Quick Turnaround: Biloxi Bridge Delivered in Record Time - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The first two lanes of the new U.S. Hwy. 90 Bridge over Biloxi Bay in Mississippi opened to traffic November 1, 2007, less than 18 months after the contractor received the notice to proceed from the Missis
Publication Date: 02 November , 2007
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Southern California Blazes Bring Scorching Results - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The hardest-hit area is San Diego County, where five separate fires caused all seven fatalities and burned more than 1,050 homes. The emergency prompted locally-based Kleinfelder Inc. to stay closed on Oct. 22 as half of its 140-person office st
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Publication Date: 31 October , 2007
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BP to Pay $60-Million Fine For Explosion, Oil Spills - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
In two plea agreements with the Justice Dept., units of energy giant BP agreed to pay a $62-million criminal fine for breaking federal environmental laws in a
Publication Date: 25 October , 2007
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Southeast Drought Sparks Brawls But Reuse Meets One Utility’s Needs - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Publication Date: 24 October , 2007
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Tempest on a Trailer Delivers Big Storms on Demand - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Engineers and students from the University of Florida brewed up a hurricane for building-code officials, manufacturers of exterior building products and others attending the American Architectural Ma
Publication Date: 24 October , 2007
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Labor of Love: Journalists Keep New Orleans' Story Alive - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The American public will not soon forget the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, nor the ensuing chaos that revealed the greater implications of everything that is broken in our societ
Publication Date: 22 October , 2007
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Deep-Storage Regulations To Be Developed for Carbon - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Positive but muted response greeted the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s announcement of its plans to develop regulations for storing carbon dioxide in deep geologic formations. Industry repres
Publication Date: 17 October , 2007
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Unstable San Diego Hill Was Monitored - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The hilly area where a massive landslide sent houses tumbling and caused an estimated $48 million of damage in San Diego's affluent La Jolla neighborhood had been monitored by the city since roadway cracks
Publication Date: 17 October , 2007
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San Diego Landslide Trashes Neighborhood - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
A massive landslide Oct. 3 in San Diego's affluent La Jolla neighborhood caused an estimated $48million worth of damage. Gov. Arnold Schwarzengger (R) declared a state of emergency five days later,
Publication Date: 10 October , 2007
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Utility Agrees to Costly Air Pollution Settlement - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
In the largest environmental enforcement settlement in U.S. history, Columbus, Ohio-based American Electric Power has agreed to cut 813,000 tons of air pollutants at 16 of its coal plants annually at an es
Publication Date: 09 October , 2007
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Las Vegas Looks Beyond the Colorado To Slake Its Thirst - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Las Vegas is not known as a dry town but 20 years of booming growth has left it parched. The drought-wracked desert city has been the nation’s fastest growing for over a decade, according to the U.S.
Publication Date: 03 October , 2007
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Recharged Aquifer Keeps Wichita’s Water Flowing - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The High Plains Aquifer is one of the world’s greatest sources of fresh water, sprawling beneath 175,000 sq miles in parts of eight states from South Dakota to Texas and holding 2,980 million ac
Publication Date: 03 October , 2007
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Boh Executive Works to Woo Insurers- ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Through his efforts to obtain coverage for contractors rebuilding New Orleans, Warren Perkins may be on his way to changing the way the insurance industry views risk-and bring them back to flood-prone area
Publication Date: 28 September, 2007
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$9-Billion Cocktail Proposed for California’s Thirst - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
California is girding up for a huge program of water-resource improvements funded by a proposed $9-billion bond issue. The program could see the first construction of new dams by the state since the 1970s
Publication Date: 26 September, 2007
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New Orleans Levee Board Backs Corps Plan - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers won a round on Sept. 20 by gaining permission from authorities to raise the safe-water elevation in one of New Orleans’ key outfall canals.
Publication Date: 26 September, 2007
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Stopping Sprawl Will Aid Planet - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
A key strategy for countering the effects of increasing vehicular traffic on global warming would be to build more compact communities, says a just-released report by the Urban Land Institute. Re
Publication Date: 26 September, 2007
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Conditions Met, NOLA Board Backs Corps Pumping Plan - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
As New Orleanians were watching and worrying whether a tropical depression in the Gulf of Mexico gains enough strength to become tropical storm Jerry, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers achieved a victory on
Publication Date: 21 September, 2007
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Environmental Market Continues Upward Push Despite Funding Woes - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Despite disruptions in funding in the wastewater market, the environmental market overall is showing signs of strength, and the outlook looks positive for more growth ahead as critical infrastructure conti
Publication Date: 19 September, 2007
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Court Blocks Water For Nevada Site- ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The U.S. Dept. of Energy has suffered another legal setback in pursuit of a Yucca Mountain national nuclear waste repository, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. U.S. District Judge Roger L. Hunt on Sept. 4 r
Publication Date: 12 September, 2007
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New Risk Maps Predict Effects of Improvements to Flood Protections - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has released maps delineating the flood risk that will remain in New Orleans after proposed 100-year hurricane protections are in place. The Corps also released its estimat
Publication Date: 03 September, 2007
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Levee and Floodwall Load Test Is Handled With Extreme Care- ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
For the first time, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is conducting a site-specific load test on an active piece of a flood protection system. It is loading a heavily instrumented, 150-ft-long section of le
Publication Date: 29 August , 2007
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Answering Critics: Corps Reconstruction Leaders in New Orleans Have Their Say- ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
New Orleans, Louisiana and the Corps of Engineers have recently been badly reviewed by critics in national media outlets. Engineering News-Record wanted to hear the Corps' response to some of the criticisms being made and to ask its reconstruct
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Publication Date: 29 August , 2007
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New Risk Maps Predict Effects of Improvements- ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has released maps delineating the flood risk that will remain in New Orleans after proposed 100-year hurricane protections are in place. The Corps also released its estimat
Publication Date: 24 August , 2007
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Cleanup and Reconstruction From Peru Quake May Take Years - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
After days of searching for survivors of the magnitude 8.0 earthquake that struck Peru on Aug. 15, rescuers turned to recovering bodies and President Alan Garcia called in engineers.
Publication Date: 21 August , 2007
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DOE Orders Stopped Hanford Work to Restart - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman Aug. 15 ordered construction to resume after nearly three years on the $12-billion nuclear waste-treatment plant being built by Bechtel National at the Hanford Site in Washin
Publication Date: 16 August , 2007
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Free Online Tool Calculates a Building's Embodied Carbon- ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
A digital tool is currently available that determines the embodied carbon in a building project. Not only is the construction carbon calculator free, it is almost as easy to use as “one, two, three.&
Publication Date: 15 August , 2007
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Getting a Grip On California Levee Risk - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Californians are waking up to disaster. Or at least they are waking up to the prospect of a flood and water-supply disaster awaiting them the day key Central Valley levees let go, overwhelmed by roaring ri
Publication Date: 01 August , 2007
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California Tries To Buck Odds Until Levee System Is Fixed- ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
California has experienced 160 levee failures on the past century and the odds are even that there will be “20 failures in the Delta in the next 25 years,” says William Marcuson III, president
Publication Date: 25 July , 2007
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Israel Seeks To Double Nation's Desalination Capacity by 2013 - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Construction began in late June on Israel's third major desalination project, which will boost that type of water supply to 230 million cubic meters per year by 2010. But officials approved plans earlier this month to more than double capacity b
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Publication Date: 25 July , 2007
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Quake Damage to Japan Plant: Minor or Major Concern? - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The full significance of a 6.6 Richter Scale earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan's Niigata Prefecture on July 16 still was not clear, especially for the future of nuclear power. At least 9 died a
Publication Date: 17 July , 2007
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New Report Parses Hurricane Defenses - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
An exhaustive draft report analyzes the half-century-long chain of considerations and decisions, across all levels of authority, that lay behind the design and construction of the New Orleans hurricane pro
Publication Date: 11 July , 2007
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Alaska Facilities Confront Rapidly Warming Temperatures - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Nothing in a new study on the impact of climate change on Alaska infrastructure and construction surprises Michael Rabe, managing principal of CRW Engineering Group, LLC, Anchorage. The report, released la
Publication Date: 10 July , 2007
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Nation's Center Is Under Water But Infrastructure Damage Is Light - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Major infrastructure escaped serious damage in floods from weeks of heavy rains in several states in the center of the nation. In Texas, which saw some of the most extreme storms, a multimillion-dollar cap
Publication Date: 05 July , 2007
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New Risk and Reliability Tools May Drive Policy Shift - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The top U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officer for civil works says new risk and reliability assessment tools developed since Hurricane Katrina will help the Corps more clearly explain the importance of haza
Publication Date: 04 July , 2007
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Powerful New Tool Is Key To Reducing Risk - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Planners and citizens of New Orleans now have a powerful new tool to guide their reconstruction decisions, a flood-risk analysis system developed by scientists working for the U.S. Army Corps of Engi
Publication Date: 27 June , 2007
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The 2007 Top 200 Environmental Firms: Winning Market Share, and Buying It - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
In both the private and public sectors, sustainability and attention to resource cleanup, protection and reuse are the trends of the day. The Top 200 Environmental Firms have been engaged in all sectors of
Publication Date: 27 June , 2007
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High Court Sides With EPA, Industry In Endangered Species Act - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court said June 25 that the Endangered Species Act does not override the Clean Water Act and that states have the authority to issue clean water permits even if doing so could
Publication Date: 25 June , 2007
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EPA to Propose Tighter Ozone Standard - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The Environmental Protection Agency has announced that it plans to propose tightening the air quality standards for ground level ozone for the first time since 1997.
Publication Date: 22 June , 2007
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Examples of Risk and Reliability Products - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Scientists working for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have taken many of the lessons learned during their exhaustive analysis of the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the New Orleans flood defenses and have
Publication Date: 21 June , 2007
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Power Hazard Forecasting Tool Gives New Orleans New Map - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Sections of New Orleans remain flood-prone, but at least now residents can see where waters are most likely to rise after a storm.
Publication Date: 21 June , 2007
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Israel To Lift Restrictions on Plant Development- ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Israel has decided to lift all limits on water desalination plants to increase the amount of desalinated water to meet the growing shortage of supply. By the end of June, the National Infrastructure Minist
Publication Date: 14 June , 2007
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Internal Corps Report Cites Procurement Flaws - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
In its rush to restore New Orleans' hurricane protection system to pre-Katrina levels by the 2006 hurricane season, and then to rapidly increase pump capacity at the city's outfall canals by the 2007 seaso
Publication Date: 13 June , 2007
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Large Water Tanks Spur Safety Questions- ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
As security concerns and federal water-quality regulations push authorities to cover more U.S. reservoirs or use large steel or concrete storage tanks for potable water supply, new questions are emerging o
Publication Date: 13 June , 2007
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Delta Cutoff Leads
to Conservation - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Strained by a record drought, Southern California’s water supply was pushed over the edge by the presence of an endangered fish 350 miles north in the Sacramento- San Joaquin Delta. The state shut down a pumping station to prote
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Publication Date: 12 June , 2007
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EPA-Corps Document Aims to Clarify Wetlands Authority - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Nearly a year after the Supreme Court ruled on the scope of federal wetlands regulation, the Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers have issued regulatory guidance that agency official
Publication Date: 07 June , 2007
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Live Tapping Method Takes Pain Out of Pipe Surgery- ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
A high-pressure water main buried 9 ft below O’Hare International Airport won’t be putting the stopper on 600,000 Chicago-area residents. Though it once stood in the way of the airfield’s
Publication Date: 06 June , 2007
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New Orleans Disaster Blamed On Decades of Bad Decisions- ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
In a report issued on the first day of hurricane season by the American Society of Civil Engineers, a panel of its experts gives opinions about what went wrong and why in New Orleans during Hurricane
Publication Date: 06 June , 2007
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NOLA Inspection Tour Focuses on Construction- ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Construction industry leaders are gathering in New Orleans this week to brainstorm about national workforce shortage challenges. They will also take a hard look at some of the flood-ravaged areas during br
Publication Date: 04 June , 2007
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Bush Proposes International Greenhouse Gas Limits- ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
President Bush has proposed that the U.S. and other major industrialized nations join to set “a long-term global goal” by the end of 2008 for cutting emissions of greenhouse gases. But environm
Publication Date: 31 May , 2007
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Load Ratings of Drainage Canals Become Sore Point in New Orleans - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Reinforcement of 2,500 ft of flood walls on New Orleans’ largest outfall canal will make it strong enough for this hurricane season, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials say. But the load capacity
Publication Date: 30 May , 2007
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New York Awards Filtration Construction to High Bidder- ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The May 11 award of a contract to build a water filtration plant in the Bronx marks a milestone in New York City’s decade-long struggle to comply with a consent decree from the U.S. Environmental Pro
Publication Date: 30 May , 2007
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Thirsty Oil Sands May Threaten River - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The oil sands in Alberta, Canada, generate about 1.2 million barrels of crude oil a day and there are plans for 10 more oil companies to join the four already operating in the area in the next few years. I
Publication Date: 30 May , 2007
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17th St. Canal O.K., Corps Says, But Not So for London Ave. - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Reinforcements of 2,500 ft. of levee walls on the 17th Street outfall drainage canal in New Orleans will be complete in time to let that canal perform its storm water drainage function during the 2007 hurr
Publication Date: 25 May , 2007
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Asbestos Abatement Approach Found More Efficient in EPA Test- ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
A new technique to remove asbestos from an old building at Fort Chaffee, Ark., was cheaper and more efficient than the traditional method, a draft U.S. Environmental Protection Agency report concludes.
Publication Date: 23 May , 2007
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Asbestos Abatement Approach Found More Efficient in EPA Test- ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
A new technique to remove asbestos from an old building at Fort Chaffee, Ark., was cheaper and more efficient than the traditional method, a draft U.S. Environmental Protection Agency report concludes.
Publication Date: 23 May , 2007
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Water Resources Bill, the Sequel, Heads to House-Senate Conference- ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Congressional lawmakers who oversee U.S. Army Corps of Engineers policy may be feeling a bit of dŽjˆ vu. They soon will be heading back to the negotiating table to work out differences between bi
Publication Date: 23 May , 2007
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Water Resources Bill, the Sequel, Heads to House-Senate Conference- ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Congressional lawmakers who oversee U.S. Army Corps of Engineers policy may be feeling a bit of dŽjˆ vu. They soon will be heading back to the negotiating table to work out differences between bi
Publication Date: 23 May , 2007
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Senate Passes $13.9-Billion WRDA Bill - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The Senate has approved a water resources measure that authorizes $13.9 billion for dozens of Army Corps of Engineers river locks, dredging and environmental projects around the country. The measure, appro
Publication Date: 17 May , 2007
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Las Vegas Builds Sustainable 'Central Park'- ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Las Vegas is flexing its green thumb with a new $250-million, 180-acre project consisting of energy-efficient buildings and low-water gardens. The “
Publication Date: 14 May , 2007
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ACP Releases First Tender for Panama Canal Excavation - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The Panama Canal Authority tendered the first contract for the $5.25-billion canal expansion on May 14, marking the start of outside participation in the massive upgrade to the historic waterway.
Publication Date: 14 May , 2007
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