Port of Long Beach Reaches Tentative $4.6B Lease

AGC Mounts Push for Public Spending

Congress will get pressure to put serious funding into highway, bridge and transit projects.

Preconstruction

Careful collaboration before shovels hit dirt is key to a successful project, experts say.

CBRE Beefs Up Orlando Land Services Group With Disney Vet

David Pace says he is after mixed-use opportunities.

LEED Puts the "Gold" in Riverside Golden Arches

A McDonald's restaurant in Riverside, Calif., was recently awarded LEED Gold certification

OKA Powell-designed Facility at Texas A&M Bryan Campus

Skanska USA Building and BOKA Powell LLC announced the completion of a 130,000-square-foot, clinical building.

Tampa Streamlining Online Permitting System

The city is getting a fully automated system to handle building permits.

Industry Challenges Connecticut’s Suit Over Defective Construction Work

The industry wants Connecticut's Supreme Court to keep the state from using a 13th-century legal doctrine about defective work on state jobs.

$1.6B Redevelopment Moves Forward for Downtown Quincy, Mass.

Street-Works and The Beal Cos. are committed to drive the 20-block project.

Centerline Infuses $2M Into Tallahassee Student Housing

The student housing refis were attractive because leases have 12-month terms and property management rents on a per-bed basis.

Las Vegas 'Theme Park' Brings Bulldozing to the Masses

Visitors operate Caterpillar D5 track-type bulldozers or CAT 315CL hydraulic excavators in a five-acre sandbox.

'Pulse' Items for Week Ending Jan. 23

Bids and contracts as compiled by Engineering News Record

Building Trades Rap Obama for Pipeline Decision

An alliance of construction unions is not happy with Keystone XL delay.

The 15 Most Influential Tweeters in American Housing

Urban Land magazine compiled a list of the most influential people on Twitter in the housing industry.

Taking Integrated Project Delivery to New Extremes

For the building of Sutter Medical Center, Castro Valley, the team was 10 contractors and the client.

Risk Mitigation Ought to Be Bigger Part of Construction Planning

Builders are well aware of project risks, but fewer look at how to mitigate them.

Commercial Property Sales Plunge

Jitters over the European debt crisis and stagnant office rents contributed to a drop of more than 40% in sales volume in Manhattan's commercial real-estate market during the last quarter of 2011, according to a new report.

Chinese Media Aiming High

Four major Chinese media companies are expanding their presence in New York City as they lay the groundwork to begin competing on a global stage.

Westport Picks Up Scottsdale Financial Center II

The acquisition is the investment manager's second Phoenix-area property.

Mitsui Fudosan Takes 80% Stake in D.C.’s Homer Building

Mitsui Fudosan America Inc. bought into the office property a few blocks from the White House.

Brookdale Acquires 1.4 MSF Dallas Office Complex

Brookdale Investors Six L.P. has just added 1.4 million square feet of Class A office space to its portfolio with the acquisition of The Towers at Williams Square in Irving, Tex.

Suffolk Finishes Hospital's Progressive Operating Suite

Suffolk Construction recently completed the multimillion-dollar, state-of-the-art Advanced Multimodality Image Guided Operating (AMIGO) suite at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH).

Mid-Continent Tower Wins '25 Year' Award from AIA Eastern Oklahoma

The Mid-Continent Tower in Tulsa, Okla. got the award from the Eastern Oklahoma Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).

535 Madison Ave. Gets LEED Gold

The 535 Madison office building in midtown Manhattan has struck LEED Gold with its renovations.

MetLife Buys Chicago Tower from LYND

The  249-unit EnV building is know for its distinctive design.

Crossbeam Begins Development on 270 Units

The project in Mira Loma, Texas, is the company's first commercial development.