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United Rentals Settles With SEC
Construction rental giant United Rentals Inc. says it will pay $14 million to settle a lawsuit that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lodged on Sept. 8.
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09/17/2008 New I-35 Span Opens Just 13 Months After Fatal Collapse

09/17/2008 Manhattan's New Landmark

09/17/2008 Last Big Hanford Contract Awarded As New Safety Fine Is Proposed

09/17/2008 California's San Vicente Dam To Be Raised 117 Ft

09/10/2008 Canada Caught in Price Spiral

09/10/2008 Corps and Private Sector Reach An Agreement on Texas Project

09/10/2008 Robert Paulsen Named New President of Key PBSJ Unit

09/10/2008 L.A. School Opens 10 Years Late and Way Over Budget

09/10/2008 FHWA Releases First Storm Funds

09/10/2008 CERN Collider Switched On

09/03/2008 HOK's Sports Design Unit Set To Split From Its Parent Firm

09/03/2008 Las Vegas Hotel Fire Was Fueled By Use of Nonapproved Resins

09/03/2008 Large Powerplant Contracts Give Construction Stats a Boost

09/03/2008 Crew Erects Concrete Modular Home in Eight Hours

08/27/2008 Highway Builder C.C. Meyers Files for Personal Bankruptcy

08/27/2008 Heads Roll at Georgia Builder In Wake of Execs' Guilty Pleas

08/27/2008 Hanford Site Nuclear Reactor Named a National Historic Site

08/27/2008 Burec Project Targets Southwest

08/20/2008 PCA Predicts More Hard Time

08/20/2008 DOE's $89-million Facility Upgrade Will Cut Fossil-Fuel Use by 80%

08/20/2008 Venezuela Nationalizes Cement

08/20/2008 Architect Unveils Plan for Largest High-Rise Village

08/20/2008 Transmission Line Clears Hurdle With West Virginia's Approval

08/13/2008 Engineering Student Incentive Bill Set for President Bush's Signature

08/13/2008 D.C. Law Pushes Commercial Building Energy Efficiency

08/13/2008 GSA Standardizes on Enterprise Project Management System

08/13/2008 Bank Forces Foreclosure on Vegas Job, but Keeps Construction Going

08/13/2008 Washington State Toughens Standards of Water Runoff

08/06/2008 Madison Takes Over FHWA, Politics May Make Tenure Short

08/06/2008 Case Against Schiavone Exec Set To Be Dropped by Feds

08/06/2008 Project Executive Pleads Guilty in Tishman Embezzling Scheme

08/06/2008 High Oil Prices Lubricate $800-million Coal-to-Gas Plant

08/06/2008 CEO Takes New Job, Sells Firm

08/06/2008 Voluntary Standards Proposed by ANSI for Highway Safety

07/30/2008 New York City to End Use Of 'No Damages for Delays'

07/30/2008 U.S. Senator Ted Stevens Indicted In Charges Related to VECO Case

07/30/2008 Canal in Dubai Will Be Region's Largest Civil Works Job

07/23/2008 Tiny Endangered Fish Adds to Southern California Water Woes

07/23/2008 Public-Private Project Begins To Add Beltway's Toll Lanes

07/23/2008 Contract With Delaware Utility Will Anchor Offshore Development

07/23/2008 After Ownership Shuffle, Giant U.K. Wind Farm Gets Started

07/23/2008 Depressed Housing Market Pulls Down Construction Industry

07/16/2008 Great Lakes Water Deal Reached

07/16/2008 Chinese Manufacturers Make Another Big Investment

07/16/2008 Dispute Between Regulators Puts Powerplant Project at Risk

07/16/2008 Montreal Bypass Moves Ahead

07/16/2008 College Campus Gives Toronto’s Lake Side Development a Boost

07/09/2008 Bentley and Autodesk Agree To Exchange Keys To Sharing Data

07/09/2008 U.K. Pushes Renewable Energy

07/09/2008 New Project To Tap Ohio River

07/09/2008 Judge To Decide Liability of BP In Fatal Texas Refinery Blast

07/09/2008 Housing Depression Drops Total Construction Starts by 14%

07/02/2008 Oregon DOT Cans Contractor Over Poor Workmanship

07/02/2008 Canada Nears $1.5-Billion Award of Public-Private Montreal Job

07/02/2008 400-Ft-Tall Ferris Wheel Will Make Its American Debut

06/25/2008 U.S. Files Charges Against Ailing Modern Continental

06/25/2008 New Standards Push Biofuels

06/25/2008 OSHA Targets NYC Safety Crisis

06/25/2008 Italy To Export 'Turning Towers'

06/25/2008 Land Deal Is Big Break For Everglades Restoration

06/25/2008 CH2M Hill-Fluor Team Selected For Next Big Hanford Waste Job

06/18/2008 Another Fatality in Las Vegas Brings City's Death Toll to 12

06/18/2008 Chicago Transit Authority Hits Brakes on Super-Station Project

06/18/2008 Staubach Real Estate Firm Bought

06/18/2008 A Pavilion at Spain's Expo Zaragoza Uses Water for Walls

06/18/2008 Ohio Awards Contracts To Repair Bridge Pier Rammed by a Truck

06/11/2008 Preston Takes Over Top Spot at Troubled HUD

06/11/2008 China Battles 'Quake Lakes'

06/11/2008 Aviation Industry Meets To Look For Solutions to the Fuel Crisis

06/11/2008 Bush Orders Contractors To Track Immigration Status of Workers

06/11/2008 Overflowing Lake Carves a Breach and Drains Away

06/04/2008 Las Vegas Workers Walk Off Job After Sixth Fatal Accident

06/04/2008 Nuclear-Waste Cleanup Players Changing at DOE's Hanford Site

06/04/2008 Contractors Will Contest OSHA Citations in Garage Collapse

06/04/2008 Massachusetts Law To Review Projects in State-Managed Waters

06/04/2008 Channel Is Dug, Not Blasted, To Drain China's Quake-Spawned Lake

 

 

05/28/2008 Federal Agents Probing Building-Permit Crimes File Charges

05/28/2008 Industry Unemployment Hits 11%

05/28/2008 Court Enjoins Enforcement of Miami-Dade's Crane Ordinance

05/28/2008 Crawler Crane Collapses Near Kansas City, Killing Boilermaker

05/28/2008 Court Orders DOE To Pay Utilities $83 Million in Fuel Storage Costs

05/21/2008 AIA Announces New 'Integrated' Standard to Mixed Reviews

05/21/2008 Gas Leak Sparks Explosion At San Diego Hotel Project

05/21/2008 Beleaguered Board Sets Precedent: Levee Trees Must Go

05/21/2008 Pennsylvania Is Closer To Privatizing Its Turnpike

05/14/2008 DOE Says Wind Could Supply 20% of U.S. Energy Needs

05/14/2008 Contractors Get New Tool In Combatting Corruption Overseas

05/14/2008 New Group Plans To Train Iraqis In Bridge-Inspection Techniques

05/14/2008 Desalination Plant for London

05/14/2008 Canada Backs Link To Detroit

05/14/2008 Massive Earthquake Devastates Central China

05/07/2008 U.K. Awards Tidal-Dam Study

05/07/2008 United Nations Fast-Tracks Its New York City Headquarters

05/07/2008 Nation's Largest Crane Outfit To Merge With Private Equity Firm

05/07/2008 U.S. Inks Levee-Fence Pact

05/07/2008 Contractors Challenge Miami-Dade's Tower-Crane Ordinance

05/07/2008 World's Longest Bridge Starts Up

05/07/2008 Minnesota Reaches Settlement as New Bridge Is 65% Complete

04/30/2008 GAO Upholds $4-Billion DOE Job to Fluor Team After Bid Protest

04/30/2008 Feds Fund $25-million Study Of Nation's 'Workhorse' Bridges

04/30/2008 Security Is High Priority

04/30/2008 Chicago's Deadly Fire Dispute Is Settled for $100 Million

04/30/2008 Contractor at Adjacent Site Rushes In To Fill Sink Hole in One Day

04/23/2008 N.Y.C. Buildings Commissioner Resigns After Spate of Accidents

04/23/2008 Texas' Big Wind-Farm Plan

04/23/2008 Plans for Africa Hydro Project, World's Largest, Move Forward

04/23/2008 Construction Takes Another Hit

04/23/2008 Stuck TBM Shuts Down Job

04/23/2008 Courts Kill Water Diversion Plan

04/16/2008 Forensic Review Calls for More Repairs to Central Artery/Tunnel

04/16/2008 Inspector General's Probe Finds Corruption in Crane Licensing

04/16/2008 State Blocks Gas Terminal Job

04/16/2008 Cat Buys Underground Supplier

04/16/2008 United Rentals Co-Founder Indicted as Fraud Probe Widens

04/16/2008 Press Museum Opens Late, Soon After On-Time Ballpark

04/09/2008 U.S., Mexico Border Fence Gets Free Pass on Environmental Laws

04/09/2008 U.S. Firm Wins U.K. Contract To Manage Nuclear Waste Program

04/09/2008 London Lets Key Awards

04/09/2008 Turbines Turn on Building

04/02/2008 Nouvel Wins Pritzker Prize

04/02/2008 Companies Will Put Up $1 Billion To Develop Photovoltaic Power

04/02/2008 No Fines Over Las Vegas Fire Despite Safety Questions

04/02/2008 Engineer's Second Fatal Air Crash Is Family Tragedy, Industry Issue

04/02/2008 Rivers Flow Freely Now Through Former Milltown Dam Site

03/26/2008 That Sinking Feeling

03/26/2008 WGI Settles Harassment Charges

03/26/2008 Kansas Governor Vetoes Project

03/26/2008 New York City Bridge Officials Plead Guilty To Taking Bribes

03/26/2008 Trench Collapse Kills Three

03/19/2008 W.R. Grace Will Pay $250 Million To Clean Up Montana Site

03/19/2008 Boulder, Colo., Picked To Be Nation's First 'Smart Grid' City

03/19/2008 Environmental Groups Sue To Stop Project in Wilderness Area

03/19/2008 Bridge Spanning the Red Sea Has Initial $20-Billion Estimate

03/19/2008 Inspector Discovers Crack in Support Column, Closing I-95

03/12/2008 Team Slated To Take On U.K.Program-Management Contract

03/12/2008 Construction Set To Move On West Virginia Electric Plant

03/12/2008 Pennsylvania Will Seek Private Investment Opportunities

03/12/2008 Electric Earthmover Arrives To Bulldoze Surging Oil Prices

03/12/2008 Public-Private Partnership Team Secures Funding for Texas Road

03/12/2008 Transportation Report Cites Need for New Methods

03/05/2008 ICC Hearings Vote Down Several New NIST Code Proposals

03/05/2008 McCourt Construction Charged In Overbilling Scheme on CA/T

03/05/2008 Used Equipment in Demand

03/05/2008 $1 Billion of Military Jobs Awarded

03/05/2008 Florida Investigates Blackout

03/05/2008 U.S. State Dept. Set To Clear Link to Canadian Oil Sands

02/27/2008 Cause Sought for Power Failure That Put 2.5 Million in the Dark

02/27/2008 Vietnam Moving Toward The Nation's First Two Metros

02/27/2008 Infrastructure Repair, Access To Clean Water Named Priorities

02/27/2008 Third Exit Stair To Be Part Of 2009 International Building Code

02/27/2008 3.75-Kilometer Terminal In Beijing Is Nearly Open

02/20/2008 Chicago Midway Sale Takes Off

02/20/2008 OSHA Fines Key Contractors At 'Ground Zero' Demolition Job

02/20/2008 L.A.'s MTA Sues Contractors For Faulty-Work Subway Line

02/20/2008 Consumer Inflation Picks Up

02/20/2008 Ground Work Starts To Rise For I-35W Bridge Replacement

02/13/2008 AECOM Buying Spree Continues With Earth Tech, Boyle, Tecsult

02/13/2008 Tornado Halts Production at 180,000-sq-ft Hose-coupling Facility

02/13/2008 Verdict: Human-Induced Climate Change Is Drying the West

02/13/2008 Reports Record Losses for Year

02/06/2008 Housing Crisis Leaves Its Mark On 2007 Construction Market

02/06/2008 Florida Job Has Green Light As Court Vacates Legal Challenge

02/06/2008 Caterpillar Buys Chinese Firm

02/06/2008 U.S., France and Japan Ink Pact To Build Safer, Cleaner Reactors

02/06/2008 100-Ton Prefab Bridge Lifted Into Place

01/30/2008 Federal Agency Says Dulles Metrorail Project Is Not 'Prudent'

01/30/2008 KBR Backs Out of $6.3-billion Job; Virginia Looks for New Bids

01/30/2008 Terex To Make Tracks In Proposed Merger With ASV

01/30/2008 Scots Plan New $8.4-Billion Bridge To Span Firth of Forth

01/30/2008 Architectural Accent Foam Fuels Las Vegas Casino Fire

01/23/2008 Mideast Money Secures Funding For Europe's Tallest Tower

01/23/2008 WGI CEO Hanks Retires Early, Replaced by Firm Veteran Zarges

01/23/2008 Coal Firm Fined Record Amount For Water Pollution Violations

01/23/2008 Argentina Awards $1.3-Billion Contract for High-Speed Rail

01/23/2008 World of Concrete Venders Vie for Title of Largest Boom Truck

01/16/2008 More Pains Over Panes

01/16/2008 Career State Dept. Manager Will Head Embassy Building Program

01/16/2008 Feds OK Wind-Farm Project

01/16/2008 LNG Terminal's Approval Sparks Lawsuit Threats From Neighbors

01/16/2008 Moscow Gives Nod to Early Plan For a Glassed-Tower Minicity

01/09/2008 Corps Picks Gen. Riley as Deputy Commander

01/09/2008 Feds Investigate Construction Contracting at Port of Seattle

01/09/2008 EPA Report Says Green Roofs Can Lower Construction Costs

01/09/2008 Fluor and DOE Crews Complete Tough Sludge Cleanup at Hanford

01/09/2008 Non-Housing Markets Slow in '08 But Firm Earnings Will Still Grow

01/09/2008 Critics Attack License Renewals

01/03/2008 Interstate 81 Corridor Widening Plans Face Lawsuit

01/03/2008 GM and Navistar Near Deal For Medium-Duty Truck Sale

01/03/2008 Scotland Seeks New Span

 


 

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