When engineers made plans to reinforce and upgrade the carrying capacity of the Empire State Building’s mast and tower, they had to protect pedestrians below.
Each year, ENR’s Year in Construction Photo Contest is judged by experts from the fields of construction safety, graphic design, photography and journalism.
Colorado-based industrial photographer Jackie Shumaker captured this image of a worker while she was documenting construction progress on Swinerton’s Country Club Towers jobsite in Denver this summer.