The ugly home building market is finally weakening its death grip on the struggling economy.

For cash-strapped state and local governments that have critical transportation infrastructure needs, but no money to pay for them, the coming year will be bittersweet.

Residential market shows signs of life -- and that may be a little good news for highway contractors.

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.

Getting in, getting out and staying out is the motto for renewing existing highway infrastructure. Cathodic protection is the only technology that can directly stop corrosion in reinforced concrete structures.

The National Association of Counties (NACo) has published the results of a fall survey looking at the continuing impact of the struggling economy on a sample of counties across the ...

States facing almost unprecedented income shortages are getting worried that they may be unable to meet matching requirements when looking for federal dollars.

The Obama administration is putting some contractors who work with the federal government on notice with two proposed changes in acquisition rules that address pass-through costs and award fees. In the ...

Adhesive Anchors in Concrete under Sustained Loading Conditions  www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/ 162132.aspx...

The United States huge, and growing, deficit numbers are setting the tone for the construction industry and highway funding is the message from an industry forum.

Earmarks, those lump sums of money our elected representatives put into legislation to fund projects in their districts, part of good old fashioned pork barrel spending, can be a massive ...

The Center for Public Integrity releases an investigative report about lobbyists in the transportation industry.