Report: Canada Private Funders Are More Wary of Project Risk

Even as Canada’s government boosted national infrastructure spending by 11% from 2015 to 2017 and launched the Canada Infrastructure Bank to attract and funnel private-sector project dollars, private investment declined 18% in the same period, says a report by a think tank at Ontario’s Western University.

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Insurance Company Advisor Cuts Out the Middle Man

A risk analysis consultancy long focused on construction delays has branched out to apply its chops to the development of a hyperlocal software-as-a-service weather risk-management system for construction that launched Jan. 29.

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Trump Pushes ‘Buy American’

Construction industry officials are poring over President Trump’s new executive order that aims to expand “Buy American” preferences for infrastructure projects.

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June Finish Set for Transit Hub Girder Fix

The fix is under way of the fractured twin plate girders that span 80 ft across Fremont Street in the 4.5-block-long Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco, but a reopening date is not yet set.

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