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- June Construction Slips 3%
New construction starts in June dropped 3% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $385.7 billion, according to McGraw-Hill Construction, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies. - Deal Sends Tishman Construction Into AECOM’s Arms
Global design giant AECOM Technology Corp., Los Angeles, and leading New York City-based building construction manager Tishman Construction Corp. are linking up to share needed capabilities in a changing construction market. - Finally, BP Advances Effort To Stop Leak
The capping stack was tested at Cameron Elastomer Technology’s facility in Berwick, Lou., where it has been assembled over the past two months. The stack was installed July 12 and will potentially stop oil from gushing into the gulf. - U.S. Architecture Schools Announce Leadership Changes
As campuses prep for the fall semester, some top architecture schools are experiencing turnovers among their high-level staff. - Virginia’s I-495 Expansion Fast-Tracked Thanks to D-B, Infusion of Private Capital
Virginia’s 14-mile Interstate 495 expansion will take just four years, thanks to design-build and an infusion of private capital - Interview with Alain de Botton, Architecture of Happiness Author
“Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design,” writes pop philosopher Alain de Botton in his heartfelt case for good building, 2006’s The Architecture of Happiness. - Naval Station Great Lakes Completes $770-Million Construction Program
On July 14, the U.S. Navy celebrated the end of a 12-year construction program that built 22 new buildings for its recruit-training center at Naval Station Great Lakes just north of Chicago. - LBJ Freeway Financing Secured, Project to Start by Early 2011
Construction will start by spring 2011 on Dallas’ $2.7 billion LBJ Freeway (IH-635), one of the nation’s most congested highway systems. - Engineer Rejects N.Y. State's 'Sling Theory' in Rigger Trial
Attorneys on July 12 began presenting their case in defense of William Rapetti, the Long Island, N.Y., crane rigger on trial for manslaughter.