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Kiewit building 300,000-ton-per-year greenfield plant

The dust has settled from a methane explosion last month that brought down the roof of a sludge concentration building at the Calumet water reclamation plant on Chicago’s far south side, but there is still uncertainty as to what triggered the blast.

The 16-mile O'Hare Express would connect downtown Chicago and O'Hare airport.

ENR Midwest's judges sifted through a slate of 106 high-quality entries that made naming the winners of our 2018 Best Projects Awards a difficult task.

U.S. Army Corp. of Engineers' researchers, leading a team that recently completed the 3D printing of 9.5-ft-tall reinforced concrete walls for a 32-ft x 16-ft deployable barracks, are setting their sights on a future project--3D printing of concrete roof beams--even before they have put the precast concrete lid on the printed walls.

Mechanical, Inc. is our Midwest Specialty Contractor of the Year.

A Midwest contractor turns to a new technology to automatically gather and share asset data in an unchangeable database for handover

Technology guru Elon Musk beat  three other companies for the right to negotiate with Chicago.

A community P3 has been the driving force in delivering the biggest private investment ever in a national park, the new Gateway Arch Park and visitor's center.

Top contractors are winning their local markets and turning to technology to meet demand.