Category: Engineering

Vulnerability of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore to a vessel collision was nearly 30 times above the acceptable risk threshold for critical or essential bridges when it was struck last year by the disabled container vessel M/V Dali, the…

China is doubling down on more coal-fired power after a decade-long push toward renewable energy, with officials revealing their approval of a huge amount of new capacity ordered up last year. Construction of plants to produce an estimated 94.5…

Concluding that the nonprofit group Greenpeace initiated defamation, trespassing and other illegal actions by protestors opposed to the Dakota Access Pipeline, a North Dakota jury has awarded more than $660 million in damages to Energy Transfer…

The $1.4-billion modernization of a concourse at the world’s busiest passenger airport reached the halfway point last month, with the tenth of 19 planned modules moved into place at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL). Over…

Chicago is asking all of its contractors, including primes on construction projects, to cut 3% off the cost of signed contracts and invoices for the work sent to the city over the next 12 months. 

The letter, which was emailed to contractors the…