One evening in 2010, Award of Excellence winner Jason F. McLennan and Bullitt Center developer Denis Hayes—the man McLennan credits with masterminding the Living Building Challenge’s most important project—were chatting about life as they walked to dinner.
Construction management pioneer John Tishman died Feb. 6 at age 90 after a long illness. He managed the construction of the original 110-story World Trade Center twin towers in New York City and the 100-story John Hancock Center in Chicago, as well as Century City in Los Angeles, Walt Disney’s EPCOT Center in Florida and the restoration of Carnegie Hall.
This week completes an annual ritual for ENR editors. Each fall, we comb through the issues of the previous year for individuals who have served the best interests of the construction industry and the public.
ENR's Editor-in-Chief offers a tongue-in-cheek parody of "The 12 Days of Christmas" that looks at 12 construction trends she believes will be important in the coming year.
Attendees at ENR's FutureTech East conference in New York City at the start of October explored the industry's future and looked inside a mid-size construction firm's innovation culture, including an invention that some are calling the Google Maps of construction. Rogers-O'Brien Construction is testing the software created by Joe Williams, director of technology, and Todd Wynne, construction technology manager, on projects.
At its annual Build Business conference, the Society for Marketing Professional Services continued to grapple with the changing roles of marketers and business developers.