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ENR’s editors used its opinion page to weigh the pros and cons of the Trump presidency for the construction industry and found that the cons heavily outweighed the pros.

Data from tech tools such as Procore, Smartvid.io and others are helping firms understand what's going on in state economies and work through the new restrictions. Some are even thriving.

The case for diversity in hiring and buying goods and services is simple. The need for industry change is not a matter of social responsibility, it's a matter of arithmetic.

Moving ENR’s Award of Excellence celebration to an online platform this year allowed us to reimagine what was possible in this format. 

In construction, we can’t solve a global pandemic, but we can protect our contracting companies by keeping overhead flexible in case business declines.

MEP Subcontractors are the unsung heroes of prefabrication and they can help designers and contractors embrace a leaner, better construction process if they'll listen to their prefab sherpas.

The U.S. regularly spends $500 billion each year on federal contracts, much of it going to small businesses, and it’s easy to see with such large sums of money why fraud is common. 

Contractors are relying even more heavily on prefabrication and modularization and communication technologies using A/R, V/R and cloud sharing.

Construction has a long, often unenviable history with race, and an image as a closed fraternity of white men.