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Technical experts say quakes’ death toll and destruction were made worse by systemic problems in the nation’s building industry.

Recession fears continue to loom as the first quarter comes to a close. Inflation remains an ongoing issue, while recent failures in the banking sector pose additional threats.

The 2023 Oscar awards featured a Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor who reinvented themselves and came back for a second act. The tunnel-boring machine Angeli is the LA performer that did much the same, but entirely underground.

The 20 projects recognized here are the result of a nearly yearlong effort by ENR editors and roughly 100 construction industry members who judged contest entries at various stages.

When crews with Kokosing Construction Co. began a $209-million design-build contract—the largest of its kind in West Virginia—in 2015, they first had to build roads in order to build the actual road called Corridor H.

The U.S. Commerce Dept. launched first funding opportunity for semiconductor chip producers seeking to build, expand or modernize plants using money from the Chips and Science Act. 

Nearly two weeks after two severe earthquakes have killed more than 46,000 in central Turkey and northern Syria, the full extent of damage to thousands of buildings and other structures is beginning to emerge.

One year after Ukraine invasion upended energy supply and costs, more natural gas projects are in motion in the US and globally, but concern grows over greenhouse gas impacts as industry seeks design, construction and operations solutions.

Construction technologists find new ways to save project data that incorporate cloud-based construction project management platforms from vendors such as Autodesk, Bentley, Oracle and Procore. Some are creating their own data lakes and warehouses, while vendors and contractors search all the data for business intelligence insight.

While some structures survived the first main shock and performed as designed, experts say having two major quakes in such close proximity would challenge even the most stringent seismic codes.