Construction Economics for March 17, 2025
The 60th annual Award of Excellence celebration will take place in New York City, March 27, 2025. Three award programs will be wrapped into one exciting day, recognizing the 2024 Best of the Best winning projects, the Top 25
Senate Passes Spending Bill, Averting Government Shutdown
The U.S. Senate voted mostly along party lines 54-46 late on March 14 to pass a spending bill known as a continuing resolution, which will fund the federal government for the rest of its fiscal year ending Sept. 30.
Massive Monoliths Provide Support for Tennessee River Lock Rebuild
A $1.5-billion project to double the length of the Kentucky Lock on the Tennessee River—an expansion project in western Kentucky 25 years in the making—has reached a milestone with construction and installation of the final structural monoliths that form
Are New York Construction Workers Safer? Depends on How Your Count
On the afternoon of November 6 2023, Francisco Lumbreras, 52, was working for a site preparation contractor in the Bronx applying grease with a grease gun to a fitting located in the back of a ready-mix deliver truck. He
Tennessee Picks Kiewit for $787M Mississippi River Bridge Replacement
Kiewit Infrastructure South Co. will lead the construction of a $787.5-million replacement of the Interstate 55 bridge crossing the Mississippi River between Tennessee and Arkansas at Memphis. The project, also dubbed America’s River Crossing, will replace the existing 75-year-old
From the Archives: The Fight to Racially Integrate the US Construction Industry
The structure of the U.S. construction industry in 1960 could be compared to a stone-walled bastion. Union locals had ironclad control over their recruitment process, which was steeped in nepotism and cronyism. Contractors, dependent on unions for their labor
Tampa Bay Rays Withdraw from $1.3B Ballpark Plan
Major League Baseball’s Tampa Bay Rays are withdrawing from a plan to construct a $1.3-billion ballpark, citing hurricane impacts to the existing Tropicana Field and other factors, leaving the new stadium and a related mega-development in limbo. Stuart Sternberg,
Why the Expiring Tax Break for Engineers Must Be Renewed
The section of the federal tax code known as 199a will expire at the end of 2025 unless Congress approves an extension. Its passage in 2017 represented one of the most important lobbying victories claimed by the American Council