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The National Transportation Safety Board last came down hard on engineering and construction in 2007. Did group-think obscure last year's unfolding disaster in Florida?

U.S. safety board's info releases so far on 2018 fatal collapse show mostly that spin machines have been running at full speed.

Tom Sawyer, ENR deputy editor, retires this week—leaving a lasting legacy for our enterprise. 

Faced with new climate-related threats and changes every day, it’s time to present a new, environmental version of Pascal’s wager.

The challenge of shooting this week’s cover about the new class of Top 20 Under 40 winners was conveying the drive, tenacity and leadership skills of these industry professionals in a group photo.

On the surface, it seemed like an outrageous defensive move following a painful tragedy. Louis Berger Group has refused requests from the Dept. of Labor to hand over emails with FIGG Bridge Engineers about its peer review of the ill-fated Florida International University pedestrian bridge.

How many people not in a history class still talk about the landmark Supreme Court case won by a Brooklyn kosher chicken company, A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp., in 1935?

After new Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) restated the project's priorities, transportation realists looking for good news let loose with an affirming “Amen.” 

The cost of the design for a new Kansas City International Airport has nearly doubled since a developer was picked in September 2017 in a very open, if chaotic, process. Now, Chicago is going with a completely closed process to pick the designer of a new terminal at O'Hare International in a process that's just as bad.