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Fastener Firm To Pay $6 Million To Settle 2006 Big Dig Accident
Powers Fasteners Inc., Brewster, N.Y., has agreed to a $6-million settlement with the three children and widower of Milena Del Valle, killed in a July 2006 collapse of the Interstate-90 tunnel plenum in Boston.
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12/27/2007 Equity Firm Bid for United Rentals Is Undone After Dec. 21 Ruling

12/27/2007 W.R. Grace Superfund Site Costs To Be Paid in Bankruptcy Pact

12/27/2007 PBSJ Reports Earnings Increase As Embezzlement Impact Wanes

12/19/2007 Piano's Golden Touch

12/19/2007 Ingersoll-Rand Nearly Doubles In Size With New Acquisition

12/19/2007 CH2M Hill buys Energy EPC Firm To Boost Push into Power Niche

12/19/2007 Construction Down 10% in 2007

12/19/2007 Panama Canal Bidders Move Into Formal Stage

12/12/2007 Four Injured in Yet Another Las Vegas Construction Collapse

12/12/2007 St. Louis Rail Agency CEO Out After Jury Rules for Engineers

12/12/2007 Weather Buries Roads in Mud and Debris in Pacific Northwest

12/12/2007 SEC Says Laborers' Union Can Seek Pension-Fund Disclosure

12/12/2007 Snowplow Slips Across 'Deficient' Bridge Just Prior to Collapse

12/05/2007 Moose-Shaped Building Stands Out in Swedish Wilderness Resort

12/05/2007 Walsh Settles Millennium Park Sexual Harassment Lawsuit

12/05/2007 Korean Supplier Buys Bobcat

12/05/2007 China Expo Features Domestic Machines and $26-Billion Market

12/05/2007 Fines Levied in Rad Waste Spill at DOE Site in Washington State

12/05/2007 New York Subway Building Chief To Retire But Still Work for City

11/28/2007 Carpenters' International Union Yanks Control of New York Local

11/28/2007 Flush With Private-Equity Funds, Brand Continues Buying Spree

11/28/2007 Corps Stands by Flood Report

11/28/2007 Traffic-Safety Firm Expands

11/28/2007 Tree Anchors New $20-million Botanical Garden in California

11/21/2007 URS Succeeds in Buying WGI, Creating New Industry Behemoth

11/21/2007 Four Global Teams Aim To Build $3-Billion Panama Canal Locks

11/21/2007 Feds Agree To Fund $1.3 Billion For New New York City Subway

11/21/2007 Court Strikes Down Fuel Rules

11/21/2007 Housing Crisis Pulls Overall Construction 11% Below 2006

11/14/2007 New York City Picks Team For Midtown Subway Extension

11/14/2007 London's Olympic Centerpiece

11/14/2007 Canadian Bridge Collapses While Under Construction

11/14/2007 Deere Will Honor Warranties For Engines Using Biodiesel Blends

11/14/2007 Corps Floats Revised Plan For High-Water Control on Yazoo

11/14/2007 Hewlett Packard, T.Y. Lin: Buying

11/14/2007 Burj Passes Latest Milestone

11/07/2007 CH2M Hill Completes Record Reverse-Osmosis Plant

11/07/2007 Halliburton and ShawCor Ordered To Pay $108 Million for Dumping

11/07/2007 URS Sweetens the Deal for WGI

11/07/2007 Higher Material Prices Adds $145 million To L.A. Rail Project

11/07/2007 Case Hooks Up With Hyundai

11/07/2007 New Integrated Project Delivery System Introduced By AIA

10/31/2007 Weak Housing Overshadows Strong Nonresidential Building Market

10/31/2007 BP Fined $62 million for Blast and Spill Under Deal with U.S.

10/31/2007 Turkey and Israel Move Forward On Pipeline Infrastructure Link

10/31/2007 GAO Upholds Protests to Army's Award of $50-Billion LOGCAP 4

10/31/2007 Rooftop Mini-Hills of San Francisco

10/24/2007 New England Wind Deal Falters

 

 

10/24/2007 Construction's Injury Rate Declines

10/24/2007 Brand Continues Buying Spree

10/24/2007 France Has Inside Track on Africa Rail Job

10/17/2007 University and DOE To Build Sustainable-Energy Center

10/17/2007 Bechtel Team Chosen To Finish $2.5-Billion Watts Bar Facility

10/17/2007 Two Minnesotans Demand Injunction Against I-35W Rebuild

10/17/2007 Beleaguered Elevated Connector In Tampa Could Start Up in 2009

10/17/2007 Massachusetts Span Partially Reopens After Temporary Fix

10/17/2007 Skyscraper Inches Closer To Becoming Europe's Tallest

10/10/2007 Court Orders Ohio Power Utility To Undertake $4.6-billion Cleanup

10/10/2007 Congressional Committee Alleges Building Defects at Iraq Project

10/10/2007 Saudis Choose Hill To Manage $7.8-Billion Financial Complex

10/10/2007 Bechtel Fined at Hanford Site

10/10/2007 Crane Collapse Spurs Lawsuits

10/10/2007 New Resort Project Will Add Dazzle to Buffalo's Skyline

10/03/2007 New York Schools Go Green

10/03/2007 Five Billion for Clean Fuel Plant

10/03/2007 U.K Looks At Tidal Power

10/03/2007 U.K. Giant Adds U.S. Engineers To Array of Recent Acquisitions

10/03/2007 CB&I Snags Major Refinery Job

10/03/2007 Huge Housing Slump Swamps Small Gains in Other Markets

09/26/2007 License Application for Plants Heralds 'Nuclear Renaissance'

09/26/2007 Team Picked To Build Nation's Tallest Building West of Chicago

09/26/2007 Owner Pleads Guilty in Explosion

09/26/2007 Chinese Manufacturer Plans To Build Its First Plant in the U.S.

09/26/2007 Bridge to Nowhere Goes Nowhere

09/26/2007 Hochtief Buys Flatiron Construction

09/26/2007 Work at Hanford Resumes After Approval of Earthquake Design

09/19/2007 Fragile Stretch of Pacific Coast Highway Heads Underground

09/19/2007 U.K. Engineering Firm To Buy Chilean Company in Expansion

09/19/2007 Stantec Adds Big U.S. Architect To Growing Array of Acquisitions

09/19/2007 Pulp Plant Stack Demolition Injures Seven Spectators

09/19/2007 Praxair and Foster Wheeler Link To Pursue Clean Air Projects

09/19/2007 New Orleans Stormwater Outfall Pumps Are Set To Roar

09/12/2007 Billion-Dollar Toll-Lane Plan Takes Next Step Forward

09/12/2007 Final Funding Piece Falls Into Place for Los Angeles Rail

09/12/2007 Troubled Road Job Garners More Fines in Oregon

09/12/2007 Contract Slated Soon For Completing Delayed Facility

09/12/2007 Jury Picks San Francisco's Transbay Project Scheme

09/12/2007 DOE Seeks Proposals For Improving Facility Contracts

09/05/2007 Military Pays the Way for Private Cleanup at Superfund Site

09/05/2007 Panama Canal's $5.25-Billion Expansion Starts With a Bang

09/05/2007 Connecticut Utilities Race To Meet Renewable-Energy Rules

09/05/2007 Final Two Links in Peru's Interoceanic Highway Awarded

09/05/2007 High-Speed London to Paris Rail Link Opens On Time

08/29/2007 EMCOR Takes a Big Step Into Refinery Maintenance

08/29/2007 Governor Urges Caltrans To Use More Outside Consultants

08/29/2007 Innovation Shortens Schedule on Seattle Paving Project

08/22/2007 Housing Slump Pulls Down Overall Construction Market

08/22/2007 Market Forces Push Louisiana To Accept Higher Sole Bridge Bid

08/22/2007 Owner Steps Up To Rebuild Failed Reservoir in Missouri

08/22/2007 Construction Helps Hispanic Quality of Life, Says Study

08/22/2007 Chinese Media Banned From Reporting on Collapsed Bridge

08/15/2007 2006 Jobsite Deaths Rise 3%, But Industry Fatality Rate Drops

08/15/2007 San Diego To Spend $1 Billion On Improvements Over Six Years

08/15/2007 Clark-Balfour Beatty Team Wins Spy-Agency Complex Contract

08/15/2007 Alaska Gas-Line Applications Extended at Participants' Request

08/15/2007 305-Meter-Tall China Hydro Plant May Break Global Height Record

08/15/2007 Spans in Arizona and China Collapse During Construction

08/08/2007 France and Libya Sign a Nuclear Desalination Plant Pact

08/08/2007 Las Vegas Resort Project Sees Second Accident in a Week

08/08/2007 New Jersey Reorganizes School–Building Agencies

08/08/2007 Plutonium Conversion Plant Finally Under Way

08/08/2007 FEMA Suspends Temporary Shelter Program, Pending Study

08/08/2007 Proposed Designs For San Francisco Skyscraper Unveiled

08/01/2007 California Signs Landmark Rule For Existing Diesel Machinery

08/01/2007 Miami's New $1–billion Tunnel Gets a Vote of Confidence

08/01/2007 South Korean Firm Buys Bobcat From Ingersoll–Rand for $5 Billion

08/01/2007 Skanska Nabs $1.9–billion CM Job for U.N. Renovation

08/01/2007 Massive Steel Contract Awarded for Freedom Tower

07/25/2007 Dubai Skyscraper's Frame Surpasses World's Tallest Building

07/25/2007 After Buying Chrysler, Cerberus Turns Attention to United Rentals

07/25/2007 Former PBS&J Execs Sentenced For Roles in Embezzling Scheme

07/25/2007 Texas Cities Sue State Agency To Block New Powerplant Units

07/25/2007 Study Points to High Chemical Content in Drinking Water

07/18/2007 Japanese Utility Rebuked for Slow Leak Report

07/18/2007 Oil Industry Group Says Demand Will Outstrip Supply

07/18/2007 New Jersey Measure Outlaws Worker Misclassification

07/18/2007 Project Will More Than Double the Output of 160-MW Windfarm

07/18/2007 Environmental Regulators and Chemical Company Make Peace

07/11/2007 Dow Chemical and EPA Battle Over Michigan Dioxin Cleanup

07/11/2007 Oil and Food Giants Team Up For $100-Million Biodiesel Plant

07/11/2007 Site Selection for New Nukes

07/11/2007 Safety Board Asks Congress For More Investigative Authority

07/11/2007 Repairs at U.S. Compound in Baghdad To Be Done by Aug. 1

07/05/2007 Iceland Tunnel Set New World Record for TBM

07/05/2007 Advances Made on Cleaning CO2 From Powerplant Emissions

07/05/2007 San Francisco's $4.3-Billion Water Project Passes Milestone

07/05/2007 Utility Agrees To Pay $650 million to Settle 'Clean Air' Dispute

07/05/2007 U.K. Dealing With Flood Concerns for Old Dams

06/27/2007 Ontario Laborers Settle Strike But Leave Some Terms Open

06/27/2007 Foundation Work Awarded For Chicago's 2,000-ft-tall Spire

06/27/2007 DOE To Build Two Test Facilities For Large-Scale Wind Turbines

06/27/2007 Groups Dedicated to Maximizing Digital Efficiency Align Efforts

06/27/2007 San Francisco Seismic Guidelines Could Become a National Model

06/27/2007 Toledo's Maumee River Crossing Overcomes Obstacles

06/20/2007 Many Ontario Projects at Risk As Laborers' Strike Continues

06/20/2007 Virginia Officials Approve Funding For Airport Rail Link's First Phase

06/20/2007 CH2M Hill Cos. To Acquire VECO Corp. for $365 Million

06/20/2007 GAO Questions DOE Facility

06/20/2007 Nevada Juggles Budgets, Costs

06/20/2007 German Construction Trades Battle for 3.5% Pay Hike

06/13/2007 Ontario-Wide Strike Closes Projects As Mediator Is Appointed

06/13/2007 D.C.-Area Metro Expansion Estimated at $5.1 Billion

06/13/2007 Norfolk Southern Proposes 1,400-Mile-Long Rail Corridor

06/13/2007 ABB To Build $350-million Cable Between U.K. and the Netherlands

06/13/2007 Engineering Work Awarded For Zero-Emissions Coal Plant

06/13/2007 Australian-Led Consortium Wins Build-Operate Canadian Job

06/13/2007 U.K. Architecture Firm Is Set To Acquire Hillier Architecture

06/06/2007 Toronto Museum Addition Reminiscent of Denver Art Museum

06/06/2007 Bradley Fighting Vehicle "Secures" New Army Museum

06/06/2007 AECOM Makes Second Large Acquisition in Australia

06/06/2007 HKS Buys Hill Glazier Architects, Expanding Its Hotel Design Work

06/06/2007 Tiny Fish Shuts Down California Water Supply for 25 Million People

06/06/2007 New York's Market Hot Spot

05/30/2007 Dampers Designed To Eliminate Vibrations on Greek Bridge

05/30/2007 Markets Can't Keep Up With Last Year's Strong Opening Act

05/30/2007 Insurance Settlement Clears Impasse Blocking WTC Work

05/30/2007 Costs Creep Upward on Las Vegas $7.4-Billion Development

05/23/2007 OSHA Commission Ruling Could Change Safety Enforcement Practices

05/23/2007 CM Contract for $2-billion N.Y.C. Transit Project Awarded

05/23/2007 Clinton Launches Energy Retrofit Program

05/16/2007 Building Collapses Confound Indian City

05/16/2007 Army Apologizes to Parsons for Mistaken Billing Accusation

05/16/2007 Major Truck Lines Will Not Be Part of DaimlerChrysler Split

05/16/2007 DOE's Inspector General Faults Hanford Waste-Plant Procurement

05/16/2007 German Steel Firm Picks Alabama for New Incentive-Driven Plant

05/16/2007 Las Vegas Balks on Tax Breaks

05/09/2007 Firms Start To Queue Up for Panama Canal Expansion Contracts

05/09/2007 Shoring Up Sacramento's Defense

05/09/2007 AECOM's IOP Hits the Streets

05/09/2007 Fed OKs Merger of Specialty Giants Quanta and InfraSource

05/09/2007 Navistar Sues Ford for $2 Billion

05/09/2007 Owen Steel Co. Wins Contract for WTC Memorial Steel

05/02/2007 Cleveland Bridge Finally Comes Down on Second Try

05/02/2007 Seattle Art Museum Finished on Schedule and on Budget

05/02/2007 California To Earmark Millions for Sustainable Facility Design

05/02/2007 Feds OK Miami Project Steps But Won't Guarantee U.S. Funding

05/02/2007 Tampa Expands New Plant

04/25/2007 Burj Dubai Exceeds 400 meters; Chicago Spire Wins Approvals

04/25/2007 New York City Plans To Roll Out Proposed Code Next Month

04/25/2007 Washington's New Practice Act Is Sixth in the United States

04/25/2007 Parsons Brinckerhoff Posts Big Profit Jump in 2006

04/25/2007Safety Study Called Inadequate

04/25/2007 CH2M Hill-Korean Venture Wins Korea Military Relocation Award

04/18/2007 Rotating High-Rise Promises 'Revolutionary' Design Features

04/18/2007 EPA Orders Upgrade for Major Chesapeake Bay Treatment Plant

04/18/2007 AECOM Prices Shares Prior to Public Offering

04/18/2007 Another Equipment Rental Operator Goes Up for Grab

04/18/2007Granite Wants Out of Road Job Littered With Ancient Landslides

04/18/2007 Illinois Issues Air Permit for Coal Gasification Reference Plant

04/11/2007 South Africa's Soccer Stadium Gets a 'Green Card'

04/11/2007 Centex Sued for 'Stealing' Staff

04/11/2007 Unions, OSHA Settle Suit Over Hexavalent Chromium Standard

04/11/2007 Corps Orders Levee Tree Trim

04/11/2007 Euro Nuke System Gains in U.S.

04/11/2007 Design Pick Due Next Month for Miami's $1-Billion Tunnel

04/02/2007 Beijing's 'Leaning Towers' Begin To Come Together

04/02/2007 Spanish Firm Eyes Hochtief

04/02/2007 DOE Seeks Firms for $4-Billion Site-Management Contract

04/02/2007 Plant Pushes Cogen Technology

04/02/2007 Turbine Manufacturers Show Growing Trust in Sector's Future

04/02/2007 Biodiesel Gets Major Boost

03/26/2007 Foundation Box Set for California's Oakland Bay Bridge Tower

03/26/2007 Wind Power Could Provide 15% of Twin Towers' Energy Needs

03/26/2007 New Crane Signaler Exam Coming

03/26/2007 Retired PBSJ Execs Hid Illegal Campaign Donations, Say Feds

03/26/2007 Voters Reject Seattle's Road Plan

03/26/2007 Quanta, Infrasource To Merge

03/19/2007 Walking on Air, as Grand Canyon 'Skywalk' Is Rolled Out

03/19/2007 Patent Infringement Suit Over Seismic Design Settled

03/19/2007 L.A. Policy Expedites Green Jobs

03/19/2007 Williams Industries Thinks Private

03/19/2007 New Plants Sweeten TXU Deal

03/19/2007 Balfour Makes Room for Centex

03/12/2007 Last Year's Construction Market Slowdown Continues Into 2007

03/12/2007 Corps Swamped by Lawsuits Related to Hurricane Katrina

03/12/2007 Massachusetts Starts Criminal Investigation of CA/T Collapse

03/12/2007 Spanish Contractor Makes Inroads Into Texas Market

03/12/2007 China Sets New Guidelines for the Use of Foreign Design Firms

03/12/2007 State Opens Embassy Market for Small MEP Contractors

03/05/2007 Volvo Offers $1.3 Billion for Ingersoll-Rand's Paving Business

03/05/2007 European Bank Bans Lahmeyer In Lesotho Corruption Fallout

03/05/2007 Complexity of Job and Surfeit of Work Cited in Contract Delay

03/05/2007 Bridge Needs $1.5-Million Fix Even Before It Is Completed

03/05/2007 Dispute Threatens Ford Trucks

03/05/2007 Halliburton-KBR Split Progresses

02/26/2007 Free-Formist Gehry To Put His First Imprint on Las Vegas

02/26/2007 President Signs Budget Bill, Funding Construction Programs

02/26/2007 Unemployment Drops to 6.7%

02/26/2007 Turkey and Israel Study $2-billion Infrastructure Corridor

02/26/2007 Scotland Funds Wave Power

02/26/2007 Boston Getting Greener

02/19/2007 'Supersized' TBMs Drive 53-mile-long China Water Tunnel

02/19/2007 New York City Gets Tough on Scaffold Safety Standards

02/19/2007 Weather Pushes Back Schedule

02/19/2007 New Jersey School Agency Seeks $750,000 From Hunt for Delays

02/19/2007 Owners Seek To Reverse Negative Ruling on California LNG Plant

02/19/2007 Worley Buys Canadian Colt Cos.

02/12/2007 Zaha Hadid Design Is Cornerstone of Abu Dhabi's New Art Center

02/12/2007 New Plan Pushes London's 2012 Olympics Into the Design Phase

02/12/2007 Major Projects Win Funding Boost

02/12/2007 Major Expansion of Quebec's James Bay Complex Nears

02/12/2007 Toyota Recalls Pickup Trucks

02/05/2007 Last Year's Lack of Growth Masks Some Wild Market Swings

02/05/2007 Corps' National Study Identifies 146 'At-Risk' Structures

02/05/2007 States and Environmentalists Want No High-Court 'Clean Air' Review

02/05/2007 Bush Sustainability Directive Sets Benchmarks for Facilities

02/05/2007 Bush Library Closer to Home

02/05/2007 Kiewit Reports Strong Profit

01/29/2007 Chinese Equipment Firm Makes Grand Entrance at World of Concrete

01/29/2007 CII Picks Crew To Lead Construction Research Center

01/29/2007 OSHA Fines Shaw $191,700 for Faulty Record Keeping

01/29/2007 CB&I Wins $1.5-billion LNG Job

01/29/2007 Corps Draws Down Reservoir Over Concerns of Erosion

01/29/2007 Productivity Running Out of Steam

01/22/2007 Report on Fatal Refinery Explosion Says Statistics Obscured Safety

01/22/2007 Finley Becomes President of Plasterers' and Cement Masons' Union

01/22/2007 Centex Announces Plan To Deal With the Downturn in Housing

01/22/2007 Europe's Game Plan through 2020

01/22/2007 Louisiana Upgrades Critical Energy Infrastructure Link

01/22/2007 Kling and Stubbins Merge

01/15/2007 Laborer Jumps in Front of Moving Train To Save a Life

01/15/2007 Study Finds Sharp Rise in Theft

01/15/2007 California Plans Two New Dams

01/15/2007 Five Construction Firms Ranked Among the Best To Work For

01/15/2007 New Jersey Sues Companies, Seeking Project Cost Overruns

01/15/2007 N.Y.C. Studies Rise in Accidents

01/08/2007 Housing Decline Wipes Out Construction Industry Growth

01/08/2007 Louisiana DOT Finds Substandard Concrete on Bridge Job

01/08/2007 FERC Approves 182-mile-long, $600-Million Millennium Pipeline

01/08/2007 High Costs Delay Power Project

01/08/2007 Developer Pulls Out of Deal to Build 20,000 Housing Units

01/08/2007 McDermott Finally Comes Out From Under the Asbestos Cloud

 


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