A quick look at some of the large ongoing construction projects around the county. Projects are listed by estimated total cost.

(AP) -- New Mexico's Senate has unanimously approved a proposal to revamp the governing board of a financing agency hit by an audit scandal last year.

(AP) -- Repairs to a nearly 100-year-old pond in San Diego's Balboa Park are finished at a cost of $50,000, eight months after hundreds of people trashed it during a midnight water fight.

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The last week in February will mean more construction activity at municipalities, as some groups have developmnet updates.

A team of NewSchool of Architecture and Design students have won first place in the category of Virtual Design and Construction at the Associated Schools of Construction (regions 6 and 7) 2013 Student Competition.

The Sweetwater Union High School District and SunPower Corp. (Nasdaq: SPWR) celebrated the installation of 3.3 megawatts of high efficiency SunPower solar power systems at six district schools on Friday.

(AP) -- Federal investigators are examining contracts awarded by the troubled San Francisco Housing Authority.

Wermers Multi-Family Corp. has broken ground on Doria Apartment Homes Phase II in Irvine's Stonegate neighborhood.

Construction is complete at Paseo La Jolla, the new 24-unit luxury townhome community on nearly 28,000 square feet at the corner of Herschel and Pearl in La Jolla.

The construction backlog shrunk in the West during the fourth quarter of 2012, but still saw growth compared to the previous year, according to the latest Associated Builders and Contractors Construction Backlog Indicator report.

(AP) -- A huge homeless encampment has mushroomed in a grassy field near downtown San Jose.

Demand for design services in the West increased for the sixth straight month in December, according to the newest American Institute of Architects Architecture Billings Index released Wednesday.

(AP) -- The New York attorney general said the $60 million initiative to provide counseling and legal services to homeowners at risk of foreclosure reached 3,600 in the first three months including 547 in the Buffalo and Niagara Falls region.

After 53 years in San Francisco, the Pacific Coast Builders Conference will fly south in June to sunny San Diego.

(Bloomberg) – The San Diego County Water Authority sold $299.1 million in refunding debt, as the California agency builds the Western Hemisphere's largest water-desalination plant.

Pierce Education Properties L.P. (PEP), a San Diego-based student housing and real estate investment, management and development firm serving educational institutions and communities, announced that it has acquired North Campus Crossing (Phase I and Phase II), a 1,692-bed, off-campus student housing complex at Eastern Carolina University.

It’s a slow week for construction at municipalities and public education boards, with President’s Day on Monday.

A new judge presiding over the cases against more than a dozen defendants facing various charges of corruption in multiple South County school and college districts has pushed back the defendants’ arraignment dates once again.

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