Engineering News-Record

The city of Athens, Ohio, accidentally sent nearly $722,000 to what its officials believed was its contractor, Pepper Construction Group, for a firehouse project. It turned out to be a sophisticated cyber intrusion. Athens has filed a civil suit to attempt to recoup its money. https://brnw.ch/21wPFB0

It was down to the wire in Congress, but the District of Columbia will be able to redevelop the site of RFK Stadium, possibly as a new home for the Washington Commanders.

Clean energy developer Enel Group will appeal new federal court order to dismantle, by Dec. 1, 2025. a 84-turbine operating onshore wind energy site on Osage nation land—in latest update of a years-long multi-court legal battle with tribe over claimed permit lapses in building the 150-MW project. Read what the takedown could cost the developer! #onshorewind #Osagenationwind #Enelgroup #Oklahomaprojectdispute

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Six New England states are first in the U.S. to collectively and proactively ask grid operator ISO New England to seek bids to expand two grid interfaces in southern Maine and build new infrastructure, such as a substation, in Pittsfield, Maine to connect up to 1,200 MW of onshore wind production. #ISO-NewEngland #FERC #cleanenergytransmission 3cleanenergyprojects

Big news in the UK! Contractor Balfour Beatty is part of innovators Technip Energies, GE Vernova, and Shell Catalysts & Technologies given green light by British goverenment to build the 742-MW Net Zero Teesside Power project in northeast England—set to be one of the world’s first commercial-scale gas-fired power plants with carbon capture and storage. Will team overcome pending legal bump? Read this story! #Teesidepowerplant #netzeropower #carboncapture #BalfourBeatty

Pacific Gas and Electric Company receives $15B "mega-loan" from U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for hydroelectric and clean energy transmission infrastructure. https://brnw.ch/21wPCOV

Under a timeline proposed by the team, demolition at the site would start in 2026, followed by the start of construction in 2028.

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Brazil’s Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira Bridge partially collapsed, killing at least one person and leaving 14 others missing. Officials say the center span of the 533-m-long reinforced concrete bridge dropped at about 2:40 p.m. Dec. 22. Read more about the incident and the hazard complicating the search for the missing: https://brnw.ch/21wPBVn #construction #engineering #bridge