Scott Lewis

The restoration of the Statue of Liberty, seen on this 1984 cover, presented numerous challenges.

This 1984 cover depicts the world’s first full-scale tension leg platform.

The unusual home seen on this 1966 cover showcases then-contemporary innovations in structural concrete, as seen in this clamshell design.

This 1952 cover depicts two enormous concrete caissons sitting in a natural drydock in Stony Point, N.Y.

This 1960 cover depicts a huge nylon bag lifting a 384-ft-dia steel geodesic dome, the largest such pneumatic erection operation up to that time.

ENR cover image depicts a right-of-way for the Trans-Canada Highway being carved through a stretch of the Canadian Rockies in British Columbia.

This 1985 cover image depicts the largest iron ore mine in the world, Carajas, in Para State in Brazil, developed by CVRD, now known as Vale.

This 1955 cover depicts a supersonic wind tunnel being built at the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory in Mountain View, Calif.

This 1954 image depicts the excavation of an 8,000-ft-long channel to carry water downstream from the Roanoke Rapids Dam powerhouse in North Carolina.

The world’s most sophisticated and complex flood barrier system today protects southwest Holland. It was developed in response to a catastrophe.<