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California Is on Fire. Again. (Sun, 10 Nov 2019)
The golden hills of Chatsworth, Calif., feature ranch grasslands and telephone poles. Power lines have sparked many a fire from the dry heat of summer, turning grass into fuel. For the third straight year, California is on fire. Large fires are consuming thousands of square miles, frighteningly near the state’s major metropolitan areas: the San Francisco bay area in the north and Los Angeles/San Diego areas in the south. Much of the blame for supplying the sparks igniting the fires in t...
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Bentley Delivers Infrastructure on the Back of a Digital Twin (Thu, 07 Nov 2019)
Bentley produces infrastructure design and build software without equal. No wonder it is embraced by most of the departments of transportation in the U.S., the lion’s share of the ENR Top Design-Build Firms 100, and judging from the crowd at this year’s Year in Infrastructure(YII), any firm that has built anything of scale and substance. How a relatively small, family run software company can provide the software of choice for construction projects that collectively account for trill...
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Texas & Louisiana Construction News

Two Tower Cranes Brought Down in Controlled Demolition at Site of New Orleans Hotel Collapse (Fri, 18 Oct 2019)
Two unstable tower cranes at the site of the New Orleans Hard Rock Hotel collapse were brought down on Oct. 20 in a controlled demolition, but work to stabilize the structure is far from over.
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Texas & Louisiana People: Construction business updates for October 2019 (Tue, 15 Oct 2019)
Updates about construction professionals in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Texas.
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Today in Energy

EIA improves its propane and other hydrocarbon gas liquids data (Tue, 12 Nov 2019)
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently improved multiple data series for hydrocarbon gas liquids (HGL) in its Monthly Energy Review. The updated data series reflect changes in how EIA defines liquefied petroleum gases to better align with industry practice.
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The U.S. placed near-record volumes of natural gas in storage this injection season (Fri, 08 Nov 2019)
The amount of natural gas held in storage in 2019 went from a relatively low value of 1,155 billion cubic feet (Bcf) at the beginning of April to 3,724 Bcf at the end of October because of near-record injection activity during the natural gas injection, or refill, season (April 1–October 31). Inventories as of October 31 were 37 Bcf higher than the previous five-year end-of-October average, according to interpolated values in the U.S. Energy Information Administration's (EIA) Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report.
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Business

Southside Bank to open in new Kingwood H-E-B (Tue, 12 Nov 2019 16:15:00 UT)
Southside Bank will open inside the upcoming H-E-B grocery store in Kingwood. The location is planned to open in conjunction with the store's opening on Wednesday at 19529 Northpark Drive.
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Luxury real estate agents visit Houston for Christie's annual meeting (Tue, 12 Nov 2019 14:06:28 UT)
Real estate agents who sell some of the world's most expensive homes and condominiums are in Houston for an annual meeting of luxury agents affiliated with Christie's International Real Estate. But when Christie's officials were considering where to hold the event, Houston was not the obvious choice.
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