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Salt Lake City Lands WIFIA Loan for New Wastewater Facility

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P3s Proceed to Build or Rebuild Germany's Autobahn

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ENR Global Best Projects Award Winners 2020

Read more about which 30 projects from 21 countries were selected for recognition—based on their innovation, challenges overcome and worldwide collaboration—from a record number of entries. …

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Big Upgrade Changed More Than Infrastructure in Panama's Second Largest City

Corinne Grinapol

Debra K. Rubin

ENR Global Best Projects 2020: Colón, Panama urban renewal is Project of the Year and Best Renovation/Restoration …

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Hurricane Sally Knocks Out Pensacola Bay Bridge

Mary B. Powers

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Scott Blair

An evaluation of the damage may occur as early as Thursday, Sept. 17. …

Safety Health

Air Hazards Pause Construction Jobs in Western U.S. Wildfire Zone

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Construction work brought to a halt as air quality plummets; damage to infrastructure and property could top $150 billion …

Risk

Construction’s Human Resources Specialists Become Key Agents of Change

Jim Parsons

The COVID-19 pandemic has altered many industry human resources practices, some permanently. …

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Latest Updates On The Coronavirus Pandemic

ENR Editors

ENR tracks new industry impacts as COVID-19 forces project closures and interrupts global business. …

Transportation

Will One-Year Highway Bill Hitch a Ride on Stopgap Spending Measure?

Tom Ichniowski

House expected to take up stopgap spending bill soon, CR negotiators also considering authorization extensions. …

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Ford Begins Construction on $700-Million Rouge Center Expansion to Add Electric F-150 Production Line

Jeff Yoders

Ford Motor Co. and contractor Devin Industrial Group have already begun construction on a $700-million, 500,000-sq-ft gas-electric hybrid Ford F-150 manufacturing plant at the company's 100-year-old Rouge Center in Dearborn, Mich. The first trucks are expected to come off the line by late 2021.

Awards

Best Project, Water/Wastewater: Al Mahsama Water Reclamation Plant

Pam Radtke Russell

The Egyptian government has long planned to settle more people and develop farmland in the sparsely populated and arid Sinai Peninsula.

Blogs

Giroux Glass is ENR California's Specialty Contractor of the Year

By Erica Berardi

ENR editors voted glazing contractor Giroux Glass as the region's 2020 Specialty Contractor of the Year.

ENR Northwest Announces 2020 Regional Best Projects Winners

By Erica Berardi

ENR MidAtlantic Announces the 2020 Excellence in Safety Award Winners

By Justin Rice

Awards

Best Project, Rail: Sydney Metro Northwest

Aileen Cho

A team from throughout Australia, Europe, Asia and South Africa collaborated to deliver unprecedented levels of mobility and transit-oriented development for Sydney via the new 36-km Sydney Metro Northwest.

Awards

Award of Merit, Water/Wastewater: El Alamein Desalinization Plant

To bring Egypt’s largest desalinization plant from concept to commissioning in just 30 months, the project team was challenged to coordinate and synchronize shipments of construction materials and advanced water-treatment equipment from a worldwide network of suppliers.

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Award of Merit, Water/Wastewater: Sindh Water Sector Improvement Project

Constructed more than a century ago, the 140,000-km irrigation system that serves thousands of farms in this rainfall-scarce province was plagued by leaks, poor flow regulation and sediment build-up.

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Award of Merit, Rail: Linea 2 Metro Panama

Metro Line 2 provides much-needed rapid transit access to the half-million residents of Panama City’s east side.

ENR

Sept 21, 2020

A panel of industry judges reviewed a record number of entries to select 30 winning projects located in 21 countries on six continents. Colón, Panama’s urban renewal, providing modernized, safe and livable infrastructure for the country’s second-largest city, was chosen as ENR’s Global Project of the Year.

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