| 11/20/2009 | Fed. Funds Slow to Come to Repair Chinese Drywall in Fla.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
The Louisiana Legislature passed a law that allows the state to use $5 million in federal grants to repair homes with tainted Chinese drywall. |
| 11/20/2009 | N. D. Wind Farm Doubles In Size, Bringing Capacity to 99 MW
Associated Press/AP Online
WILTON, N.D. - The Wilton Wind Energy Center north of Bismarck, N.D., has doubled in size. |
| 11/20/2009 | MSU Gets Fed Funding To Study Wind Speeds in Mich.
Associated Press/AP Online
LANSING, Mich. - Michigan State University will receive $83,806 to measure wind speeds in five areas around the state. |
| 11/18/2009 | Norwegians Assess Maine's Wind Power Potential
Portland Press Herald
The visitors closely inspected the edge of plate steel cut by Bath Iron Works employees, moving on a tour through the sounds of grinding metal in one of the shipyard's assembly buildings. |
| 10/23/2009 | VRH Constr. Corp. Awarded $59M Contract for Newark Airport Project
Record, The; Bergen County, N.J.
An Englewood firm has won a contract worth nearly $59 million to build a new domestic departures hall in Terminal B of Newark Liberty International Airport. |
| 11/20/2009 | Floods Devastate UK Lake District; Much of Ireland
Associated Press/AP Online
COCKERMOUTH, England - A British police officer was swept to his death Friday as raging floods engulfed northern England's picturesque Lake District following the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain. |
| 11/19/2009 | TxDOT Rejects Plea for Dallas-Fort Worth Road Funding
The Dallas Morning News
Nov. 19--AUSTIN -- The Texas Transportation Commission today rejected pleas from North Texas leaders who urged the commission to spend more on new road construction in the greater Dallas area. |
| 11/18/2009 | Bill Would Stop Insurers from Dropping Chinese Drywall Homes
The Bradenton Herald (Bradenton, Fla.)
Nov. 18--MANATEE -- A federal bill filed Tuesday would prohibit insurers from canceling or altering coverage of homes because they contain defective Chinese drywall, but experts said its chances of passage appear remote. |
| 11/19/2009 | TxDOT Commission Approves $79M Freeway from IH-10 to Franklin Mtns.
El Paso Times
Nov. 19--EL PASO -- The state will build a freeway along Transmountain Road from Interstate 10 west to the start of the Franklin Mountains State Park, the Texas Transportation Commission voted today. |
| 11/19/2009 | Primoris Services Corp. to Acquire James Construction Group
PrimeNewswire
LAKE FOREST, Calif., Nov. 19, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Primoris Services Corporation (Nasdaq:PRIM) (Nasdaq:PRIMU) (Nasdaq:PRIMW) ("Primoris" or the "Company") today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire James Construction Group, L.L.C. ("James Construction Group"), one of the largest privately-held construction companies in the southeastern United States, in a transaction valued at approximately $135 million. |
| 11/19/2009 | Wyo. Lawmakers Decline To Endorse Wind Tax
Associated Press/AP Online
CHEYENNE, Wyo. - A Wyoming legislative committee voted against sponsoring two bills to tax wind energy development. |
| 11/19/2009 | VDOT Road Budget Slashes Another $851.5M
The Virginian-Pilot
Nov. 19--RICHMOND -- State transportation officials delivered another round of bad but not unexpected news on Wednesday when they laid out plans to further slash $851.5 million from road-building operations over the next six years. |
| 11/19/2009 | Judge Slams Corps of Engineers in Katrina Flood Ruling
Los Angeles Times
In a ruling that could leave the government open to billions of dollars in claims from Hurricane Katrina victims, a federal judge said late Wednesday that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had displayed "gross negligence" in failing to maintain a navigation channel -- resulting in levee breaches that flooded large swaths of greater New Orleans. |
| 11/18/2009 | Honolulu Mayor Inks Labor Pact for $5.4B Rail Project
Associated Press/AP Online
HONOLULU - Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann and 12 local labor unions have inked an agreement that will pay union workers prevailing wages to build Honolulu's rail transit project while guaranteeing that they cannot delay construction by striking. |
| 11/18/2009 | AIA: Architects Getting More Contracts
Los Angeles Times
After more than a year of meager activity, the nation's architects reported a growing number of new contracts in October from builders preparing to get real estate developments off the ground. |
| 11/18/2009 | OpEd: Calif. Should Have Sought Fed Funds for Commuter Rail
Merced Sun-Star
Nov. 18--The train is leaving the station for federal stimulus funds and, once again, it appears that California commuter rail will be taking up the rear. |
| 11/18/2009 | NYC Lab Faces Trial Over Questioned Concrete Tests
Associated Press/AP Online
NEW YORK - The charges shook the foundation of the city's construction industry: Prosecutors said concrete strength tests had been faked for ground zero's centerpiece tower, the new Yankee Stadium and dozens of other projects. |
| 11/18/2009 | Texas A&M Remembers Fatal '99 Bonfire Collapse
Associated Press/AP Online
COLLEGE STATION, Texas - Members of the Texas A&M University community say the bonfire collapse that killed 12 people and injured 27 others a decade ago has brought them closer as a family. |
| 11/18/2009 | George W. Bush Presidential Center Design Unveiled
The Dallas Morning News
Nov. 18--The design of the George W. Bush Presidential Center at SMU, which will be formally unveiled today, is a showcase for exhibits, not a monument to the 43rd president, former first lady Laura Bush said this week. |
| 11/17/2009 | Texas Officials: We're Running Out of Water
Associated Press/AP Online
FORT WORTH, Texas - With the Texas population expected to nearly double over the next 50 years, lawmakers and water experts gathered Monday to convey an important message: We're running out of water. |
| 11/17/2009 | Tutor Perini Awarded $215M Caldecott Tunnel Project
Business Wire
Tutor Perini Corporation (NYSE: TPC), a leading civil and building construction company, announced that CALTRANS of California has informed the Company that it has been awarded a $215 million contract for construction of the fourth bore tunnel at the Caldecott Tunnel section of Highway 24 in Alameda and Contra Costa countiesnear Oakland, California. |
| 11/18/2009 | Rockies Express Pipeline Fully Operational
Associated Press/AP Online
CHEYENNE, Wyo. - A 1,679-mile pipeline crossing eight states is now fully completed and funneling natural gas from Wyoming and Colorado to the eastern edge of Ohio. |
| 11/17/2009 | Kent State Planning $200M in Improvements
Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio)
Nov. 17--Kent State trustees agreed Tuesday to invest up to $200 million to improve the Kent campus, the first major upgrade since the early 1970s. |
| 11/17/2009 | Energy Dept. Zero-Energy Laboratory in Colo. Under Way
Associated Press/AP Online
GOLDEN, Colo. - Homes and office buildings consume three-quarters of U.S. electricity, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory wants to lower that figure by erecting what it believes will be the largest "net-zero" energy building in the world - one that produces as much power onsite as it uses. |
| 11/16/2009 | Lawmakers Blast ConnDOT for Awarding $1M Job to Disqualified Contractor
The Hartford Courant, Connecticut
Nov. 16--State lawmakers today blasted the Department of Transportation for awarding a $1 million bridge contract to Barr Inc., a Putnam firm disqualified from doing public building construction in Massachusetts and under investigation by the Connecticut Department of Labor. |
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