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Minnesota welder Amber M. Czech had barely launched what seemed a promising career in the skilled trades before a co-worker cut her life short last year at age 20.

The explosives were stolen from a construction site where land is being cleared for a townhouse complex.

David Rodriguez, 45, who was employed by Midwest Drywall, died Mar. 30 after falling about 60 ft from scaffolding on the downtown project, with investigations of the accident underway.  

The complete list of Top Design Firms will be published in the May 11 print edition of ENR Midwest. 

The contractor claims the roadway authority's delays added hundreds of days to the schedule of a major interstate project.

Jerry Lewis was a champion for boosting participation of minority-owned firms on Chicago construction projects. 

Power Construction-Ujamaa is named general contractor, CannonDesign is architect and Magnusson Klemencic Associates and SR+A are structural engineers for five-story, 183,000-sq-ft facility.

A federal judge orders funding restored for CTA projects after a DOT-ordered freeze, allowing projects to continue and averting imminent deadline for contractor demobilization.

A 25-year-old employee of Kokosing Construction was killed in a hit-and-run crash last month in Columbus.

When will contractors Bechtel and Kiewit start work on the data center-power generation complex, and what other US-energy work will come from the America-Japan trade megadeal?