Making its first-ever international expansion, Denver-based Brundage-Bone Concrete Pumping will
acquire three companies in the U.K. that provide concrete-pumping services.
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Construction Economics for the Week of Dec. 12, 2016
ENR’s 20-city average cost indexes, wages and materials prices. Historical data and details for ENR’s 20 cities can be found at ENR.com/economics
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Designers Face Collapse Fallout
The use of “severely notched” end connections in the design of timber bridge girders that failed, sending a pair of partly completed pedestrian bridges crashing to the ground—and killing one worker—has come back to haunt the bridge engineer, architect of record and material supplier.
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Infrastructure Plan May be Chao's First Big Task
In choosing Elaine L. Chao as his nominee to head the Dept. of Transportation, President-elect Donald J. Trump picked a former Cabinet secretary who has held senior positions at DOT and was a board member of two prominent construction industry firms.
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NJ Approves $80 Million for Utility's Solar Expansion
New Jersey utility Public Service Electric & Gas on Nov. 30 said it has gotten the go-ahead from state regulators to invest up to $80 million in the next three years to build solar farms on brownfields and landfills in its service territory.
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Swisslog signs $21m logistics automation project
Logistics automation specialist Swisslog signs contract with Mai Dubai for automation of water-bottling expansion project
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Omniyat launches residential offering near burj
A two tower development, The Sterling will include one-, two- and three-bed apartments and townhouses
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Construction on Jordan’s nuclear plant concludes
The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute and Daewoo Engineering and Construction formed a consortium in 2009 to construct the facility
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RAK Properties awards $8m deal for Anantara hotel
The property will feature Ras Al Khaimah?s first Maldives-inspired overwater villas, four restaurants, a spa, and other leisure facilities
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Egypt: NPP construction agreement to conclude soon
Russia and Egypt signed an inter-governmental agreement on constructing the first NPP in November 2015
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