilding as the Greenest in America AIA Names Recipients of 2008 Young Architects Award Green Buildings Boast High Occupancy Rates December Construction Unchanged from Prior Month; Annual Construction Start Total for 2007 Slides 11% AIA Names Winners of 2008 Honor Awards Safety Board Finds I-35W Bridge Plates Too Thin Zaha Hadid to Design MSU's Broad Art Museum Materials Innovators Engage Cradle to Cradle Protocol Crane Mishap Kills One at Trump Site Ettore Sottsass, Elder Statesman of Italian Design, Dead at 90 Richard Meier's Atheneum Wins AIA's 25-Year Award North America's Largest PV Powerplant in Service Chipperfield Unveils St. Louis Museum Wing New Orleans Waterfront Plan Takes Shape CH2M Hill Founder Burke Hayes Dies at 95 Oscar Niemeyer Designs New Arts Center in Spain New Gensler Office Earns LEED-Silver Certification USGBC to Revamp LEED Rating System Most A/E/C Spending Measures Pass on Election Day Clinton: Sustainability “Most Important” Cause Today I.M. Pei Designs $30,000/Night Suite for Four Seasons NYC I-35W Replacement Set to Start Pile Driving HOK Sport’s Design for the London 2012 Olympic Stadium Unveiled Conferees Hike Road Funds, Add $1 Billion for Bridges David Adjaye's MCA/Denver Opens LEED-for-Homes to Launch at Greenbuild AIA Forms Running Far Ahead of Rivals Utah Embraces Accelerated Construction Method Lifecycle Building Challenge Winners Announced Construction Slide Could Continue in 2008 21 Chicago Landmarks Honored for Preservation
	Labor Panel Okays Union Banner Protests Construction Jobless Rate Improves Slightly in August Surge Busters Delivering in New Orleans Construction Methods of the Ancient Inca Offer Sustainable Lessons Qatar Building Urban Center With Doha Development Plan New Seismic System May Debut in Turkey Investors Sought for African Rail and Port In Maine, Tidal Power Shows More Promise At Shanghai Expo, Finnish Pavilion Provides a Stunning Green Model India Games Construction Mired in Problems Port of Miami Expansion Includes New Rail Link OSHA: We Won’t Delay Crane-Safety Rules Houston Firm Floats Power to Venezuela Consultant CEOs Cite Energy Independence and Transportation as Key Engineering Challenges Washington State Contract To Remove Dams on Elwha River Awarded for $26.9 Million Nevada Geothermal Project Moves Forward At 330 Meters, New High-Rise Is Beijing’s Tallest Building Some ARRA Categories Near 100% Obligation Newly Approved Funds Will Go for Border Security ARRA Highway Project Volume Edged Higher in July Making 1 + 1 = 3 The Top 225 International Contractors Crackdown Adds To Contractor Perils Chicago Plans $4B Urban Village Fatalities Down, But Rate Stays Flat Fluor, United Rentals Form Jobsite Logistics Partnership Divers Go Deep To Fix Controls At Denver’s Cheesman Dam Nature Takes Over Demolition of Outdated Oregon Dam Upstate New York Project Will Harness Flywheel Power Miami Airport Builders Brace For Smooth 2011 Landing Oklahoma Worker Crushed by Scraper In Load Test, Mississippi River Bridge Breaks World Record Rapetti Speaks: ‘They Made Me Out To Be a Murderer’ EPA Delays Until October New Powerplant Smog Rules DOE Seeks New Sites To Store FutureGen 2.0 Emissions Texas OKs First $250 Million Of $2 Billion in Road Contracts Israel Halts Light-Rail Franchise Over Gaps in Financial Terms Texas School’s Historic Stadium Gets $105-Million Rehab in Fall No Liability in URS $52-Million Payoff in I-35 Collapse Suits PBGC Says Multi-employer Plans’ Deficit Likely To Rise FRA Pushes To Spend High-Speed-Rail Funds Baucus Seeks U.S.-Canada Talks On Lumber Pricing Penn State Selected To Lead Green-Buildings ‘Hub’ Sacramento Campus Warms to Green Central Plant Soaring Span Will Receive Seismic Upgrade Bipartisan Transport Experts Want Change Oklahoma Approves Record Road Budget Probe Leads to Wolff’s Likely Exit From Berger S. Florida Water Management District Commits to Land Deal, Not Reservoir ConsensusDOCS Builds Momentum Shaw Expands Nuclear Power Work in China BP Is Target of New Scrutiny for Refinery Safety Laborers Rejoin AFL-CIO, But Unity Not Total Applications Pour In For New DOT Rail Grants Caterpillar Shifts Production Into Overdrive United Rentals, Fluor AMECO Venture Targets Gulf Coast California Budget Fiasco Endangers $3 Billion Worth of Construction Work Electrical Energy Consumption and Forecasting Information Model Effort for Facilities Gears Up Long Beach, Calif., Approves $1-Billion Bridge Replacement Project Clean Coal Viable, Administration Says EPA Seeks More Time To Fix ‘Flaw’ In 2009 Regulation Applications Pour In For New DOT Rail Grants The Prize Predicament Gutsy Builder Took A 'Quantum Leap' Rapetti Wants His Licenses Back After Tishman Acquisition, AECOM Buys Two More Firms Fighting Fines for Fatal Blast, Contractor Cites Safety Record Turner Regains Army Contract After Court Reverses GAO Ruling Gulf Coast Cleanup Employs Multiple Tools and Techniques Atlanta’s Global Gateway Expansion Nears Final Two-Year Leg of $6-Billion Journey CII Highlights Safety Studies, Broadens Outreach Efforts U.S. Wind Power Surge Likely To Continue, Say Scientists Point Clouds and 3D Modeling for the Masses Capture Information Anywhere Anticipating Risk To Avoid Disaster DOE Scraps FutureGen Project For Retrofit CO2-Capture Plan Proposed Comity Rule Raises Hackles in Washington State Settlement of Dispute Opens Way for $800-million Terminal Incentives Lure New Cat Plant Construction Unemployment Slips to 17.3% in July Senate To Revisit Oil-Spill/Energy Bill in Fall EPA: New Rule Limits Mercury Emmissions From Cement Kilns Highways: Report Spotlights Formulas Fourth Woman in Court’s History Confirmed Reaction to Final Review of Big Guam Milcon Buildup DOE Abandons FutureGen Plan Contractor Contests OSHA Fine In Fatal Powerplant Explosion In U.K., Offshore Wind Power’s Rising Tide Tempered by Wave of Rising Costs China’s First Major Offshore Wind Farm Comes Online Offshore Wind Turbine Design Pushes Forward China Inks Deal for Kariba Dam Upgrade Water-Starved Oman Collects Monsoon Fog China Megaproject Contract Coming Soon California Launches $3.3-Billion Health-Care Project Work on Israel’s $1-Billion Line Progresses Guam Buildup Final Review Sees Impacts San Francisco Bay Bridge Tower Takes Shape Denver Airport Weighs Rail-Span Options Federal Action Needed for Comprehensive Reform, Sources Say Mosque Project Near Ground Zero Advances Corps Green Lights $1.4-Billion Expansion Of Power Transmission Network in Maine Housing Rebound Falters U.S. and Chinese Firms Agree to Develop Tidal Power Construction Under Way on Ferronickel Plant Construction Industry Gets Ready to Implement Crane Safety Rule Obama Signs Two-Month FAA Extension Small-Business Measure Stalls House Votes for Tougher Offshore Drilling Standards Global Design Giant W.S. Atkins Plans New Foray into U.S. Market Running On Empty The Top 200 Environmental Firms Public-Private Partnerships Need an Educated Public MoDOT Moves To Replace Failed Kansas City Highway Ramp Beloved Boston Crossing Gets Surgery and Makeover Developer Seeks Rating For Recycled Utah Bridge Architects, Planners Host a Quirky Public Outreach Forum Judge Clears Rigger, Finger-Pointing Continues PCL Acts To End Financial Disclosure Heir to EMCOR CEO Talks About Bid Wars, Acquisitions Tempe Had Plan To Replace Inflatable Tubes That Failed Iowa Dam Breach Drains 9-Mile Lake, But No Lives Lost Clouds and iPads Have Inventors Rolling Out Tools Power Sector Limbers Up Construction Still Struggling at 2010’s Midpoint With Cap Holding, Crews Prep Attempt to Kill Spewing Well California Project Goes Forward Despite Loss of Stimulus Funds Congress Approves Funds For Work in Haiti and Afghanistan New Manhattan, Bronx Span Floats Into Place Critics See Ways To Improve Bridge Program FTA Pegs Capital Needs: $77.7 Billion Senate Democrats Propose Scaled-Back Bill Legislation: Senators Roll Out Freight Transport Bill Artist's Workshop Gathers High-Speed Rail Ideas Senate Democrats to Pursue Scaled-Back Energy Bill Sheer Innovation The Top 200 International Design Firms Why Daniel Tishman Sold to AECOM Researchers Identify Key Trends Driving Megafirm Creation Schwing Exits Chapter 11 Pumped Up About Future Deal Ends Strike In the Midwest Social Media Moving Quickly From Friendship to Business Cloud Computing Makes the Grade Oregon Project Is Case Study for ‘Green’ Road Standards Geotechnical Piles Anchor Unstable California Slopes San Jose Sky-Hub Expansion Making a Smooth Landing Southwest Solar Warming Up With Arizona Power Project Answers in Your Pocket: Next Generation Power Analyzere Traveling Light: Palm-Sized Pocket Projector Hardened Elegance: The iPhone Gets Dolled Up Major Land Acquisition Adds To Everglades Restoration Program Stantec To Acquire WilsonMiller New $452-Million, 255-MW Plant Gets Started in California Well Cap Is Holding for Now As Final Kill Is Planned Israel Plans New Airport Missouri DOT Searches for Reasons Behind Ramp Collapse Industry Awaits Dodd-Frank Impact on Credit The White House Reports Gains: ARRA Jobs, Outlays SAFETEA-LU: DOT Holds Final ‘Town Hall’ for New Bill Interim Regulation: Contractors Required To Report Execs’ Pay Gulf Oil Well Cap Holds, Despite Leaks Financial Regulation Bill Heads to White House A Private Consortium is Fast-Tracking a Beltway of Billions Infrastructure Investors Are Willing To Pound the Pavement Digital Master of Ceremonies Directs 140-Ring Circus of Action Finally, BP Advances Effort To Stop Leak EPA Proposes New Limits On Powerplant Emissions Lasting Solution Eludes Team Facing Out-of-Plumb Bents Communication Breakdown Lifts Price of Tacoma Ramp CPSC Orders Repairs On Risky Light Poles Across U.S. Engineer Rejects N.Y. State’s ‘Sling Theory’ in Rigger Trial ‘A Shot Heard Around the World’ Study Says Surveys May Have Shown CityCenter Troubles A Lot of Head-Scratching Surrounds Video of Girder’s Fall Hawaiian Market Recovery Brings Dormant Project to Life Stalemate in Chicago Strike Delays Key Local Projects Clampdown on Gas Venting Urged Following Fatal Blasts Water Seepage Delays Nevada’s ‘Third Straw’ Water Tunnel U.S. Interior Dept. Proposes New ‘Narrower’ Drilling Rules Engineers Without Borders-USA Selected for 2010 Turner Prize FY11 Appropriations Move at Snail’s Pace Streetcar, Bus Projects Share $293 Million Industry Groups Criticize Possible Lead-Paint Proposal DOT Awards $293 Million For Streetcar, Bus Projects EPA Proposes New Limits On Powerplant Emissions Take a Tour of the World's Megaprojects Finland, Sweden Approve New Plants Report: Another Bad Year for Construction, But Spending Will Rebound in 2011 Brazil’s Foz do Chapecó Hydro UnitNear Completion, Ready for Operation Israeli Firm To Double China Desalination Plant’s Capacity African Wind Project Poised To Begin English Crossing Features Overlapping Spans India Aims High With Himalayan Road Links On the Land Side, Venice Flood Protection Shored by Sheet Piles Liebherr Builds Drive-Line Factory in Mexico China Cement Maker Signs S. Africa Deal Professor Uses Bacteria To Make Eco-Friendly Bricks Brazilian Government Scrambles To Get Fast Train Project Out To Bid After Initial Delay India Seeks Investors for Road Expansions Kazakhstan Opens 150-m-Tall ‘Tent’ It Claims Is the World’s Tallest Tensile Structure French Contractor Technip To Pay $338 Million To Settle Nigeria LNG Project Bribery Allegations New Rhode Island Law Gives Planned Wind Farm A Big Boost To Gain Power-Purchase Contract Construction Unemployment Rate Flat As Industry Loses 22,000 Jobs in June Senate Committees Move on Oil-Spill Bills Spending Bill With Post-Earthquake Aid Heads Back to Senate for New Vote Justice Dept. Challenges Arizona Statute Senate Vote Is Next for Financial Regulation Bill Federal Recall Issued For Stadium Light Poles Construction Jobless Rate Flat; Industry Loses 22,000 Jobs in June Congress Passes 14th Short Aviation Extension Interactive Project Delivery Critical to Success of Serpentine Cliff-Hanger The Top 500 Design Firms The Top Green Design Firms Manslaughter Trial For New York Rigger University of Alabama Debuts Disaster Response Study Track Scientists Eye Tropic Storms As Oil Spreads Across Gulf Speedy Runway Paving Job Means Millions in Bonuses Virginia Takes Steps To Propel Two Transportation Projects Public-Private Deal Approved For Denver Commuter Rail Court OKs Columbia U.’s Controversial Expansion Seattle School, Contractor Get Chemistry Lesson South Texas Powerplant Plan Both Praised and Damned Higher Ed Sets Power Goals URS and CH2M Hill in Bidding War for U.K. Engineering Firm Positive Signs Start To Pop Up in Market Statistics Seattle Sues Contractor Over Delayed Sewer Project Fast-Track Process Hopes To Replace Bridge in Two Years L.A. Begins Major Extension Financial Bill May Tighten Construction Credit High Court Expands Eligibility for Patent Protections Pension Plans Get Help, ‘Extenders’ Bill Blocked Haiti: Senate Report Finds Evidence Rebuilding Is ‘Stalled’ Pension-Plan Relief Bill Is Signed Into Law DOT Sets Aug. 6 Deadline For New Rail-Grant Applications Getting Down To Business With Stimulus Spending Running Out Recession Will Keep Grip on Costs Industry Firms Begin To Believe The Worst May Soon Be Over Recession Squeezes Salaries Weak Demand Undercuts Prices Soaring Asphalt and Fuel Prices Spike Highway Paving Costs Widening Huey P. Long Precast Bridge Segments Are Shaken and Stirred in Lab Labor Dept. Considering Worker-Classification Rule Student Teams Strive To Build Best Emergency Shelter Investigations Expand List Of BP’s Drill-Program Failures Mentoring Group Benefits Students U.S. Highway, Safety Officials Note Trends at Industry Forum Sewer Upgrades in Florida Keys Need More Funding Planning To Punish Structures With Rain, Hail, Wind and Fire Variety of State Energy Codes Makes Compliance Daunting Open-Shop Wants Lending Restored Judge Halts Drilling Moratorium, While U.S. To Probe BP Drill Site Toyota Will Finish Construction Of Halted Mississippi Plant U.S. Firm Wins Job To Design Landmark China Development CDM and Wilbur Smith Confirm Corporate-Link Discussions California Agencies Start Work on $328-Million Connector Job Embassy Program Charts New Directions High Court Deals a Blow To the NLRB Senate Aims for New Vote on ‘Extenders’ Package EPA Wants To Revive Polluter Tax Labor Dept. Mulls Proposing Worker-Classification Rule Redesign Launches Canadian Crossing Nigeria Secures Chinese Agreement for Refineries Rail Projects Proliferate in Denmark Hong Kong's Booming Top 10 Massive Indian Corridor Work To Start Soon Key African Maritime Project Is Delayed Canadian Crews Control Runaway Piles Despite Cuts, London Station Will Be Built Peru Project Spans One River, Three Decades Global Opportunities Grow for U.S. Architects Non-Profit Study on USGBC’s LEED Ranking System: Weak on Human Health Tibetan Teacher Claims China Plans Massive Dam Indian Runways Examined After Fatal Crash Michigan Measure Would Support Second Detroit Span Dredge Armada Converging on Louisiana Bouygues of France Starts $1-Billion Miami Port Tunnel Water Filtration Unit Is Off-Grid Performer Temporary Stadium From Kit of Reused Parts Earthquake Code Presentations Go Live Samsung Chips in $3.6-Bil Boost to Texas European Central Bank Headquarters Project Under Way SNC-Lavalin Chosen To Build Chemical Complex in Jordan Major Sustainable Energy Initiative Announced Stalemate Over Country’s Largest Dam Project Ends U.S. Energy Dept. Earmarks $760 Million To Fund New Geothermal and CO2-Capture Projects Tennessee Officials Fine TVA $11 Million Over 2008 Coal-Ash Pollution Incident Obama Taps Former Federal Prosecutor To Head Minerals Management Service Outlook Still Murky for Energy Bills Taxes: Industry Groups Seek To Strike ‘S-Corp.’ Proposal From Senate Bill Seeking New Directions By Raising the Bar on CM Hospital Owner's Digital Mandate Gives Builders A Dose of Reality Top 100 CM-for-Fee Firms & Top 50 Program Management Firms Unemployment at Record Levels Despite Seasonal Declines Safety Concerns Close Historic Baltimore Monument Nevada Toughens Safety Laws In Response to Work Fatalities Industry Associations Launch Career Website in Water Niche Housing Rebound Masks Non-Residential Work Drop Oil Spill May Give Senate Energy Bill a Boost EPA Toughens Standards For SO2 Emissions EPA Infrastructure Cost Estimate Climbs Economic Worries Grow With Oil Spill New Process Shows Dollar Value of Building Green Public Firms Tell Wall Street Of Return to ‘Rational’ Markets Long Setup for Fast Implosion of Second-Largest Cooling Tower Coal Power for Mississippi, But $2.9-Billion Cost Cap Set Transportation Secretary Promises Diversity Efforts FAA Chief Touts Satellite-Based Revamps, Multimodalism Fiscal Squeeze To Continue in 2011 National Inspector Exam To Come in '11 Despite Bumpy Bid Process, Texas Span Work Is Under Way Rating Controversy Heats Up Test Pontoon Prepares Team For Real-Time Construction CEO John Fish Has 'Big, Audacious' Goals For Suffolk Construction The Top 100 Construction Management-At-Risk and Design-Build Firms Spill In Gulf Brings New Limits Tunnel-Boring Machines Are On the Move in New York City Maglev Proponents Demand Answers, Money From Feds Indian Tribes Put $3 Billion In Stimulus Funds To Work Work Starts on Portugal-Spain Link, But Bridge Bids Delayed Gov. Crist Circumvents Raid On Florida Highway Trust Fund