Waiting for your accounting system to see if you're over budget — which might provide feedback in a week or two — just won’t cut it. Modern software can make ...

Against the backdrop of stalled federal surface transportation reauthorization and threats from reduced state and local funding, secondary roads are at an intersection.

Money from ARRA will run out or largely be exhausted by the end of this year. States are facing a worrying few months because without help from Washington the end ...

Research continues to produce new options for owners and designers to save conrete bridges.

Constructing a bridge via Accelerated Bridge Construction (ABC) that uses lightweight fill material can involve what appears to be assembling giant building blocks.

With workability,environmental benefits and solid performance reports, Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement -- RAP -- is becoming a bigger part of the mix.

Contractors and agencies show no signs of surrendering to economic pressures that in turn show little sign of easing their assault.

Green building is in, and that includes roads and streetscapes.

The construction industry's economic downturn has prompted many contractors to run equipment for more hours than normal and to keep equipment longer.

Thin lift hot-mix asphalt overlays are securing their place in the ‘pavement preservation toolbox’ touted by the Federal Highway Administration, the Foundation for Pavement Preservation, and other groups.

Treading water. It was a metaphor raised several times during a gloomy press conference to paint a picture of American transportation contracting companies trying to survive.

Trying to identify major trends and developments that could affect the way highway and bridge construction is done in the next year is something of a challenge at best. But ...