Now 10 years old, Construction Safety Week has evolved. What at first was a national industry stand-down to emphasize safety compliance has grown into a coordinated day of training across the country and advocacy of a cause that reflects changing ideas about the role of workers to shape how construction tasks are done and to recognize jobsite hazards.
Engineering News in its early years was more of a civil engineering journal than its later incarnations (including Engineering News-Record), with numerous articles contributed by engineers.
At a 1,000-acre site in Ohio, Intel Corp. (No. 1) is building a pair of semiconductor fabrication plants, or fabs, that promise to be part of an influx of new domestic production of leading-edge chips.
Utiiity firm, ranked No. 12 on ENR's Top 425 Owners list, begins building in May its 2.6-GW giant, set to be the largest offshore wind project in the U.S. when finished.
Sound Transit, serving the Seattle metropolitan area, will debut the first 6.5-mile segment of its $3.67-billion East Link Extension April 27, launching light-rail service along an eight-station route between South Bellevue and the Redmond Technology Center, both east of the city.