How often did John R. Hillman, founder and president of Chicago-based HC Bridge Co., LLC, think about giving up on getting the industry to accept his hybrid bridge beam of concrete and steel with fiber-reinforced polymer materials?
Along Tenth Avenue in midtown Manhattan, the landscape is chocked with building projects, a marked contrast to the national commercial construction slump.
The year 2009 marked the midpoint and high-water mark in a seven-year-long flood of work at the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, with $27.7 billion in construction on the military-programs side and $15.6 billion on the civil-works side.
Like a protective parent, Mike Betz winces a little when people call the D7E a “hybrid” tractor. The diesel-electric dozer may have hybrid-like qualities.
In Abu Dhabi, a United Arab Emirate as-sociated with opulence, there is a $22-billion megadevelopment called Masdar City under way, which, if built out, would be the world’s first carbon-neutral mini-city.
Textura founders Eichhorn and Allin (right) streamline how contractors get paid. Shortly after PWC sold its consulting arm to IBM in 2002, William Eichhorn, a former e-commerce consultant at PWC, came to Allin with an unusual idea
Ray Mangrum’s wealth of experience in the waste-management profession has culminated in a one-of-a-kind river cleanup in Wisconsin that is expected to save as much as $100 million over traditional methods.
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