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• F.N.B. Corp., the parent columbus oh aggregate supply company of First National Bank (FNB), announced that its regional headquarters will anchor a new 31-story, mixed-use tower in Charlotte, North Carolina, according to a statement from the company.

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• The backlog of nonresidential construction projects in Q4 2017 rose 2.25% from the third quarter to 9.67 months, the highest Construction Backlog Indicator (CBI) reading ever, according to the Associated Builders and Contractors.

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• The Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) has approved Harvard University's initial plan for a 36-acre Enterprise research Campus (ERC), according to the Boston Real Estate Times.

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• The Center for Construction Research and Training (CPWR) in a recent report revealed that the number of fatal construction caught-in and caught-between injuries increased 33% from 2011 to 2015, topping the overall 26% increase in construction fatalities for that same period.

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• Clark Construction, the general contractor for the $2.5 billion mixed-use development, The Wharf, in Washington, DC, has filed a $5 million breach of contract lawsuit against architect Perkins Eastman alleging the design documents for the project's first phase contained substantial errors and omissions.

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• The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) is moving forward with a $275 million plan to convert a stretch of U.S.

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• Indeed's 2018 list of the 25 best jobs in the U.S. includes nine construction positions – the most of any industry – with commercial project manager taking the top spot.

Approximately 250,000 people leave military service each year and begin the often bumpy process of re-entering civilian life, a large part of which is finding a suitable career.

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• With a $4.5 billion capital program already underway, the Port of Long Beach is pursuing a zero emissions goal with the help of a new on-dock rail project, according to Engineering News-Record.

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• FedEx Corp. announced that it is investing $1 billion to upgrade and increase the size of its Memphis, Tennessee, processing hub, according to the Times Free Press.

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• Boston Properties could be in the early planning stages for a three-tower office development on the site of a surface parking lot in San Jose, California, near the San Jose Convention Center, according to The Mercury News.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) holds a panel on state and national drug law each year at its employment law and legislative conference, but this year, shifts in state law — and deep tragedy — have brought the issue to the forefront.

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• In a draft of its annual business plan, the California High Speed Rail Authority revealed that the construction cost of a bullet train between Northern and Southern California increased from $67 billion to $77.3 billion, and that the first phase will not be operational until 2029, four years behind schedule, according to the Los Angeles Times.

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• According to an Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) analysis of information provided by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), February's construction material prices continued January's climb with a month-over-month increase of 0.7%.

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• Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser has announced the opening of the District of Columbia Infrastructure Academy (DCIA), which will train workers for jobs in the city's infrastructure industry, according to the an Associated Press article in U.S.

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• Exxon Mobil Corp. is considering a multibillion-dollar expansion of its U.S. Gulf Coast facilities that could double the region's light crude refining capabilities and make its Beaumont, Texas, location the largest refinery (by capacity) in North America, according to The Advocate.

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• Salt Lake City International Airport officials said the facility's redesign is still on budget and on target for a 2020 completion, according to the Deseret News, albeit at a price tag of $3.6 billion, which is double of the original cost estimate.

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• Serious Labs introduced an Aerial Virtual Reality Training Simulator, which combines the company's scissor lift and boom lift modules to provide an aerial operator training solution, reported ForConstructionPros.com.

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• Sixty-seven commercial buildings were verified as net energy in the U.S. and Canada in 2017, with another 415 in construction or in the evaluation process, according to a New Buildings Institute study titled "2018 Getting to Zero Status Update.

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• Microsoft says business leaders must empower employees and drive growth through digitalization — but that having digital tools isn't enough for companies to be competitive.

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• MetLife Investment Management has announced plans for an 8.5-acre, multiphase mixed-use development in Midtown Atlanta, according to a company press release.

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• The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development has solicited private companies and investors through a Notice of Intent (NOI) to join with the agency in its first public-private partnership (P3) for the $122 million replacement of the Belle Chasse Tunnel and Bridge in Plaquemines Parish, according to Equipment World.

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• The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 31, and despite its focus on union fees in the public sector, it may end up being "the most important labor law decision .

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• Almost 200,000 jobsites neglected to file their 2016 annual injury and illness log summaries by Dec. 31, breaking compliance with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) new electronic record-keeping rule, according to Bloomberg Environment.

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• The volume of construction waste generated worldwide every day, according to a report from Transparency Market Research, will nearly double to 2.2.

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• Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal announced that social media giant Facebook is building its ninth U.S. data center just outside of Atlanta in Newton County, Georgia, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

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• Architecture firm Populous and Los Angeles-based developer Oak View Group (OVG) have revealed plans for a $660 million renovation of Seattle's KeyArena, according to the Puget Sound Business Journal.

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• The Home Depot announced Thursday that its charitable arm, The Home Depot Foundation (HDF), will donate $50 million during the next 10 years to prepare 20,000 new workers for careers in the construction industry, according to a company press release.

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• Quicken Loans founder, billionaire Dan Gilbert, has reportedly reached a tentative deal with Detroit and Wayne County, Michigan, officials for a three-party land swap that would allow Gilbert to develop a downtown parcel into a $1 billion soccer stadium and mixed-use complex, according to The Detroit News.

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• The construction industry had its strongest month of job growth since March 2007 in February, adding 61,000 net new jobs, the U.S.

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• The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is preparing to issue the first global international health and safety management systems standard, according to Business Insurance.

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• The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Michigan Section, in its 2018 Report Card for Michigan's Infrastructure, gave the state a score of D+.

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• Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao said in testimony before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee this week that President Donald Trump has taken action to scuttle the $13 billion Hudson River tunnel project and asked House Speaker Paul Ryan to block funding for it, according to the Associated Press.

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• The Dodge Momentum Index edged up 0.5% to 146.9 in February from an upwardly revised January reading of 146.2, according to Dodge Data & Analytics.

Katie Coulson hadn't planned on working in the construction industry. When she went to the University of Wisconsin, her initial career goal centered on finding a path to get a good job that would help her pay for college.

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• The U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee heard testimony from Federal Bureau of Investigation and General Services Administration officials about a revised $3.3 billion plan for a new FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.

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• An Illinois Economic Policy Institute study on the effect of prevailing wage laws found that the pay regulations increased take-home pay for African American construction workers by 24%.

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• The Downtown Seattle Association has reported that there are 23% fewer active construction projects in the city's central district than there were six months ago, a decline from 74 projects to 57 that marks the sharpest downturn since the association began keeping such records in 2005, according to The Seattle Times.

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• The Downtown Seattle Association has reported that there are 23% fewer active construction projects in the city's central district than there were six months ago, a decline from 74 projects to 57 that marks the sharpest downturn since the association began keeping such records in 2005, according to The Seattle Times.

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• Prefab builder Katerra has announced plans to expand and open six manufacturing plants by March 2019, Building Design + Construction reported.

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• Bullitt Group and Cat have introduced the Cat S61 smartphone, which includes a FLIR thermal camera, laser-assisted distance meter and air quality analyzer, reported AnandTech.

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• Florida Developer 550 Seabreeze Development has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection amid lender claims that it has defaulted on a $36.9 million mortgage loan on the now-stalled Las Olas Ocean Resort in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, according to The Real Deal.

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• Florida Developer 550 Seabreeze Development has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection amid lender claims that it has defaulted on a $36.9 million mortgage loan on the now-stalled Las Olas Ocean Resort in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, according to The Real Deal.

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• The Q1 2018 United States Gypsum (USG) + U.S. Chamber of Commerce Commercial Construction Index (CCI) report reflects an ongoing confidence in the industry, with more than 67% of columbus oh excavation company expressing optimism that 2018 will see increased demand.

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• Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has proposed a program of mandatory retrofits to make steel buildings, daycare centers and private schools more resilient to earthquakes, according to the Los Angeles Times.

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• The joint venture of Tutor Perini and Parsons Transportation Group has been awarded the $1.41 billion Newark (N.J.) Liberty International Airport Terminal One project, according to Engineering News-Record.

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• The joint venture of Tutor Perini and Parsons Transportation Group has been awarded the $1.41 billion Newark (N.J.) Liberty International Airport Terminal One project, according to Engineering News-Record.

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• The Ventura County Transportation Commission has awarded WSP an engineering design and environmental consulting services contract worth up to $15.2 million as a precursor to a $750 million to $2 billion project that would see the addition of high-occupancy vehicle lanes on Highway 101 through the California cities of Thousand Oaks and Ventura, according to the Ventura County Star.

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• The Ventura County Transportation Commission has awarded WSP an engineering design and environmental consulting services contract worth up to $15.2 million as a precursor to a $750 million to $2 billion project that would see the addition of high-occupancy vehicle lanes on Highway 101 through the California cities of Thousand Oaks and Ventura, according to the Ventura County Star.

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• The Ventura County Transportation Commission has awarded WSP an engineering design and environmental consulting services contract worth up to $15.2 million as a precursor to a $750 million to $2 billion project that would see the addition of high-occupancy vehicle lanes on Highway 101 through the California cities of Thousand Oaks and Ventura, according to the Ventura County Star.

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• The Jerseyville (Illinois) Economic Development Council announced on Friday that construction of a $500 million logistics center, which would be served by a rail line, could begin this summer, according to The Telegraph.

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• The Hillsborough County Aviation Authority voted to move forward with the next $304 million piece of the $2 billion, three-phase overhaul underway at Tampa International Airport, according to the Tampa Bay Times.

Women still face an uphill battle when it comes to advancement in the construction industry. Women make up only 9% of the industry's workforce, and their lack of representation has contributed to the demographic's struggle to both recruit and retain female workers, and to advocate for change on women-specific workplace concerns.

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• President Donald Trump announced Thursday that the U.S. would begin imposing a 25% tariff on steel imports and a 10% tariff on aluminum imports beginning next week, according to Reuters.

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• Officials at Johns Hopkins' Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore have filed a certificate of need with the Maryland Medical Health Care Commission requesting authorization to embark on a $469 million renovation and expansion project, according to the Baltimore Business Journal.

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• The owner of an Iowa construction columbus oh aggregate supply company was killed this month when the excavation area in which he was working collapsed, according to WQAD.

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• According to Wells Fargo Equipment Finance's 2018 Construction Industry Outlook report, optimism for increased construction activity this year on the part of contractors, distributors, manufacturers and columbus oh MBE DBE company rental companies is at a 20-year high.

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• Officials at Johns Hopkins' Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore have filed a certificate of need with the Maryland Medical Health Care Commission requesting authorization to embark on a $469 million renovation and expansion project, according to the Baltimore Business Journal.

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• The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) announced that preliminary columbus oh dump truck company had begun on the 2.5-mile, $2.53 billion second phase of the Purple Line subway extension, according to Curbed Los Angeles.

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• The state House in Oregon narrowly passed legislation that would require general columbus oh excavation company to pay past due wages and benefits owed to their subcontractors' employees under certain circumstances, according to News Channel 21 KTVZ.

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• A former Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) construction project administrator has been ordered to pay a fine of $20,000 and serve a sentenced of 46 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, after pleading guilty to asking for and receiving bribes from MTA contractors, according to the U.S.

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• The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) announced that preliminary columbus oh dump truck company had begun on the 2.5-mile, $2.53 billion second phase of the Purple Line subway extension, according to Curbed Los Angeles.

Contractors used to have to swim through a sea of paperwork to perform any number of preconstruction tasks, including quantity takeoffs, collecting bids from subcontractors, checking vendor qualifications, communicating with the owner, and clarifying design issues with the architect and engineer.

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• Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh announced over Twitter the city has launched a draft of its first Inclusive Digital Transformation Strategic Plan.

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• A recent customer survey from small business funding site Kabbage revealed that fewer than 35% of small construction companies planned to make investments at some level this year in technologies that could help their businesses and further bring them into the digital age.

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• The Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program has issued a hazard alert about safe trenching operations after an "alarming" increase in trench-related deaths in Kentucky, according to Safety + Health.

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• As part of a state police and Manhattan District Attorney's Office investigation into potential pay-to-play schemes in the interior construction industry totaling $100 million, The New York Times reported that Bloomberg and Turner Construction offices in New York City, as well as those of other contractors, have been raided and executives who participated in bribery, bid-rigging and other fraud have been fired.

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• Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and O'Hare International Airport airline carriers are close to reaching an $8.5 billion expansion deal that would increase airport space by more than 3 million square feet, according to the Chicago Tribune.

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• As part of a state police and Manhattan District Attorney's Office investigation into potential pay-to-play schemes in the interior construction industry totaling $100 million, The New York Times reported that Bloomberg and Turner Construction offices in New York City, as well as those of other contractors, have been raided and executives who participated in bribery, bid-rigging and other fraud have been fired.

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• According to a recent report from Moody's Investors Services, delays on public-private partnership (P3) construction projects are not rare and do not always mean projects are destined for debt default.

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• The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has vacated its recent joint employment ruling, Hy-Brand Industrial Contractors, Ltd.

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• A Miami contractor is suing a Pennsylvania crane columbus oh aggregate supply company for $45,000 claiming that the tower crane it rented was delivered in subpar condition and failed when Hurricane Irma hit South Florida in September, according to the Miami Herald.

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• A Miami contractor is suing a Pennsylvania crane columbus oh aggregate supply company for $45,000 claiming that the tower crane it rented was delivered in subpar condition and failed when Hurricane Irma hit South Florida in September, according to the Miami Herald.

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• Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) officials said they will conduct a $10 million feasibility study for a second $12 billion to $15 billion transportation tunnel under San Francisco Bay, according to KTVU.

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• The Orange County (California) District Attorney's Office has charged a group of columbus oh excavation company that performed columbus oh dump truck company on the Pacific Amphitheater at the Orange County Fair and Event Center in Costa Mesa between 2013 and 2015 with underpaying workers and failure to pay state taxes, an amount totaling $200,000, according to the Los Angeles Times.

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• Washington, D.C. issued a permit to Elon Musk's Boring Company for preliminary columbus oh dump truck company on a small patch of land that could end up as a Hyperloop station, according to The Washington Post.

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• JPMorgan Chase has announced plans to build a new headquarters on the site of its current New York City office building, according to Reuters.

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• St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has announced it will build a $412 million research center in downtown Memphis, one of the largest projects in the city's history and part of the hospital's $1 billion expansion plans for its downtown Memphis campus, according to the Commercial Appeal.

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• The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will contribute an additional $44 million toward construction of a new $13 billion Hudson River tunnel, according to the New York Daily News.

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• Atlanta-based developer Novare Group and Batson Cook Development have started construction of a 25-story luxury tower along the "$5 Billion Mile" in Frisco, Texas, according to The Dallas Morning News.

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• New York City-based Greenwich Realty Capital has submitted site plans with the city of Denver for the development of an 81-story, $371 million residential and hotel high-rise in the downtown area, according to The Denver Post.

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• In a city-to-city analysis of the finalists for Amazon's new $5 billion North American headquarters (HQ2), public relations consultancy Hamilton Place Strategies (HPS) found that Washington, D.C.

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• Hyperloop Transportation Technologies' (HTT) signed deal, which includes agreements with the North Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency and the Illinois Department of Transportation, could result in the first public-private partnership for a hyperloop system in the U.S.

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• Rep. Bill Shuster (R-Pa.), chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, told The Hill last week that the infrastructure bill-writing process for the president's $1.5 trillion plan could be complete by summer.

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• Both small and large businesses are struggling to deal with the opioid epidemic, stakeholders told Congress during a Feb.

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• Four in five employees think artificial intelligence (AI) will make columbus oh dump truck company more empowering and engaging, but think employers' silence on the topic is creating fear and concern, a new survey by The Workforce Institute at Kronos Incorporated reveals.

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• The Gateway Downtown Consortium, comprised of prominent Shreveport business leaders and community members, has proposed a $1 billion downtown waterfront development that would built as a public-private partnership (P3), according to the Shreveport Times.

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• Cities, regional councils of government and government agencies can now compete in the 2018 Smart Infrastructure Challenge, announced Thursday at the Smart Regions Congress in Washington, DC.

The construction industry is full of conversations about how the number of potentially costly and time-wasting design flaws can be reduced when the owner, architect, engineer, general contractor and even key subcontractors get together before construction starts to hammer out the logistics and other project details.

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• New Jersey-based Somerset Development is underway with a $200 million renovation of Bell Labs, which will see the historic former AT&T research and development facility transformed into a walkable, mixed-use, urban "metroburb," according to Fast Company.

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• DFA has proposed a resilient, mixed-use project for New York City's Pier 40, a development that the architecture firm claims can survive an anticipated sea level rise of up to 75 inches by the year 2100, according to designboom.

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• President Donald Trump reportedly told a group of Republican and Democratic lawmakers in a meeting at the White House last week that he would support a 25-cent-per-gallon increase to the federal gas and diesel taxes to help pay for his $1.5 trillion infrastructure program, according to Bloomberg.