Bill for tunnel repairs after Calif. tanker crash: $16.5 million

California transportation officials hope to get a fire-damaged tunnel repaired between October and Christmas, but the sting of the $16.5 million repair tab may not fade that soon.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 28, 2013

EPA pushes on toward potentially troublesome ozone standards

Buoyed by a recent court decision on proposed air-quality standards, the federal government is working on how states can implement rules that could seriously affect construction equipment.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 28, 2013

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Israeli road-improvement project: Build a bridge, but mind the antiquities

Not only does the state-owned Israeli road company have a tight deadline for improvements to the nation's main highway, but the job includes a bridge that cannot disturb an ancient military campground below.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 28, 2013

Project's challenge is to rip a road through rock in Maui

The island of Maui does not have a lot of room for easy road-building, so a bypass had to go the hard way—literally, through hundreds of cubic yards of very hard basalt.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 27, 2013

Optimism fails to make Kansas City urban retail site a reality

Kansas City, Mo., had high hopes that replacing 60 homes and businesses with a multi-use called Citadel Plaza, but all it has now is vacant lots in a depressed neighborhood.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 27, 2013

Hospital, budget overrun, contractor wants out: It's the 'VA Story'

In a case reminiscent of a Florida dispute, the contractor for a Veterans Affairs hospital being built in Denver says it wants to quit because there won't be enough money to finish the job.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 27, 2013

Ontario engineers: Standards, not client's wishes, should drive inspections

No one took an in-depth look at the damage from ongoing leaks in the roof of a mall in Elliot Lake, Ontario, because the owner could not afford extensive repairs that might have prevented a fatal collapse.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 27, 2013

Global market sometimes a harsh teacher for Chinese contractors

Taking on contracts outside China has put contractors in some difficult places, sometimes because they are the focus of local attacks on their projects and facilities.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 27, 2013

Serious injury to worker in NYC construction accident

A construction worker was seriously hurt when he somehow wound up in a hole at a site in Brooklyn, fire officials said.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 26, 2013

Macrofiber mix-ins offer benefits for concrete slab work

Contractors are finding that macrofibers, mixed at much higher dosage levels than microfibers traditionally get, distribute evenly and improve several characteristics of concrete.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 26, 2013

Around D.C., walkable retail replacing malls as destinations

One of the developers of LEED for Neighborhood Development sees the rise of "town center" districts consigning indoor malls to the dust heap.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 26, 2013

Construction gets separate treatment as silica-dust rules released

OSHA is inviting comments on silica-dust control rules that would address construction as an industry separate from the rest of the regulated community.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 26, 2013

Planned power plant in Maryland would spawn 700-800 construction jobs

There's good news for the commercial construction sector in southern Maryland: A Dallas-based investment company called Panda Power Funds says it is going to build a power plant there.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 26, 2013

Chicago Bears' corporate HQ and practice facility gets new look

When the clock ran out on the 2012-13 NFL season, Mortenson Construction kicked off work on renovations to the Chicago Bears' corporate and practice facilities outside Chicago.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 26, 2013

$100M mixed-use development underway in Colo.

250 Columbine will contain stores, offices and residential condos, and is expected to be completed by 2015 at the latest.

By Nicole Wrona • Aug. 26, 2013

Expect new electric van, pickup options in 2014

Utah-based VIA Motors says it will bring electric power to light trucks next year, offering modified Chevrolet Express cargo vans and Silverado pickups.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 22, 2013

Rate of accidental deaths is up, raises questions

Federal figures on workplace fatalities have members of the construction industry scratching their heads because both the raw number of fatal accidents and the rate of fatalities went up in 2012.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 22, 2013

Rehab equips warehouse docks with windowed doors, offers flexible office layouts

Between a rail line and a river, Freight's office space comes from a run-down warehouse building in what was industrial Denver.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 22, 2013

Standards for managing BIM expectations emerge in final form

After taking comments on a draft, the BIMForum is out with standards designed to help construction professionals across disciplines understand what to expect from models at various stages of projects.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 22, 2013

A measure of recession: How old are the pickups on the roads?

You can see one sign of the U.S. recession every time you drive down the road—or perhaps look in the parking lot—light-duty trucks in the U.S. are getting older.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 21, 2013

BIM is critical to Skanska's green commitment

The company—famous quitting the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over opposition to LEED—has been using building information planning for a decade.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 21, 2013

Contractors' work backlog rising, but the news isn't all positive

Good reason for optimism still comes in the context of weak U.S. economic growth.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 21, 2013

It was a tough quarter for several engineering and construction companies

Stock analysts found several publicly traded companies' figures disappointing—and even good results to be so-so.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 21, 2013

An engineer considers the ethical demand for sustainability

An associate professor of engineering at Clemson uses a new pedestrian bridge on the campus as the subject of thinking about an engineer's professional responsibility.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 21, 2013

Mechanic: Lift was being misused when fatal tip happened

A worker died in Canada in 2011 when a lift tipped with him in the basket, and a mechanic told a coroner's inquest recently that an alarm appeared to have been blocked.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 20, 2013