Katherine Petrik – CEG Senior Editor - Wed May 06, 2026
Louisiana Breaks Ground On $2.3B I-10 Calcasieu River Bridge
Site work is ramping up in southwest Louisiana following the official groundbreaking April 29, 2026, of the I-10 Calcasieu River Bridge Replacement project, a $2.3 billion public private partnership aimed at modernizing one of the nation's most critical freight and energy corridors....
M.H. Eby - Mon April 27, 2026
M.H. Eby Announces New Truck Body Distributors in Pa., Utah, La.
M.H. Eby Inc. announced the addition of three new partners to its North American distributor network. These new partnerships expand Eby's truck body distribution and service coverage for aluminum truck body solutions and upfitting partners that strengthen service coverage in key regional markets....
AASHTO Journal - Wed April 08, 2026
Louisiana DOTD Begins $43M I-49 Preservation Project to Improve Region
The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (Louisiana DOTD) held a groundbreaking on March 27 for a $43 million preservation project that will improve a nearly 9-mi. stretch of I-49 from I-10 to the St....
Wed March 11, 2026
Amazon Invests $12B to Build Data Center Campuses in Northwest Louisiana
Amazon announced a $12 billion investment to construct data center campuses across Caddo and Bossier parishes. The multisite development marks one of the largest construction projects in the region and is designed to support long-term cloud computing needs....
Louisiana Department of Transportation & Development - Thu February 26, 2026
DOTD Invests $39M in Ruston's LA 544 Overpass Replacement
On Jan. 7, 2026, the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development Secretary Glenn Ledet, Jr., along with state and local officials, turned ceremonial dirt to mark the official kick-off of construction on the $39.2 million project to replace the LA 544 (Tech Drive) overpass over I-20 in the city of Ruston, Lincoln Parish....
The Reveille - Mon December 15, 2025
Work Begins on LSU's New $200M Dormitory, Designed to House 1,200 Students
Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge took a step toward its long-term housing expansion on Dec. 10, 2025, with the official groundbreaking ceremony of a massive new South Quad residential project....
Louisiana Economic Development & CEG - Thu November 13, 2025
Progress Rolls Along on Building Meta's Massive $10B AI Data Center in Rural Northeast La.
Site work is progressing in a rural corner of northeast Louisiana, Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, to build one of the world's largest artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, a massive $10 billion complex roughly the size of 70 football fields....
American Press & Louisiana DOTD - Fri October 31, 2025
New I-10/Calcasieu River Bridge Project in Lake Charles, La. to Start Work in March
The Health and Safety Council (HASC) Louisiana and the West Calcasieu Chamber of Commerce hosted the Louisiana Bridge Builders in an information-sharing session Oct. 28, 2025, at the HASC Louisiana location in Sulphur....
NOLA.com & CEG - Fri October 17, 2025
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Builds La.'s Mississippi River Saltwater Barrier in 12 Days
In an update to a story CEG posted earlier in October, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has completed an underwater sill built to prevent salt water from moving up the Mississippi River and threatening New Orleans' water supply....
USACE New Orleans District - Thu October 02, 2025
USACE Building an Underwater Sill in La. to Limit Saltwater Intrusion in Mississippi River
The New Orleans District office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has started constructing an underwater sill across the bed of the Mississippi River channel to arrest, or stabilize, further upriver progression of saltwater from the Gulf of America....
