Crews Launch Truss in Alaskan Wilderness With Help From Advanced Digital Modeling

Intolerable risk. That was what came to Todd Keller’s mind when Granite Construction looked at the design-build solicitation from the Federal Highway Administration in 2022 to rebuild a section of Denali Park Road, in the Alaska national park, that had been washed out by a landslide.

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Feds Narrow Scope of Protections for Wetlands and Waters with New Proposed Rule

The two agencies charged with ensuring that waters considered “waters of the United States” or WOTUS, are protected against pollution have released a proposed rule that they say will clarify decades of confusion over which wetlands and bodies of water require federal permits in order for construction projects that could potentially damage or disturb them to proceed. 

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