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A project with the name “5th and Union” blends in with the 89 other shoring and drilling jobs on John Matyasovszky’s chronological list of work since 2005—when the Malcolm Drilling Co. senior superintendent began as a laborer.

Sound Transit opened its first light rail operation in the Seattle area in 2009.

Raised in Venezuela, U.S. citizen Andres Lepage considers his adopted homeland the “best country in the world.”

Last month, Megan Kreiger spent more than a week at Camp Pendleton in Southern California, 3D printing a 32-ft-long reinforced concrete footbridge.

While attending the Juilliard School’s pre-college music division, Frances Halsband had an epiphany.

Hiring good high-school engineering teachers is harder than ever these days, but David Mangus is an outlier.

In 2015, Stephen Muck was sitting in a Carnegie Mellon University seminar on robotics, and he could not stop thinking about how the technology might benefit the construction industry, which suffers from a labor shortage, especially for backbreaking work like tying rebar. 

Containing debris and providing a safe worksite were the key goals of the Despe Top-Down demolition system, a self- contained, six-story metal cocoon that can hydraulically lower itself around a tower as the structure is demolished floor by floor.

All ended well this month, with the opening of San Francisco’s tallest landmark.