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| September 29, 2021 | High DBE Rates in Illinois Tollway’s $103m Contracts | Among the projects is a contract for the construction of a maintenance facility at the eastern end of the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway, or I-90. The addition of $103.3 million in contracts fr ...Read more |
| September 24, 2021 | FTA Grants Nearly $100m for Red Line Extension Near Portland Oregon | The extension will connect Beaverton, Portland International Airport, and the Gateway Center allowing passengers to travel from Hillsboro to the airport. The total cost of the project is $215 ...Read more |
| September 24, 2021 | USDOT Loans Louisiana $36.4m for Two Infrastructure Projects | The direct loan will help the state more quickly finance the Union Pacific Railroad Overpass Project and a highway project in the state: LA 3241: LA 435-LA 40 segment 3. The two projects are ...Read more |
| September 22, 2021 | Alaska Airports Get $42 Million Injection | The funding actually marks $257.4 million in funding for Alaska’s airports in Fiscal Year 2021 which have come from a total of 64 grants. |
| September 20, 2021 | Construction Starts Declined in August | August marked the third consecutive month of declines in total construction starts. While some sectors like commercial saw a modest increase of two percent, and manufacturing starts saw an encourag ...Read more |
| September 7, 2021 | Oregon’s Port of Coos Bay to get New $1b Container Facility, Rail Upgrades | The Port of Coos Bay in Oregon is just one of three major ports on the West Coast, so improvements to it are always welcomed. Earlier this month, the port entered into a memorandum of underst ...Read more |
| September 1, 2021 | Funding Allocated for Phase 2 of $415m PA Courthouse Project | Ground was broken on the Montgomery County Justice Center project on June 15 of this year. On August 19, officials in the county voted to fund the second phase of the project. The money will ...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 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 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 |