finance & business news archive (2003)

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12/29/2003 World Bank Approves $166 Million for Afghanistan Rebuilding

12/29/2003 NCSEA Announces Certification Program for Structural Engineers

12/22/2003 CH2M Hill Wins Prize In Bankruptcy Contest

12/22/2003 Long-Anticipated Bankruptcy Ends Chapter for Halliburton

12/22/2003 FEC Fines Centex Construction Units For Campaign Contribution

12/22/2003 Business Rules Are Changing For Contracting in China

12/15/2003 San Diego Rights Its Ship Under Navy’s Lou Smith

12/09/2003 $328-Billion Spending Package Sidetracked in Senate

12/08/2003 Bear Patrol Guards Workers Closing Arctic Mine

12/08/2003 Bids Fly for Bankrupt J.A. Jones Unit, Lockwood Greene

12/05/2003 No Quick Approval Seen for $328-Billion Omnibus Spending Bill

12/01/2003 St. Paul-Travelers Merger Thins Underwriter Ranks

11/24/2003 XL America Buys DPIC Renewals As Professional Liability Insurer Exits

11/24/2003 New Guidelines May Take Some Pain Out of Reverse Auctions

11/17/2003 Fluor Corp. Exec Ron Oakley Set to Join Bovis as New CEO

11/17/2003 Unions Ask for Slowdown of Las Vegas Home Sprawl

11/10/2003 Contractor Files for Chapter 11 On Tampa Desalination Project

11/05/2003 Congress Approves 3% Hike for Park Service Construction

11/03/2003 Construction Will Continue Along Slow Growth Path

11/03/2003 Danger Lurks Behind Some Friendly Looking Contracts

11/03/2003 Structural Engineers Expected To OK Certification Program

10/30/2003 Investors Air Concerns About Security and Business Stability
in Iraq

10/30/2003 Nash: DOD to Speed Bidding of Iraq Reconstruction Contracts

10/30/2003 Conferees Agree on $87.5-Billion Iraq Spending Bill, with $13 Billion for Infrastructure

10/27/2003 Contractors Place Their Bids For J.A. Jones Prime Assets

10/27/2003 Corps to Seek Bids on Up to $5 Billion in Non-Oil, Overseas
Contracts

10/23/2003 Rear Admiral Loose to Take Command at NAVFAC

10/22/2003 Hurdle Remains for FY04 DOD Committee Spending Bill

10/20/2003 House and Senate Pass Iraq Reconstruction Aid Package

10/20/2003 Poor Health May Save Union Leader

10/20/2003 DBIA Looks for New President And Fair Project Delivery Laws

10/20/2003 Plans Laid for Next Phase As Iraq Rebuild Continues

10/16/2003 Corps Backs New 'Relief Valve' for North Dakota Lake

10/13/2003 Picking Up the Pieces In the J.A. Jones Saga

10/13/2003 Labor-Owned Firm Investment May Ease Financial Woes

10/13/2003 Blackout Buzz Attracts Tire Kickers to Utility Exposition

10/10/2003 House Panel Approves $86.9 Billion for Iraq

10/09/2003 Corps of Engineers Reorganizing, Seeking to be "a Team of Teams"

10/07/2003 House Panel's Chairman Trims Bush Request for Rebuilding Iraq

10/06/2003 Engineers in California Recall Stake Claim to Be Governor

10/06/2003 J.A. Jones Files Chapter 11 After Long Effort To Find a Buyer

10/03/2003 Labor Dept. Finalizes Changes to Union Financial Disclosure Reports

09/30/2003 One-Month Spending Bill Enacted, Covers Most Agencies

09/29/2003 Bush Seeks to Bolster Rebuilding in Iraq

09/29/2003 Bechtel’s $680-Million Contract Is Now Tapped Out

09/26/2003 Congress Passes Stopgap Funding Bill

09/25/2003 Reconstruction Will Expose Iraqi Construction Industry To Modern
Western Practices

09/25/2003 Course Change At Graphisoft

09/22/2003 As AGC Girds for Elections, Union Chiefs Talk Cooperation

09/15/2003 GSA Pioneers CM Standards in RFP

09/15/2003 U.S. Firm Claims Competitor Rigged Chinese Crane Option

09/11/2003 House Passes FY04 Spending Bill for DOT, GSA

09/08/2003 German Designer Fined In African Bribery Case

09/08/2003 Pittsburgh District Attorney Declines to Charge Contractor

09/04/2003 ASCE Infrastructure Report Shows Negative Trend for Several Sectors

08/27/2003 CBO Projects Record Federal Deficit for 2004

08/27/2003 Bechtel Awards Lucent Iraqi Communications Subcontract

08/18/2003 Owner of Damaged Building Sues Insurers to Pay for Demolition

08/11/2003 International Firms Band Together to Promote Clean Bidding

08/11/2003 Politics Impede $5.6-Billion South Korea Program, Says GAO

08/11/2003 Owners Play a Major Role in Site Safety

08/08/2003 Bechtel Bows Out of Iraq Oil-Repair Contract Competition, Citing Scope Changes

08/04/2003 Contractor's Iraq Connection Dogged By Trail of Project Woes

08/04/2003 Policies for Defects Axing Key Elements

07/28/2003 Capitol Visitor Center Costs Continue to Spiral Upward

07/28/2003 California Road Jobs Given Emergency Fix

07/24/2003 Iraq Reconstruction Resource

07/21/2003 Airports Must Now Redesign To Relocate Screeners

07/21/2003 Heavy Lifting Ahead: Cliff Mumm, Bechtel National's Iraqi Project Director, Addresses Looting, Security Concerns

07/21/2003 Depressed Market Takes Out Powerplant Builder and Owners

07/21/2003 Corps, Contractor and Iraqis Prioritize Projects to Bring Back Oil Production

07/18/03 House, Senate Panels Clear Corps Funding Bills

07/17/2003 Bechtel Completes Bridge Bypass in Iraq

07/14/2003 Bush Picks Chicago Construction Official as Ambassador to Ireland

07/14/2003 Iraq's New $6.4-Billion Budget Has $1.1 Billion for Construction

07/14/2003 Hawaiian Engineers Targeted By Campaign Finance Probe

07/14/2003 Retirement Wave Looms for State DOTs

07/07/2003 AWWA Looks for New Ways To Go with the Flow in 2004

07/07/2003 Toyota Claims Union Pact Gives Nonunion Firms Fair Shake

07/07/2003 As Fiscal Problems Persist, States Cut Across the Board

07/07/2003 Changes Coming In Iraq's Oil Fields

06/30/2003 Transportation Officials Lament Lack of Funds

06/30/2003 ULLICO Probers Question Georgines Compensation

06/30/2003 Waiting for California's New Law to Show Results

06/30/2003 Shotgun Claims Drive Insurance Sky-High

06/27/2003 States' 2003 Budgets Cut By $14.5 Billion, Survey Says

06/27/2003 House Approves 14% Cut in DOD Construction Funds for 2004

06/26/2003 House Passes Bill Hiking Homeland Security Dept. Funds By 2%

06/23/2003 Bank Loses Its Confidence With Project 95% Complete

06/23/2003 House, Senate Pass Aviation Funding Bills

06/19/2003 House Approves Permanent Repeal of Estate Tax

06/18/2003 House Panel Cuts DOD Construction Spending for 2004

06/18/2003 DOT Revises Contract Retainage Rule

06/16/2003 Griffin To Become Corps' Deputy Chief

06/16/2003 Contractor Stars in Verdict In $1.5-billion Casino Lawsuit

06/16/2003 Small Steps Made Toward Big Afghanistan Rebuild

06/16/2003 A Responsibility Gap Crashes At Location C3

06/09/2003 Class Of 2003 Finds Jobs Tight But More Interest In Engineers Grads

06/09/2003 Bovis Wins Venetian Lawsuit

06/05/2003 Senate Rejects Bid to Cancel 2005 Base Closure Round

06/02/2003 Construction Sees Gains From Tax Bill, At Least In Near Term

06/02/2003 Thousands Jockey To Rebuild Iraq

05/30/2003 Bechtel Says First Land Subcontract In Iraq Signed

05/29/2003 OMB Releases New Rule for Contracting Federal Services

05/27/2003 Tax-Cut Bill Clears Congress

05/27/2003 Labor Insurer ULLICO Names Acting President

05/26/2003 Multiyear Jobs, Even Small Ones, Are Biggest Risk For Overruns

05/26/2003 SAFETEA Funding Debate Begins

05/23/2003 Tax-Cut Bill Clears Congress

05/23/2003 House Passes $350-Billion Tax Cut Package

05/22/2003 First of Three Bechtel Road shows for Iraqi Subcontractors Draws SRO Crowd

05/14/2003 Bechtel Awards Additional Iraq Subcontracts

05/12/2003 Bechtel Advances In Awarding Iraq Rebuild Subcontracts

05/12/2003 Key J.A. Jones Construction Unit Is On The Block To Pay Off Debts

05/12/2003 Accurate Measures Are Elusive

05/09/2003 Georgine Resigns As ULLICO CEO, Replaced By O'Sullivan

05/05/2003 VDOT Staff Told To Get Licensed

05/05/2003 Bechtel Awards Subcontracts But Iraq Work Slowed By Storms

05/05/2003 Potential Asbestos Deal Nears

04/28/2003 Fluor, AMEC Form Team to Compete for Oil Field Contracts in Iraq

04/28/2003 Deal Could Oust Georgine As Chairman Of Troubled Ullico

04/25/2003 Bechtel Seeks To Register Potential Iraq Rebuilding Subcontractors

04/25/2003 Georgine Will Step Down as ULLICO Chairman

04/24/2003 Bechtel Sends More Personnel, Supplies to Iraq

04/21/2003 Creel Leaves Tyco's Earth Tech For Role As R&D Entrepreneur

04/21/2003 U.S. Steel Top Bidder in Auction for National Steel

04/21/2003 Group Settles For Compromise In Needed Revamp Of Standards

04/21/2003 SARS Forces Firms To Trim Trips While Working For Asian Clients

04/17/2003 USAID Awards Iraq Reconstruction Contract to Bechtel

04/17/2003 Bush Signs Bill Providing $79 Billion for Iraq War, Reconstruction

04/14/2003 Congress Approves $78.5 Billion for Iraq War, Reconstruction

04/14/2003 Corps Picks Three Contractors For Broad Mideast Support Work

04/11/2003 Corps: Kellogg Brown & Root Contract Has $7-Billion Cap; Only $50 Million Spent So Far

04/04/2003 Corps Picks 3 Firms for Work Under U.S. Central Commande

04/07/2003 HealthSouth's Financial Woes Squeeze Construction Projects

04/07/2003 Army Beefs Up Its Logistics

04/07/2003 War Funds Advance In Congress

04/04/2003 War Spending Packages Clear House, Senate

03/31/2003 Border Berms Cleared To Make Way For U.S. Invasion Of Iraq

03/31/2003 Engineers Place Pipeline That Follows Troops Into Iraq

03/31/2003 War Fuels Burst Of Contracting

03/27/2003 Rumsfeld and Ridge Defense $75-Billion Supplemental Request to Senate Appropriators

03/27/2003 Corps Prepares to Assess Early Infrastructure Needs in Iraq

03/25/2003 Bush Seeks $75 Billion For Iraq War, Humanitarian Aid

03/25/2003 Kellogg Brown & Root Gains Corps Contract to Extinguish Iraq Oil Fires

03/24/2003 Worries Over Shrinking Assets As Ullico Director Resigns

03/24/2003 Troops And Equipment: Good To Go

03/20/2003 USAID Expects to Award Iraq Reconstruction Contract by End of Month

03/03/2003 The Plan For Post-Saddam Iraq

03/14/2003 Carpenters' President Resigns From Ullico Board

03/13/2003 DOD Seeks Potential Oil Fire Contractors for Post-War Iraq

03/10/2003 U.S. Agency Seeks Bids for Rebuilding Iraq

03/10/2003 AFL-CIO Council's Flap With Chao Stalls Its Debate Over Ullico

03/10/2003 U.S. Charges 42 In Crackdown On Mob Influence In N.Y. Unions Rackets

03/05/2003 Corps Budget Slammed by Senate Appropriators

03/03/2003 Empty-Pocketed States Look To Feds

02/28/2003 Civil Works Nominee Has Smooth Confirmation Hearing

02/24/2003 Spending Bill Finally Passes

02/17/2003 Security Needs Raise New Issues

02/17/2003 Toyota Sites New Plant in Texas for Some Unusual Reasons

02/17/2003 Disciplinary Hearings Draw Crowds

02/13/2003 Conferees Agree on $397-Billion Omnibus Spending Bill

02/10/2003 Dillingham Files for Bankruptcy

02/10/2003 Budget Is Tough on Construction

02/03/2003 Bush FY2004 Budget Plan Holds Down Most Construction Programs

01/20/2003 House Appropriations Sets Up Homeland Security Subcommittee

01/27/2003 Supreme Court Rejects Appeal in PLA Case

01/27/2003 W. Va. Contractor Who Hit it Big Sets Sights on Bigger Projects

01/27/2003 Many Strapped Governors Look to Tap Capital Funds

01/27/2003 U.S. Moves to Settle Lumber Rift

01/24/2003 Senate Clears $390-Billion Spending Package

01/23/2003 Bush Nominates DOD Official for Army Civil Works Post

01/22/2003 Ridge Confirmed as Homeland Security Secretary

01/20/2003 Giant Statue Topples in India Just Days Before Completion

01/17/2003 Ridge Nears Confirmation As Homeland Security Secretary

01/13/2003 Hugh Shiring Jr. Lived and Died Doing the Tough Work He Loved

01/13/2003 Stimulus May Not Stir Industry

01/09/2003 Ground Zero Design Schemes Debated

01/09/2003 U.S. Steel Signs Deal to Acquire National Steel Assets

01/09/2003 Congress Nears Approval of Bill Funding Agencies Through Jan. 31

01/07/2003 House Democrats Unveil $136-Billion Stimulus Plan

01/07/2003 LTV' s Successor Bids $1.5 Billion for Bethlehem Steel

01/03/2003 Nations Rent Shoots for Bankruptcy Rebound, After Yearlong Struggle