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How many employers will adopt a new way of measuring safety performance?

Does a new book meet its promise to describe how cities work and power our lives?

A review of a new book and its allegations related to the firm's safety activity on the project.

Author Elinor Moshe talks with ENR about how the book’s narrative insights from AEC “industry titans and young guns” reflects the shifting scope of the construction business.

Retired U.S. Army Major Gen. Gregg F. Martin, construction unit commander during the Iraq War, in Bipolar General: My Forever War with Mental Illness, reaches out to military, construction and business leaders and others to better understand the destructive nature of bipolar disorders, warning flags and how to get help.

Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner's "How Big Things Get Done" stems from Flyvbjerg's work at Oxford University studying megaprojects.

Jessie Singer, author of “There Are No Accidents” (Simon & Schuster, 336 pages), works for a nonprofit dedicated to making cities safer for pedestrians and cyclists, but her views of error and accidents go far beyond urban life and cars.

In Genesis 6:11-9:19, God tips off Noah with the famous forecast of 40 days and nights of rain, but ever since then, we’ve been pretty much on our own when it comes to dealing with earthquakes, hurricanes and floods.

Sometimes the most important ideas take a long time to sink in. Two books that have helped to reshape ideas about occupational safety, published by the same academic press in 2014 and 2012, are Sidney Dekker’s The Field Guide to Understanding ‘Human Error’ and Todd Conklin’s Pre-Accident Investigations.

In a world beset by troubles, supertall buildings, which measure from 984 ft to 1,968 ft, would not seem to rate high on a list of priority concerns.