Transportation continues to fuel Chicago Market, HNTB's Mark Becherer says.

Santa Ana, Calif.-based Salas O'Brien, a national facilities design and planning firm, has merged with Columbus, Ohio-based Varo Engineers, creating a combined firm with 16 offices and 460 employee-owners.

The Midwest Specialty Contractor of the Year provides everything from wind and solar support to oil and gas pipelines and is helping the recovery from Hurricane Irma

As manufacturing, utility and energy production work continues to boom, the largest specialty contractors are reinvesting in themselves

Paul Villotti has joined Henderson Engineers as its director of life safety. With 35 years of experience in fire protection and life safety, Villotti is widely recognized as a leading expert in the field.

Our Best Project winners include a skyscraper built on top of an active rail line near the Chicago River, several innovative office buildings, the meticulous restoration of a state capitol building, multiple rail projects that brought service to underserved downtowns in large cities, one of the largest LEED-platinum corporate offices in the U.S., retrofits to aging coal-fired electrical plants that brought them into modern environmental compliance and some healthcare projects that put patients first.

ENR Midwest’s Top Contractor is a driving force in its home states and the region. Employee ownership and its first non-Dunn family CEO have only accelerated its growth, philanthropy and transformation into a regional power.

HDR has promoted Bernie Arseneau to director of its highways and roads unit in Minneapolis.

In addition to featuring the top-ranked general contractors of the year based on 2016 revenue, the July issue of ENR Midwest will also profile Kansas City's JE Dunn Construction as the 2017 ENR Midwest Contractor of the Year.