Articles by Jeff Yoders

As the Army Corps of Engineers planned and built alternate care facilities in Chicago's McCormick Place and Detroit's TCF Center, its public health strategy shifted to using convention centers for COVID-19 patients without severe symptoms rather than just for non-COVID-19 patients to take the strain off hospitals.

As cases increase in Illinois, the state has fast-tracked a 200-bed veterans home to be used as a hospital. McCormick Place convention center also is undergoing a $71-million rehab to become an acute-care treatment facility.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will allow COVID-19 halted projects extra time to finish without being responsible for liquidated damages.

Engineer, also a former manager for design firm T.Y. Lin, died March 22 from his non-industry related infection.

Medical device firm will make use of automaker's logistics and manufacturing expertise to scale up and expedite ventilator production.

More than 100 architects and engineers have already entered ENR Midwest's 2020 Top Design Firms and there's still time to fill out the survey.

Construction in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Wisconsin is seen as essential infrastructure, so work continues on most sites in those states. Minnesota, Kentucky, Missouri and Kansas's orders broadly exempt outdoor activities. Michigan's order includes public works construction as essential.

It’s a common misconception that Hoover Dam is the nation’s oldest concrete gravity dam.

As the largest public-private partnership delivered in a National Park, the $109-million expansion and renovation of the Gateway Arch Museum had to meet stringent rules on how the landscape could be altered, what materials could be used and how much the existing museum could be changed.

The 41st Street Pedestrian Arch Bridge project team overcame the daunting task of spanning 1,470 ft over active rail lines, catenary wires and all eight lanes of Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive.