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12/25/2006 California Jury Says Tutor-Saliba Breached Contract on Tunnel

12/22/2006 Economists See Housing Market 'Bottoming Out'

12/22/2006 Nevada Appoints Martinovich to Top Transportation Job

12/20/2006 In Switch, Sen. Warner Won't Seek Top GOP Slot on Environment Panel

12/18/2006 Construction Funding is Left Hanging

12/16/2006 Former Chairman of Schoor DePalma Indicted on Bribery Charges

12/11/2006 Speed Interviewing Scores Big in Houston

12/11/2006 Big Design-Build Road Jobs Aren't Foolproof Profit-makers

12/11/2006 KBR Pays Millions for DOD Overbilling

12/11/2006 Owner's System Design, Not Component, Caused Injury

12/11/2006 'Preoccupied Worker' Entitled to Trial

12/08/2006 New Senate Banking Chairman Favors Permanent Terrorism Insurance Program

12/04/2006 Two Years After Tsunami, Firm's Gift Keeps on Giving

12/04/2006 Booming U.K. Building Market Draws Eastern Europeans

12/03/2006 Sciame Carves Out a Prestigious New York Niche

11/27/2006 Owners Tackle Work Force and Process Transformation

11/27/2006 Los Angeles Area Roads Are Winners

11/27/2006 Halliburton Starts Shedding KBR Unit

11/27/2006 Capitol Visitor Center Faces Longer Haul to Completion

11/27/2006 Webcor Builders Plans To Sell 70% to Obayashi Corp.

11/20/2006 Senate Approves Extension for Iraq Watchdog

11/20/2006 Shifts in Senate, House Won't Impact Infrastructure

11/20/2006 Big Day for Public Works, Paced by California's $37 Billion

11/16/2006 Halliburton Launches KBR IPO and Shares Rise

11/16/2006 Pension Agency Reports Bigger Loss In Multiemployer Insurance Program

11/20/2006 Trimble Continues Acquisition Strategy

11/13/2006 Congress Moves To Reinstate Iraq Contracting Overseer

11/13/2006 Attendees from 31 Countries Network at Peoria Event

11/10/2006 Labor Unions Voice Optimism Over Reconfigured Capitol Hill

11/09/2006 The Priorities on Three Key House Committees

11/08/2006 Democratic Control of House Changes Equation for Construction

11/08/2006 Californians Approve $37B In Infrastructure Bonds

11/06/2006 Federal Probe Finds Site Laxity Led to Fatal BP Texas Accident

11/06/2006 Workers' Comp Not Always Enforced, Louisiana Finds

11/05/2006 Ports in Portland: A City Races to Keep Pace

11/03/2006 Holland-based Engineer ARCADIS Buys U.S. Program Manager Pinnacle One

10/23/2006 Structural Engineers Try To Reduce Runaway Claims

10/23/2006 Bechtel Speaks About Work in a War Zone

10/23/2006 CEOs Enjoy Strong Markets But Are Wary of the Future

10/23/2006 Housing Slump May Pull Down Retail Work

10/23/2006 California Package Tops Bond Measures

10/23/2006 New Orleans Road Contractor Liable for Fall During Paving

10/23/2006 No-Damages-for-Delay Clause in Contract Means What It Says

10/23/2006 Global U.S. Building Program Adapts to New Pressures

10/16/2006 City Violated Rules for Confined Space

10/16/2006 Bid-Rig Claim to Get Day in Court

10/16/2006 Loose Cites Reorganization As a Key Accomplishment

10/16/2006 Industrial Owners Project Worker Needs Through 2010

10/13/2006 U.S-Canada Lumber Pact Goes Into Effect

10/12/2006 Collapse Expert Jack Janney Dies at 82

10/09/2006 Lawmakers Grill Participants Over Building Program Flaws

10/05/2006 Economic Reports Suggest Inflation's Effects Are Limited

10/05/2006 Federal Report Says Coverage Is Available, But Not Affordable for Key Threats

10/04/2006 Federal Report Says Terrorism Risk Coverage More Available

10/03/2006 Johnson Approved as Head of Bureau of Reclamation

10/02/2006 Construction Workers Lose Lawsuit over Toxic Exposure

10/02/2006 Embezzlement Probe Raises Campaign Donation Questions

10/02/2006 Iraq Audit Finds Accounting Errors

10/02/2006 A Contractor Injured in a Fall Had No Claim Against Architect

10/01/2006 Housing Slowdown? Tampa Bay Contractors Aren't Worried

09/28/2006 Pols Say Water Resources Bill Won't be Done By October Break

09/25/2006 Costs Still Cloud Diesel Truck Cleanup

09/19/2006 Shear to Become Head of NAVFAC

09/18/2006 Owners Scale Back As Costs March Upward, Poll and Survey Show

09/13/2006 Spitzer Spends Morning After Primary Win with New York Contractors and Designers

09/13/2006 U.S., Canada Sign Lumber Trade Pact

09/11/2006 Short Israel-Lebanon Conflict Generates Long-Term Damage

09/11/2006 Program Manager Selection Heralds Lots of London Work

09/04/2006 Katrina Anniversary Draws Calls and Vows for Change

09/04/2006 Crane Firm Settles In Workers Death

09/02/2006 Labor Shortages and Heartache Weigh Heavy on Mississippi Coast

08/31/2006 AFL-CIO To Spend Record $40 Million in Election Push

08/31/2006 Fluor in Pre-emptive Bid for U.K. Nuke Cleanup Firm

08/30/2006 U.S.-U.K. Teams Wins Contract to Plan 2012 Olympic Games

08/29/2006 Former Exec. Editor James Sullivan Dies

08/28/2006 Contractor's OSHA Violation Can Be Used by a Third Party

08/28/2006 Davoren To Assume Combined Role With Leppert's Departure

08/28/2006 Louisiana City Could Not Waive Even Minor Bid Requirements

08/25/2006 Federal Court Turns Down Challenge to Columbia River Dredging

08/24/2006 At Katrina Plus One Year, Strock Outlines New Plan for Corps

08/24/2006 After Bechtel and San Jose Hit Impasse, Hensel Phelps Steps In

08/23/2006 Canadian Leader Claims Most of Lumber Industry Backs Pact With U.S.

08/17/2006 Davoren to Succeed Leppert at a Reshaped Turner Corp.

08/17/2006 Canada Seeks Lumber Trade Pact Support by Aug. 21

08/14/2006 Army to Begin Search for New Chief of Corps

08/14/2006 Trifecta and Estate Tax Relief Are Rejected by Senate

08/14/2006 Laborers' Officials Admit Guilt In Federal Racketeering Case

08/11/2006 Gen. Strock to Leave as Corps of Engineers Chief

08/10/2006 Seattle Operating Engineers Strike Stretches to 9 Days

08/07/2006 Disney Settles with Contractors Over L.A. Concert Hall Overruns

08/07/2006 Productivity Benchmarking Effort Produces Results

08/07/2006 Ohio Supreme Court Limits Eminent Domain Actions

08/03/2006 Iraq IG Procurement Report Slams System Inefficiencies

07/31/2006 House Passes Pension Overhaul, Estate-Tax Cut, Minimum Wage Hike

07/31/2006 California Weighs Big Flood Measure

07/31/2006 Rental Firms' Recovery Leads to Investing Frenzy

07/26/2006 Structural Transition at Ground Zero

07/24/2006 Bureau of Reclamation Veteran Nominated to Head Agency

07/24/2006 California Agencies Struggle with Dearth of Project Bidders

07/24/2006 Big Changes Loom in Iraq For Reconstruction Forces

07/20/2006 Katrina Tailwinds: Corps Restructures To Manage $5.7 Billion in Civil Works

07/17/2006 New Jersey Shutdown Ends But Contractors Fear the Bill

07/17/2006 Los Angeles Litigation Lasts Over Treatment Plant Payout

07/17/2006 Frivolous Claims Cost Contractor in Lawsuit Against City

07/10/2006 Automotive Giant Commits New Projects to 3D Modeling

07/10/2006 Egyptian Design Engineer Acquitted of U.K. Criminal Charges

07/10/2006 Trial Needed in Asbestos Suit To Determine Knowledge Level

07/10/2006 Conditional Award Did Not Mean Bidder Was Responsible

07/06/2006 Corzine, Jersey Legislators Ending Stalemate

07/03/2006 Vendors Get Tough in Fight Against Gray Market Goods

06/26/2006 Interlaced Guy Wires Pull Down Undamaged Neighbor

06/26/2006 Making ‘Coopetition’ Work On Trade Center Projects

06/26/2006 California Project May Start in July

06/26/2006 Three Gorges Project Fight Leads to Rotec Bankruptcy

06/26/2006 IG To Review Parsons’ Jobs Amid a Pattern of Problems

06/26/2006 Feds Raid Jobsites In Enforcement Push

06/21/2006 House Bill Would Ease, Not Repeal, Estate Tax

06/19/2006 DOE Wants Bechtel Award Fees Repaid For Missing Job Costs

06/19/2006 Congress Allots Another $19.8 Billion for Gulf Relief

06/19/2006 Gulf Contractors Front Cost of Repairs

06/19/2006 Contractor Caught Copying In Software Copyright Case

06/12/2006 Ferrovial Buys Airport Operators

06/12/2006 Laborers Claim Victory After Four-Day Chicago Strike

06/09/2006 A Conversation with Louis and Dennis Astorino

06/08/2006 Repeal of Inheritance Tax Fails in Senate

06/06/2006 No Flood of Work In New Orleans

06/06/2006 Ferrovial Snags BAA From Goldman Sachs

06/05/2006 ‘Relationship’ Diagramming Proposed as New CPM Idea

06/05/2006 Owners Offer New Incentives To Lure Choosy Contractors

06/05/2006 Communications Blitz Is on for Storm Season

06/05/2006 Contractor Gets Its Full Costs Despite Cost-Sharing

06/05/2006 Gulf Coast Accident Refines Application of Federal Law

06/02/2006 Labor Dispute Shuts Down Construction in Midwest

05/29/2006 London Moves Fast to Push Program Manager Selection

05/22/2006 Owners Review Guideline, Support New Contracts Effort

05/22/2006 Feds Mull Eased Sarbanes-Oxley Rules For Small Publicly
Owned Companies

05/22/2006 Bush Signs $69-Billion Tax Bill

05/18/2006 London Olympic Bidders Down to Four Finalists

05/15/2006 WTC Memorials $972-Million Price May Prompt Redesign

05/15/2006 Construction Managers Face Dilemmas with New Tech Tool

05/15/2006 California Transportation Measure Is Up for November Vote

05/15/2006 In Ohio Engineers Election, Staying Positive Helped Victor

05/12/2006 Senate Passes $69-Billion Tax Cut Bill, Bush Will Sign It

05/08/2006 WTC Memorials $972-Million Price May Prompt Redesign

05/08/2006 U.S. DOT Is Cracking Down On DBE Contracting Fraud

05/08/2006 Future Needs Demand More Creative Solutions

05/08/2006 Cross-Atlantic Teams Seek London Program Management Job

05/08/2006 Innovative Structures Take Shape Amid Challenges

05/08/2006 Iraq Audit Cites Flaws, Progress

05/08/2006 U.S. and Canada Settle Bitter Lumber Dispute

05/05/2006 Six Charged for Big Dig Concrete Fraud

04/28/2006 U.S.-Canada Lumber Trade Deal Praised, Criticized

04/24/2006 3D/I Is the Latest Addition To Parsons Corp.'s Empire

04/24/2006 World Bank Sunshines Anti-Corruption Efforts

04/17/2006 Parsons Corp. Agrees to Acquire Houston-Based 3D/I

04/17/2006 Rinne Named Bureau of Reclamation's Acting Chief

04/17/2006 Los Angeles School District Sues Insurer Over Waste Terms

04/17/2006 FEMA Contracts Go To Small Business

04/10/2006 With a Burgeoning Backlog, PCL Puts Up 'Now Hiring' Sign

04/10/2006 Exports to Latin America Rise As Economies Gain Strength

04/03/2006 Service Construction Chiefs Seek Contract Coordination

03/30/2006 Longtime Leader Curtis Peltz Resigns from Timberline

03/29//2006 PCL Hangs Out the Now Hiring Sign

03/27/2006 N.J. May Disband Building Agency

03/27/2006 Unions and Open Shop, Each In Vegas, Plan Market Pushes

03/20/2006 House Approves $19.2 Billion More for Gulf Coast Rebuild

03/20/2006 In Dissecting Disaster Experts Dig for Clues

03/20/2006 House Mulls $19 Billion More For Gulf Coast Rebuilding

03/20/2006 Seattle Viaduct Decision Slated

03/20/2006 Parsons Brinckerhoff Slims, And Reorganizes Managers

03/16/2006 Senate Panel Clears Health-Plan Bill, But Outlook Unclear

03/14/2006 Perini Produced Wealth, Despite $40-million Charge

03/13/2006 Steel Sheet Pile Makers Form Group To Boost Product Use

03/13/2006 Pacific Northwest Prepares for Big One

03/07/2006 U.S., Mexico Sign Cement Import Pact

03/06/2006 Tutor-Saliba To Pay $19 million To Settle Airport Fraud Cases

03/06/2006 Turnpike Agency Drops Contractor

03/06/2006 Potential Evictees Cannot Challenge Stadium Costs

03/06/2006 A Lack of Damages Does Not Bar a Lawsuit over Cladding

03/06/2006 Willbros Workers Taken Hostage

03/06/2006 Natural Disasters Require Resiliency

02/27/2006 Louisiana Draws Clearer Strategy

02/27/2006 Pilot Plant Desalinates Seawater with Less Energy

02/27/2006 Investigators Question Levee Repair Work, Corps Defends It

02/27/2006 CH2M Hill Hires New President

02/24/2006 Columbus-based Contractor Defaults on Pennsylvania Project

02/24/2006 Columbia Invites Infrastructure Investment, But Is It Safe Enough?
Part 2 of a six-part series

02/20/2006 Infrastructure Work Starved By Loss of Funds to Security

02/20/2006 Construction Information Tools Merging

02/16/2006 Lawmakers Blast Response to Hurricanes

02/14/2006 Cement Prices Heading South? Only in South America
Part 1 of a Six-Part Series on Colombia

02/13/2006 CB&I Ousts Top Executives As Accounting Probe Goes On

02/13/2006 Iraq Moves to Transition Year As Charges Yield Guilty Plea

02/13/2006 Bush Proposal Takes Toll on Construction

02/13/2006 Deal Gives CONTECH Big Bucks To Target Further Growth

02/10/2006 Dems Draw Battle Lines for Bush Budget Fight

02/06/2006 CB&I Terminates Top Officers in Accounting Probe

02/06/2006 Bush Budget Plan Boosts Highways, Military Work, Trims Water Programs

02/06/2006 Halliburton Plans to Sell 20% Stake in Its KBR Unit

02/06/2006 Team Wins $1.1-Billion Award To Rebuild WTC Transit Hub

02/06/2006 Deadlock Over Plan To Rebuild Depopulated New Orleans

02/01/2006 At Confirmation Hearing, OSHA Nominee Pledges Employer
Outreach, Enforcement

01/30/2006 Ideas Floated for Hardening New Orleans Storm Defenses

01/30/2006 Concrete Outlook Looks Solid in '06

01/30/2006 U.S. and Mexico Reach Cement Import Deal

01/30/2006 General Contractor Liable for Subcontractor's DBE Breach

01/30/2006 Court Douses Contractor]s Fire Blanket Negligence Claim

01/30/2006 New Lithium-Ion Batteries Are Burning Up the Track

01/23/2006 Large Design Firms May Lead Specification Changes

01/23/2006 Cattle Renderings Could Fuel North American Cement Kilns

01/23/2006 New Orleans Rebuild Plans Taking Shape

01/20/2006 U.S. Mexico Reach Agreement in Principle on Cement Imports

01/19/2006 Federal AIDS Coordinator Named USAID Chief, Would Head Revamped Foreign Aid Effort

01/18/2006 Cement Economist: Shortages May Continue

01/17/2006 World of Concrete Organizers Predict Strong Show

01/16/2006 Corps Plans To Have New Orleans Flood Control Ready by June

01/16/2006 Levee Improvements Have Broad Appeal

01/02-09/2006 Kajima Outbids AECOM for Austin

01/02-09/2006 No Longer Showing in Vegas: Bovis Versus the Venetian

01/02-09/2006 Survivors Still Dealing with Poor Conditions

01/06/2006 Schwarzenegger Proposes $222-Billion Plan for California Growth