Industry CEO Panel Focuses on Workforce & Safety Issues
Left to right: Greg Kelly, president & CEO, WSP USA; Bob Alger, president & CEO, Lane Industries, Inc.; Jean Vidal, president & CEO, Colas USA; Steve Morriss, president, Design and Consulting Services, Americas, AECOM; Richard Cavallaro, president &...
ARTBA Convention Tackles Transportation Resilience
Stanford’s Mike Steep By Mark Holan, editorial director, ARTBA Attendees at ARTBA’s 2018 National Convention and Dr. J. Don Brock TransOvation Workshop™ focused on the serious need to build and maintain smart and resilient U.S. transportation...
Transportation Builders Urged to Explore Federal “Opportunity Zones”
Dr. Stephen Flynn at the 2018 ARTBA National Convention By Mark Holan, editorial director, ARTBA Rebuilding America’s infrastructure should be “a national, societal imperative,” resiliency expert Dr. Stephen Flynn Oct. 1 told attendees at ARTBA’s National Convention...
Highway & Bridge Construction Employment Grows in July
By Lital Shair Nada, market research associate, ARTBA Highway and bridge construction employment increased by 2.4 percent in July, the fourth consecutive year of gains during the seventh month. Contractors hired an additional 8,800 workers compared to July 2017,...
The Four “R’s” of Resilience in Transportation Infrastructure
Goethals Bridge, New York. Photo by Andy Ryan, courtesy of HNTB. By Ted Zoli To explore the idea of resilience in the context of transportation infrastructure, it is useful to consider its opposite—fragility. Both terms—fragility and resiliency—can be applied with the...Advertisements:
