Ramboll Group recorded its highest ever operating profit in 2016, recording a year-on-year rise of 27% to achieve $85.3m
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Month: March 2017
Pulse: Project News for the Week of March 13, 2017
Project News from Dodge Data & Analytics
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Telehandler: High Capacity at Full Height
Powered by a 107-hp diesel engine and a three-speed transmission, the SJ1256 TH telehandler has a maximum lift height of 56 ft.
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The Bayonne Bridge's New and Higher Road Deck
When drivers began using two new lanes of the Bayonne Bridge between Staten Island and New Jersey last month, they crossed not only the Kill Van Kull waterway but also a nexus between a historic engineering past and a modern engineering present.
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States Face Transportation Funding Gaps
While top state transportation officials look and listen for hints about President Trump’s promised, still unreleased infrastructure plan, they are working to cope with more-immediate funding issues.
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Consultant STV Snags New York MTA Chief Prendergas
Thomas F. Prendergast, who stepped down on Jan. 30 as chairman and CEO of New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), has joined consulting firm STV, also based there, as executive vice president and chief strategic officer, the firm said on March 1.
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Higher Manslaughter Penalties Sought Against Employers
Manslaughter charges against a Boston drain company are reinvigorating efforts to increase penalties for firms convicted of manslaughter in Massachusetts.
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Construction Productivity Slips in U.S. and Rises in Africa and China
Efforts to improve lagging construction productivity have largely failed, notably in the U.S., but skills shortages and increasing constraints on migration likely will inflate pay and force productivity improvements across the globe, according to a recent construction-industry survey and forecast by the McKinsey Global Institute.
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Where Construction Productivity Lags and Grows
Efforts to improve lagging construction productivity have largely failed, notably in the U.S., but skills shortages and increasing constraints on migration likely will inflate pay and force productivity improvements across the globe, according to a recent construction-industry survey and forecast by the McKinsey Global Institute.
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Which Firms Are Interested Vendors on Trump's Border Wall Plan?
Easing up slightly on the gas pedal, the Trump administration has delayed until at least early May the award of design-build contracts for the multibillion-dollar southern border wall, even as interest mounts regarding the massive but controversial project.
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