Ellen Knickmeyer - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Wed August 02, 2017
DWR Approves $16B Water Tunnels, Assures Financiers
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) The main California agency promoting Gov. Jerry Brown's proposed $16 billion water tunnels gave its expected approval to the project on July 21. The move by the Department of Water Resources, which is helping shepherd Brown's tunnels project over the regulatory and financial hurdles it must clear to break ground, endorsed the tunnels as a sound step environmentally....
Tue August 08, 2017
PIRTEK Continues Expansion, Opens Orange Location
PIRTEK OC opened in Orange, Calif., in mid-June, the seventh PIRTEK in California, as the company continues to add new locations across the United States. PIRTEK provides onsite hydraulic and industrial hose replacement sales and services to a number of different industries....
Wed August 02, 2017
I-405 Highway Project Aims to Tap $627M TIFIA Loan
The Orange County Transportation Authority expects to soon close on a $627 million federal infrastructure loan, after its board voted 16-0 June 26 to sign final loan documents to help pay for a major capacity expansion project in a 16-mi....
Wed August 02, 2017
AECOM to Acquire California's Shimmick Construction
AECOM, a fully integrated global infrastructure firm, and Shimmick Construction announced a definitive agreement for AECOM to acquire Shimmick, a heavy civil construction market company in the California and western United States....
Wed August 02, 2017
Gas-Tax Begins to Fund Road Work
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) Californians will see construction start this month on the first state road repair projects resulting from the new gas tax hike, the state's transportation agency said Friday....
Chuck Harvey - Wed August 02, 2017
$105M Project Expands University of Wyoming
Walls are going up on a $105 million, 100,000-sq.-ft. Engineering Education and Research Building at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyo. It is the largest construction project in the university's history....
Chuck Harvey - Wed August 02, 2017
LA's New $2.66B Stadium to Debut in 2020
Work has kicked into full gear on a futuristic $2.66 billion football stadium that broke ground in Inglewood in mid-November 2016, but bogged down in mud during a wet Southern California winter. The new stadium will sit on a 298-acre site....
Susan Montoya Bryan - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Wed August 02, 2017
Facebook Plans to Expand New Mexico Data Center
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Facebook's plans for New Mexico now call for a half-billion-dollar investment and a data center that will span an area equal to 17 football fields. Gov. Susana Martinez's office announced on July 18 that the social media giant will be doubling its investment in the state with the planned expansion of its data center currently under construction near Los Lunas, a rural area just outside of Albuquerque, N.M.'s largest metropolitan area....
Wed August 02, 2017
Colorado's Wildlife Safety Mitigation Efforts Prove Beneficial
One evening in early April, Deb, a Southwest Colorado resident, was traveling on U.S. Highway 160 near Mancos when she hit a deer. “Well, that deer actually hit me,” Deb explained. “I did not have a moment to react....
Wed August 02, 2017
Nevada Builders Alliance Presents Visa Program to Boost Worker Shortage
Nevada Builders Alliance presented its newest program to assist construction and construction-related companies in relieving some of the pressure felt by the shortage of skilled construction workers in Nevada at a recent luncheon in Reno....
