The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) has initiated bids for major transportation improvement projects all across the state, with the agency awarding $73.7 million in new work, including significant, multi-million-dollar ...

Michael Stout, former director of the Illinois Department of Transportation’s (IDOT) Division of Traffic Safety, used his position to obtain passes to NASCAR events at Chicagoland Speedway, misappropriated state property, ...

The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) sent a letter to conferees for the reauthorization of a highway bill saying "it is one of the most proactive steps Congress ...

Earlier today, U.S. Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.), chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and U.S. Rep. John Duncan, Jr. (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Highways and Transit Subcommittee, made ...

The Vulcan Materials/Martin Marietta Materials saga continues. According to a Bloomberg Business Week report, Martin Marietta Materials is appealing the Vulcan Materials ruling. Yesterday, according to the Bloomrberg report, Martin Marietta said ...

The Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) says that non-residential fixed investment in structures dropped 12 percent in the first quarter of 2012 following a 0.9 percent decrease in the fourth ...

Lafarge will move from Herndon to Chicago in the fall, according to Illinois state officials who enticed the firm with financial incentives, The Washington Post reports. The North American headquarters ...

Innovation should be the driving force behind creation of new strategies to help reduce the nearly 600 deaths and 40,000 injuries that occur annually in roadway construction zones. That’s the ...

WASHINGTON, DC - Winners of the Industrial Minerals Association – North America (IMA-NA) safety recognition awards were announced by  IMA-NA Chairman Kevin Porterfield and IMA-NA President Mark Ellis at the ...

All nine justices on the U.S. Supreme Court have refused to widen the scope of the federal Clean Water Act (CWA). In PPL Montana, LLC v. Montana, the Court, Feb. 22, ...