With increasing demands placed on the planet through population growth and urbanization, energy remains one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century. Buildings are one of the largest consumers of global resources and all energy produced, and are primary…
ConstructConnect’s U.S. Construction Starts Summer Forecast Shows Construction Starts Rose by 1.4% Year-on-Year in Q2 2018
CINCINNATI – ConstructConnect, a leading provider of construction information and technology solutions in North America, announced today the release…
EIA Releases August’s U.S. Short-Term Energy Forecast
The U.S. Energy Information Administration released its Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) on Tuesday, August 7, 2018. Forecast Highlights Global liquid…
Engineered Solutions: Accelerated Vegetation Establishment on Caltrans Fire Reclamation Site
Sponsored By: By Adam Dibble, CPESC-IT, CESSWI, and Matt Welch, CPESC, CESSWI In December 2017, the Freeway Fire ignited the brush along the Interstate 210/Interstate 15 interchange near Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. Due to high winds,…
Caltrans Begins Recovery Work Even as Carr Wildfire Rages
Despite being only 30 percent contained, Caltrans work crews and contractors are now entering areas burnt out by the Carr wildfire in northern California – now considered to be the ninth worst in state history – to catalog the damage done to transportation…
July – August 2018 TRENDS
In this section, Informed Infrastructure compiles infographics from trusted sources that reveal insight on infrastructure spending. We also compile some of the top infrastructure stories that shouldn’t be missed. For ongoing news coverage, turn to Informed…
Global Water Market to Reach $915 Billion by 2023 as Oil and Commodity Prices Recover, New GWI Forecasts Reveal
The global water market is projected to reach a total value of $914.9 billion in 2023, according to the latest 2018-2023 forecasts published by Global Water Intelligence (GWI). GWI’s market research linked this growth to a recovering global economy, high…
Six Regional Reports Highlight Boost to California Localities from Transportation Investment in SB 1
Reports at www.artba.org Illustrate Benefits to Orange County; Los Angeles County; Inland Empire; San Diego and Imperial Counties; San Francisco Bay Area; & San Joaquin Valley (WASHINGTON) - A series of six new reports find that an April 2017 California…
New Report: The Unsustainable Rising Cost of Electricity Generation
A new report has been released that found that the costs to operate and maintain U.S. power plants and equipment have soared 74 percent over the past two decades. The report is based on 20 years of data that utilities submit to the U.S. Federal Energy…
Shuster Lays Out ‘Framework’ for Infrastructure Discussion
Outgoing Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Penn., released a 108-page "infrastructure proposal" on July 23 that he hopes can serve as a "discussion draft" that is intended to "further the national conversation about the current state of America's infrastructure and highlight…
