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Justice Department joins whistleblower lawsuit against AECOM

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The lawsuit, originally filed in 2016 but unsealed this week, claims that the contractor and other defendants knowingly inflated repair estimates for post-Hurricane Katrina FEMA work.

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Road construction fatalities climbed through 2016

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As construction picked up after the Great Recession, so did worker deaths, according to the most recent statistics.

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Top Construction Videos of 2016

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Equipment World reported on the top 10 construction videos of 2016 last week, including this time lapse clip that shows a 230 foot long prefabricated tunnel inserted below a highway over a weekend in Rijkswaterstaat, Netherlands.

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Report: Elevator-related construction deaths on the rise

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The number of annual incidents doubled from 2003 to 2016, according to CPWR, which claims that most are preventable.

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Cedar Rapids, Iowa, region sees $1.6B of construction since 2016

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Linn County has seen 125 projects valued at $1 million or more, offering testament to the trend of big development booms happening in small pockets outside the country's major metros.

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3 suffer fall injuries on $2.3B I-4 Ultimate project

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In addition, since 2016, four workers have died working on the 21-mile expansion of Interstate 4 through Orlando, Florida, including one on Feb.

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Funding approved for $4B Atlanta transportation program

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Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority officials pared down their list of projects from more than $11 billion to match expected 2016 tax revenue.

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