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The agreement will transform a current 25 percent tariff into a so-called tariff-rate quota, exempting up to 1.25 million metric tons of Japanese steel. By Ana Swanson Feb. 7, 2022 WASHINGTON — The Biden administration reached a deal to partly lift tariffs that the Trump administration had imposed on Japanese steel, agreeing to scale back levies…

https://www.enr.com/articles/53439-us-steel-nucor-build-major-mills-amid-steelmakers-modernization?oly_enc_id=7954G6929523I3L Autumn Cafiero Giusti and James Leggate United States Steel Corp. and Nucor Corp. each announced plans this week to build multibillion-dollar steel mills as the steel sector moves to modernize and electrify amid rising demand. Both mills will operate electric arc furnaces (EAF), which are fed by electricity instead of coal, to produce steel. Philip Bell,…

https://www.enr.com/articles/53373-palace-theatre-begins-30-ft-climb-into-tsx-broadway Eydie Cubarrubia Four years after TSX Broadway’s main developer acquired the entertainment, retail and hotel project, the anticipated raising of the Palace Theatre 30 ft from the ground into the new building finally happened Jan. 7. On the first snowy day of the year, workers and executives for the various engineering firms on the project…

https://www.enr.com/articles/53438-us-dot-releases-2022-share-of-new-iija-265b-bridge-program Tom Ichniowski As the Biden administration continues rolling out funding provided in the $1-trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), the U.S. Dept. of Transportation released the first year’s installment of a new $26.5-billion program to replace and rebuild aging bridges around the country. The DOT action, announced on Jan. 14, allocates $5.3 billion in fiscal…

November 18, 2021 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CHICAGO – Recent media reports have bemoaned extended delivery schedules for raw steel. But is this accurate–and is it impacting steel bridge projects? “Steel projects are still being delivered on schedule,” according to Charles J. Carter, SE, PE, PhD, executive director of the National Steel Bridge Alliance (NSBA).  Carter added…

December 2, 2021Nadine M. Post https://www.enr.com/articles/53126-tornado-resistant-building-design-premieres-in-asce-7-22 KEYWORDS ASCE 7 / ASCE 7-22 / Joplin tornado / tornadoesOrder ReprintsNo Comments The National Institute of Standards and Technology started working toward its goal of a wind-load standard for tornado-resistant design after a tornado devastated Joplin, Mo., on May 22, 2011. A decade later, on Dec. 1, NIST reached its goal when the American Society…

December 1, 2021Mary B. Powers https://www.enr.com/articles/53123-us-energy-dept-awards-latest-nuclear-complex-megacontract KEYWORDS DOE / DOE Nuclear Comples / Energy Dept. construction / Energy Dept. contrat / Oak Ridge site / Pantex PlantOrder ReprintsNo Comments A joint venture led by Fluor Federal Services and including Amentum will succeed a Bechtel National-headed consortium as manager and operator of two major US Energy Dept. nuclear weapons assembly and storage facilities in Tennessee and Texas…

Houston Ship Channel span redesign replaces concrete with steel https://www.enr.com/articles/53124-houston-bridges-revised-design-adds-300m-to-price December 1, 2021James Leggate KEYWORDS COWI North America / Harris County Toll Road Authority / Houston Ship Channel Bridge / Sam Houston TollwayOrder ReprintsNo Comments Officials in Texas have settled on plans to replace a flawed design for the new Houston Ship Channel bridge project over safety concerns, with an added build…

November 3, 2021Johanna Knapschaefer, Jim Parsons, Mark Shaw, and Debra K. Rubin https://www.enr.com/articles/52886-election-2021-recap-1b-ne-power-project-underway-is-rejected-texas-va-pass-big-funding-measures Among other developments in the U.S. non-presidential election on Nov. 2, a 60% majority of Maine voters rejected Central Maine Power’s $1-billion underway hydropower corridor project in a statewide ballot referendum, but utility owner Avangrid filed suit the next day in state court, claiming the…

OCTOBER 19 2021 https://www.aisc.org/modernsteel/news/2021/october/aisc-seeks-new-ideas-for-rigid-connections/ Structural steel is already the gold standard for rapid erection. But what if we could make it even faster? AISC is offering $5,000 for up to three great ideas to revolutionize steel floor beam connections. Your back-of-the-napkin, so-crazy-it-just-might-work concept could become the next revolutionary, non-proprietary connection system! The key words are FAST and…