Under the radar, behind the project gate, inside the executive suite. That's where ENR's editors and bloggers deliver their insights, opinions, cool-headed analysis and hot-headed rantings.
Technology and how it can affect design and construction are clearly present concerns for ENR's readership. To gather our expanding coverage in one place, we have launched a twice-monthly e-mail newsletter designed to deliver insights, news, how-to's, links and more. Everything from gadget reviews to complex tech issues are explored in each FutureTech issue.
The General Services Administration's new-construction account has suffered a new blow, as the House Appropriations Committee cleared a bill that cuts all funding for the program in the next fiscal year.
Monitors can detect levels of chemicals and organic compounds at lower levels than ever before, but whether utilities should treat the water to remove the substances is a difficult question, said speakers and attendees at the American Water Works Association’s annual meeting.
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica (R-Fla.) plans to have his panel vote June 22 on his bill to attract private funding for high-speed rail service on the Northeast Corridor.
Technology usage is accelerating in many sectors of the construction industry, lurching forward in fits in starts in others. That's one of the reasons ENR is launching a new email newsletter with cutting edge through-leadership about its impact in your sector.
In male-dominated construction and utilities work, gender equality remains elusive. Less than 3% of construction workers are women—but for over 30 years, New York city-based non-profit Nontraditional Employment for Women (NEW) has challenged this convention by offering training and apprenticeships specifically for women in these two sectors.
If the hybrid technology inside John Deere's new 644K and 944K wheel loaders appears strikingly similar to LeTourneau's massive L-1350 loader, it's not just because they run on diesel-electric power.
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