Cummins Inc. has secured $75 million in Department of Energy funding to convert more than 350,000 square feet of Columbus, Ind. engine plant space for zero-emissions components and electric powertrain systems. The Inflation Reduction Act-rooted grant is the largest to date from Washington, D.C. awarded solely to the company. Cummins will match it for a total $150 million investment to…
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Water and Wastewater design-build primer promotes performance-based specs
The updated Design-Build Institute of America Water and Wastewater Best Practices document expands on the group’s Universal Best Practices and offers tailored support to construction professionals to enhance project efficiency and success. By addressing the sector’s unique challenges, authors note, the targeted Best Practices aim to ensure high-quality design-build projects that prioritize public health and safety. Among document highlights and…
Read MoreBatching Evolution and the Future
A look at how game-changing technologies have been transforming ready mixed concrete and batching. Cementitious materials have been around for a very long time, with the ancient Romans often cited as the first accomplished engineers to exploit them via volcanic pozzolanas. Throughout the 1700s and 1800s, significant development took place in England and France. Ultimately, ordinary portland cement—named after the…
Read MoreSome of the Experts Keep Getting it Wrong
Some of the brightest minds in the economic research area are on Wall Street, working for either major investment banks or business news services with a global following. As recently as a couple of weeks ago, they were issuing research that warned of a slowdown coming in the economy: one began their note by saying that after having boomed its…
Read MoreJustices draw regulator red line
The Supreme Court’s Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision should relieve concrete, construction and trucking interests of some uncertainties arising from federal agency rules or shield them when challenging such measures in federal courts. Loper plaintiffs questioned a Department of Commerce rule that hinged on authority indicated in Chevron U.S.A Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Counsel. That 1984 high court…
Read MoreInvestors position Fortera to perpetuate CalPortland plant model
Sources: Fortera, San Jose, Calif.; CP staff The developer of the ReCarb process, where carbon dioxide from cement or other industrial plant emissions is mineralized and converted to concrete-grade ReAct binder agents, has secured $85 million in Series C funding to pursue additional plant installations after this year’s charter facility deployment at the CalPortland Co. Redding, Calif. mill. Fortera reports…
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