Architecture

A plan to build a $1.3-billion arena for the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers is advancing after city officials voted 12-5 on Dec. 19 to approve the plan.The proposed arena, called 76 Place at Market East, would be built in Center

Brazil’s Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira Bridge partially collapsed Dec. 22, killing at least one person and leaving 14 others missing. One other person has been rescued.The center span of the 533-m-long reinforced concrete bridge fell at about 2:40 p.m.

California utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric has gained a conditional loan guarantee in recent days of up to $15 billion from the U.S. Energy Dept. to upgrade hydroelectric facilities and expand and modernize state clean energy transmission infrastructure—a

In November, Athens, Ohio, officials sent nearly $722,000 to a bank account they believed was set up by its contractor, Pepper Construction, to receive payment for its work on a fire station headquarters. The request was actually a sophisticated

California officials recently selected a design-build team of Turner Construction Co. with DGA Architects for their $158-million Southern Region Emergency Operations Center, the contractor announced.The news operations center, part of the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (OES), would complement

ENR correspondent Peter Reina took a journey into the Chernobyl exclusion zone in eastern Ukraine in 2008 to see construction of a new enclosure over the nuclear power reactor that was destroyed in a 1986 explosion.Probably the most dangerous

Six New England states have become the first in the U.S. to collectively and proactively launch a longer range push for new power transmission projects to relieve critical capacity gaps in the region—asking grid operator ISO New England to