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| August 26, 2021 | EPA Creates Diversity Task Force, Will Spend More With DBEs | Earlier this month, an internal EPA email was obtained by E&E news. In it, Deputy Administrator Janet McCabe told employees of the agency that a “diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (D ...Read more |
| August 24, 2021 | Building Material Prices Won’t Stabilize Until Summer 2022 | The sky-high costs of construction materials due to the coronavirus pandemic are a topic we ...Read more |
| August 23, 2021 | Massachusetts Wind Farm’s Union Priority at Odds With Workforce Diversity | On May 11, the Biden Administration’s Secretary of Interior, Deb Haaland, and the Secretary of Commerce, Gina Raimondo, announced the approval of the construction of the Vineyard Wind project. Th ...Read more |
| August 20, 2021 | Contract Awarded for $840M VA Hospital in Kentucky | The 910,115-square-foot medical center will be built by Turner Construction and Walsh Construction as a joint venture. It will feature 104 beds, a facility for female veterans, two parking structur ...Read more |
| August 20, 2021 | Port of Long Beach Completes $1.4b Terminal Project | The Long Beach Container Terminal (LBCT) at Middle Harbor uses “nearly all electric and zero-emissions equipment, the Port of Long Beach said in a press release today. The port itself is th ...Read more |
| August 18, 2021 | Texas Wraps Up Phase 1 of $527m Highway Project Near San Antonio | The HOV lanes, which are between Stone Oak Parkway and Loop 1604 near San Antonio are part of the first phase of a two-phase, $527 million regional project, called the US 281 North Expansion Projec ...Read more |
| August 17, 2021 | SBA is Working With Congress to Codify Biden’s Raised DBE Goals | In an exclusive interview with Federa ...Read more |
| August 16, 2021 | US Blew $30b on Afghanistan Construction Programs | Here at Contractor News, we like to talk a lot about what we call the three C’s: contracting, construction, and corruption. Though we typically cover domestic issues, Afghanistan is a story that ...Read more |
| August 13, 2021 | New Orleans Convention Center Must Vote Again on Contract Bids | The development follows challenges from bidders who did not secure the contract for hundreds of millions in upgrades to the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Allegations of irregularities i ...Read more |
| August 12, 2021 | Study Says Public Private Partnerships Have Higher DBE Participation | Researchers at the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering published a study recently by professor Qingbin Cui and doctoral student Kinqi Zhang in the journal Transportation ...Read more |