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Back in January, when Pam Radtke Russell, ENR’s deputy editor for national news, started reporting the cover story on this year’s Award of Excellence winner Cris Liban, she tried to keep up with his hectic cross-country schedule.

From the hundreds of thousands of page views on ENR.com, we know readers are on a quest to understand the rapidly changing situations they face during the COVID-19 emergency.

Whether it is an outlier event or something that occurs more frequently, the coronavirus pandemic has inflicted damage on the global economy—and construction—that can’t be judged or measured yet.

Key thoughts on government and business response to the pandemic and what it means for construction.

Why in this age of digitization we reap so much joy from photos whose subject is very solid and corporeal world of construction.

After the latest distressing round of California wildfires and blackouts, more needs to be done to improve, not just rebuild, the aged power grid now recognized as causing some of the fires.