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State is halfway through with its first new interstate in 29 years.

JF Ahern is a mechanical and fire protection contractor that's lasted 140 years in Fond Du Lac, Wis. The company was named ENR Midwest Specialty Contractor of they Year, in part, because it worked on projects in 10 of ENR Midwest’s 11 states last year.

2019 was another banner year for the Midwest's Top Specialty Contractors, but COVID-19 impacts loom.

The $14.9-million, 500,0000-sq-ft MetroSouth COVID-19 alternate care facility was designed and built by Perkins and Will and Clark Construction in just 22 days.

Updates about construction professionals in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio and Wisconsin

Dodge data on projected 2020 construction starts in Louisville

Dodge data on projected 2020 construction starts in St. Louis

Chicago has around 400,000 homes with lead service lines. Although the city has made EPA's safe drinking water standard, the homes tested mostly belong to employees and retirees from the water management department and the voluntary replacement program is not funded beyond 2021.

An Iowa landscaping contractor's former vice president inflated the value of its invoices to give the company a no-interest loan. It was caught when a geofoam supplier complained to the Iowa Department of Transportation that it hadn't been paid.

Construction started last month on the 284-ft-tall mass timber-and-concrete apartment building in Milwaukee—which, if completed as planned in mid-2022, would be the world's tallest hybrid timber tower.