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Engineers without Borders teams up with American Water Works Association and American Society of Civil Engineers to assist underserved communities in the U.S.

So many construction professionals have told me that they now travel with a tablet and do most of their reading on it. Starting with the March 3 issue, the full Engineering News-Record magazine experience can be an important part of that reading.

Encouraging words from the Senate's lead negotiator about the status of talks with the House to produce a new water resources bill.

Gov. Chris Christie (N.J.-R) addressed more than 1,900 members and guests of the Moles, a heavy-construction industry group, talking about cancelling the ARC Tunnel, big infrastructure projects and "telling the truth to each other."

ENR-published data show 2013 average wage for merit-shop laborers ranges from $13.61 to $16.84 per hour, depending on the region.

Respondents to a survey on tall-building research priorities rank fire and life-safety studies at the top. I think that's hogwash.

At the Beavers 59th Annual Awards dinner in Los Angeles on Jan. 17, I received the group’s award for service to the construction industry. It felt like receiving an Oscar to be called to the podium in front of a record crowd of almost 2,200 industry professionals and handed a heavy golden statue of a beaver posed in front of a tall, curving dam. I would like to share with you some excerpts from my acceptance remarks.

Planners behind a new elevated urban park in D.C. hope that their new project serves to bring communities long divided by the Anacostia River together and spur econonic development.

It is possible for any building to be net zero, if enough photovoltaics are deployed. It’s just not economical to purchase the number of panels required for traditional buildings. For the SMUD operations center, the design team kept its eye on creating an energy miser, to minimize the investment in PV.

In 2011, when I was reporting the Jeff Baker Award of Excellence story, I heard—off the record—about another net-zero-annual-energy-use (NZE) building project just entering the design stage that had been influenced by the performance-based design-build NZE Research Support Facility (RSF) at the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL). Baker was the visionary behind that building.