ConDig (15-Feb18). Civil contractor and construction materials producer Granite Construction Inc is to snap up contractor, water management and drilling service provider Layne Christensen Co in a stock-for-stock $565 million deal. The Watsonville, California-based company…
ConDig (13-Feb-18). Leaders of the U.S. construction industry have tacitly backed long-awaited details of President Trump’s $1.5 trillion infrastructure upgrade plan. The bill earmarks $200 billion in federal funds designed to generate at least $1.5…
ConDig (09-Feb-18). General contractor and construction manager Hensel Phelps Construction Co. has bagged a $74.9 million deal to build a behavioral health and dental clinic addition for the US army at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. Under…
ConDig (07-Feb-19). Profit at Jacobs Engineering Group Inc tumbled in its fiscal first quarter as the global engineering firm faced higher costs associated with closing its purchase of rival CH2M Hill Cos Ltd, while overall…
ConDig (01-Feb-18). A subsidiary of Sterling Construction Co has secured a $136 million deal to upgrade sections of the I-15 highway in Utah. Under the deal with the Utah Department of Transportation, Ralph L. Wadsworth…
ConDig (31-Jan-18). Leaders of the US construction industry have backed renewed calls by President Trump for a $1.5 trillion investment in infrastructure over the next ten years. In his State of the Union address on…
ConDig (30-Jan-18). A total of three contractors are set to share in a $85 million contract to upgrade paving at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. The contractors selected include Brinkerhoff Excavating and Construction Inc, Ogden,…
ConDig (29-Jan-18). A consortium led by ACS Group and Hochtief has been selected for a $1.5 billion rail project at Los Angeles International airport. Under the 25-year public-private partnership project, the team will plan, finance,…
ConDig (25-Jan-18). Harper Construction Co Inc has landed a $127.9 million contract to build a maintenance hangar for the F-35 Lightning fighter jet in Miramar, San Diego, California. Under the design-bid-build contract with the Naval…
ConDig (24-Jan-18). A Huntsville, Alabama-based concrete contractor faces fines of $59,864 for exposing workers on a site in Florida to fall hazards and eye injuries. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Action Concrete…