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When Ray Kowalik first interviewed with a recruiter at Kansas City, Mo.-based Burns & McDonnell after graduating from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1987 with a bachelor’s degree and a master’s in civil engineering, the concept of employee ownership didn’t bear all that much weight.

At just 12,000 sq ft, a glass structure is rising in suburban Broadview, outside Chicago, where future occupants will be repeatedly raising up glass curtain walls inside the building.

Reports from key industry events across the Southeast region.

This year’s class of Top Young Professionals in the Midwest affirms that the future of design and construction in the region belongs to the firms that are willing to adapt and innovate.<

Project news from Dodge Data & Analytics for the Southeast Region.

Updates about construction professionals in the Southeast region.

Dodge offers data on projected 2024 construction starts in the Nashville area.

Dodge offers data on projected 2024 construction starts in the Nashville area.

Widening a highway is more difficult than creating a greenfield one, according to Mike Patton, resident engineer for the North Carolina Dept. of Transportation’s (NCDOT) Division 14, which covers the state’s westernmost and mountainous counties.

As a young engineer at what is now GAI Consultants Inc., Gary DeJidas didn’t think his application to lead the company’s planned 1982 expansion into Florida had much chance of succeeding.