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New administration set to rejoin Paris climate pact, a heavy lift for the energy sector, but industry cites need and optimism for a clean infrastructure funding program.

The next few months, most agree, will be crucial to the future of the construction economy.

The emergency stabilization of the 36-year-old West Seattle Bridge reached a new milestone after external post-tensioning and the release of a damaged Pier 18 bearing was completed Nov. 10, allowing crews to move toward wrapping girders in carbon fiber.

A free digital design tool that can help reduce the carbon footprint of a site is putting climate-friendly landscape architecture on a better path.

Single-family housing and warehouse construction have endured through the economic downturn amid the COVID-19 crisis, but recovery in other sectors will take time, forecasters say.

ENR’s 20-city average cost indexes, wages and materials prices. Historical data and details for ENR’s 20 cities can be found at ENR.com/economics

I hear from people who argue that I’m being too negative about the future, that real construction market recovery is just around the corner.

The push to mine cryptocurrency is driving a market for power plant conversions and other construction, but dependent on volatile up and down prices.

Getting machine learning and artificial intelligence to work for construction is often a matter of finding where it would be most useful.