Articles by L.L. Poirier

To bring Saudi Arabia’s new multicultural theme park from concept to completion in just 80 days in late 2022, a team of 70 design-build contractors worked across three shifts on a 24/7 jobsite. Careful coordination and supervision ensured quality and cohesion across the project.

This $522-million water treatment facility will clean 7.5 million cu m of water per day to expand farming land and combat water scarcity in northwestern Egypt.

Crews navigated mid-project changes and evolving materials challenges on this 6-acre development, all while maintaining a no-nonsense focus on safety.

Building three adjacent structures concurrently for Colorado State University’s Spur Campus on a brownfield site required extensive collaboration.

Spanning 1.1 million gross sq ft, the $1.8-billion Intuit Dome is the latest in a long series of sports arenas to rise along the West Coast.

Across Buist Electric’s primary stomping grounds of western Michigan, business continues to be strong. The Byron Center, Mich.-based electrical contractor is on track to grow its regional revenue by 25% in 2023, continuing a pace set over the last several years.

Business continues to grow for Ogden, Utah-based Staker Parson Materials & Construction, a CRH Company, which has provided infrastructure, commercial and residential construction services to all market sectors in the Intermountain region for the last 70 years.

Lance Franklin and Frank Reich, co-founders and co-CEOs of New York City-based Triton Construction Co., would like to say they planned the firm to be a leader in regional nonunion construction, but gaining that position in a region long dominated by organized labor happened by fate.

As many workers and companies still embrace hybrid and remote models established during the COVID-19 pandemic—even several years out from its onset—impacts on construction continue, with some sectors thriving and others diminishing.

ENR New York’s Design Firm of the Year has provided multidisciplinary services to some defining projects across New York and New Jersey—and beyond.