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West Editor, Engineering News-Record
C.J. Schexnayder has written for Engineering News-Record since 2004, covering the projects, the people, the money flows, and the workforce dynamics that shape what gets built. He has served as West Editor since 2022.
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The Panama Canal Authority opens the first formal procurement on its $1.6-billion Río Indio reservoir, seeking a program management, engineering and construction consultant for the water-supply project at the center of the canal's long-term drought planning.
Read the full article →Incoming ACP administrator Ilya Espino de Marotta inherits an $8.5-billion-plus capital plan: a new LPG pipeline, two container terminals, the $1.6-billion Río Indio reservoir and an expanded interoceanic land corridor.
With its next multibillion-dollar capital program, the Panama Canal Authority is getting into the port business itself. A close read of the procurement documents shows the ACP building leeway to keep political pressure over Chinese influence at arm's length.
A sample from the full archive across construction, sports history, Alabama, Latin America, and civil rights.
The landmark school-desegregation case that reshaped Alabama public education, and what it cost the families who brought it to court.
Alejandro Toledo got 20 years for taking $35M in bribes to approve construction of the Interoceanic Highway, a road I had been photographing on the ground in 2008.
After two decades of canal coverage, a new chapter: a six-year, $1.6B Rio Indio reservoir project to keep the canal flowing in an era of climate-driven dry years.