May 2025

 Gerard A. Neumann Jr., 83, a former U.S. Navy Seabee officer who became, at age 38, CEO of family- owned New York City-based marine and sewer contractor Spearin, Preston & Burrows, died April 5, said a family obituary. He

The Trump administration has lifted an April 16 stop-work order for ongoing construction of the estimated $5-billion Empire Wind offshore wind project off New York, according to a May 20 announcement by its Norwegian developer, Equinor ASA. “Construction can now

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Downtown Portland, Maine might not just get one building designed by Safdie Architects, but two. The global architectural firm founded by Moshe Safdie proposed reimagining a four-acre area of open space with a retail pavilion and a 28-story hotel/residential

Highway construction workers remain vulnerable to work zone crashes as a result of distracted or speeding drivers, according to a new Associated General Contractors (AGC) national survey. State transportation agencies are exploring ways to increase safety awareness through pilot

In April, EarthCam released Control Center 9, the latest version of its suite of construction site camera and management software. At the same time, the company is moving beyond being a time-lapse image and site security platform to take

The recent triple fatality at a Bechtel LNG construction project in Port Arthur, Texas, prompted heartfelt comments from firm President and Chief Operating Officer Craig Albert. “I can’t begin to express the shock and grief we feel across Bechtel,”

The Colorado River was a fault line of near-tectonic political forces by the 1920s, as the seven states within its basin continued to grow in population. A 1922 compact allocated water rights from the river, but farmers in California’s

This 1925 cover image depicts a concrete mixing plant—one of three—for a vital project in downtown Chicago, in which South Water Street was transformed into Wacker Drive, a major multilevel street running along the Chicago River in the Loop. The

The Trump administration has proposed cutting U.S. Dept. of Energy base discretionary funding by 9.4% and that of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s by 54.5%. With planned cuts totaling billions of dollars, the two agency chiefs outlined their priorities