Road and Bridges - Tue February 23, 2021
WSP USA Will Undertake Dallas I-30 Highway Project
The Texas DOT (TxDOT) has selected WSP USA to provide road design services for the I-30 Dallas Canyon Interchange project and the planning of highway improvements in the Odessa District's Permian Basin....
Case - Tue February 23, 2021
Case, Nueces Power Equipment Support Hurricane Recovery
Case Construction Equipment and Texas-based dealer Nueces Power Equipment provided equipment and support for a two-week Team Rubicon operation that continued each organization's support of Hurricane Harvey response and recovery — still ongoing more than three years after the hurricane hit the region....
Roads and Bridges - Tue February 23, 2021
Record $24B Worth of Construction Keeps Contractors Busy
In its 2021 progress report, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) outlines the continued momentum the agency has maintained despite a global pandemic and the historic challenges associated with such an unprecedented time....
News-Journal - Tue February 23, 2021
Samsung Considers $10B Texas Chipmaking Plant
Samsung Electronics Co. is considering spending more than $10 billion to build its most advanced logic chipmaking plant in the United States in Austin. The world's largest memory chip and smartphone maker is in discussions to locate a facility in Austin capable of fabricating chips as advanced as three nanometers in the future, according to sources....
BASF - Tue February 23, 2021
BASF Advances Its Renewable Energy Commitment in Texas
BASF is collaborating with EDF Energy North America to improve the energy balance and reduce carbon dioxide emissions of two of its production sites in Texas. The companies have signed a 35 MW Wind Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) that will bring 25 MW wind power to BASF's Verbund site in Freeport and 10 MW wind power to the Pasadena site....
Ritchie Bros. - Tue February 23, 2021
Ritchie Bros. Sets Record Amount of Bidders at Auction
Ritchie Bros.' 100-percent online auctions continue to drive strong results for consignors in 2021. In February, the company sold more than 4,600 items located at its Houston auction site to online buyers around the world for more than $47 million....
Robby Chakler – CEG SENIOR EDITOR - Tue February 23, 2021
Unprecedented Snowstorm Temporarily Shuts Down Lone Star State
The unprecedented snowstorm that saw dangerous amounts of snow and ice blanket the Texas area brought everything to a screeching halt. That included portions of the more than $24 billion worth of construction projects in the Lone Star State, which is a record-breaking dollar amount for current projects across the state at one time, according to the Texas Department of Transportation....
Skanska - Mon February 22, 2021
Skanska Tops Out Bowden Campus at St. Philip's College
Construction firm Skanska announced that it has reached a significant milestone on St. Philip's campus with the steel topping out of the Bowden Campus Center. The Bowden Campus Center will replace the original building from the 1940s....
PR Newswire - Wed February 10, 2021
Regulators Approve 135-Mi. Pipeline in Permian Basin
United States regulators have given the go-ahead for work to begin on almost all of the route of the 135-mi. Double E Pipeline that would link growing natural gas production areas in the Permian's Delaware Basin to delivery points near the Waha Hub in Texas....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Wed February 10, 2021
Joint Venture Takes on Texas Harbor Bridge Project
Crews from the joint venture of Flatiron/Dragados LLC (FDLLC) are working hard to complete the Texas Department of Transportation's (TxDOT) design-build, $802.9 million U.S. 181 Harbor Bridge Project (HBP) in Corpus Christi....
