Articles Tagged with ''Chicago''

Construction Starts Expected to Decline Slightly From Last Year’s Peak Levels

Among the theories floated for this year’s lagging response by specialty contractors to ENR’s annual regional surveys is that those contractors have just been too busy working.

Contractors working in the Midwest, and especially in the Chicago area, have heard much about recovery. But is such chatter just idle?

The bar for Mortenson Construction can never be set too high nor set by others working in the industry, as far as Dan Johnson, company president, is concerned.

Women craft workers convened en masse in Chicago earlier this month to boost their connections and industry visibility and find ways to gain a larger share of industry apprenticeships and funding.

Every year, ENR Midwest is honored to rank the region’s largest projects that started construction during the previous calendar year.