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Six years after design began and one year after it was completed, Egypt’s Ministry of Culture is almost ready to start construction of the $550-million main building of the Grand Egyptian Museum, near Cairo.

Kenya, east Africa’s largest economy, has begun the $960-million process of constructing and upgrading two key roads in the capital of Nairobi through public/private partnerships as part of the multinational Northern Corridor Transport Improvement Project (NCTIP).

Current high river levels across the Mississippi watershed have levee officials watching flood defenses closely for signs of distress.

A multidisciplinary team of U.S. earthquake researchers and design engineers, organized by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), is leaving Feb. 28 to spend six days in Haiti.

Building team finished Minneapolis ballpark more than three months before Opening Day, despite a hemmed-in site that prompted unwieldy “inside-out” construction.

With an eye on badly needed tax revenue, the Obama administration ramps up for an enforcement drive that could push many construction contractors to pay big penalties

A 17-mile pipeline from a Wisconsin landfill will power a Milwaukee wastewater treatment plant and convert treated waste to commercial-grade fertilizer.

Utilities say 85% goal is neither cost-effective nor achievable with current technology.

Attorneys for JM Eagle, the maker of PVC pipe and the target of a whistleblower lawsuit, fire back at the company’s accuser.