America's public transit fiscal crisis, tokenizing infrastructure, and the promises of virtual power plants

Transit agencies across America are struggling to regain ridership post-COVID. The country's eight largest agencies (NYC's MTA, BART, LA Metro, MBTA in Boston, the DC area's WMATA, SEPTA in Philly, New Jersey Transit, and the Chicago Transit Authority) are also collectively facing a $6.6B cumulative budget shortfall through 2026.

Commuting culture wars, legal issues on mega-transit projects, and Africa's booming data center sector

Connecting Sicily to southern Italy | Domestic P3 legislation booming | Understanding America's mass transit woes

A bridge connecting mainland southern Italy to Sicily has been a long-elusive goal for Italian engineers - and not just due to the Bel Paese's febrile politics. In 2005, the Italian government awarded a turnkey contract to a WeBuild-led joint venture (at the time known as Impregilo S.p.A.

Venice's flood control mega-project | Transit tech making moves | Vancouver's infrastructure challenges

According to Lord Byron, "Venice sinks, like a seaweed, into whence she rose." And La Serenissima is indeed literally sinking at a rate of two millimeters annually (since 1950-1970 when groundwater pumping for a nearby port caused the city to sink by 5 inches). In my opinion, it's the world's

Contractor claims in design-build won't quit | 3D printing potential for heavy civil | Cost spirals on MTA mega-projects

With the professional liability insurance market for heavy civil mega-projects in the US at "near crisis" the risks in design-build mega-project delivery are once again front and center in Engineering News-Record. Historically, design-build projects have been procured lump-sum based on an incomplete set of design drawings - usually no more