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Help! I'm having trouble seeing where health care reform will take our industry. I believe we've got to do something, but I need your help in understanding what it could mean to construction. 

What do cars, laptop computers, cell phones and power tools all have in common? Lithium-ion batteries, hailed by many as the answer to our fossil-energy problems. While much debate has loomed over the mining impact of today's electric motors and the rare-earth metals they consume, the source of lithium-ion

 Preliminary ENR tally shows states and localities requesting more than $9.6 billion in new ARRA discretionary grants, but DOT only has $1.5 billion to award. (UPDATE adds data from Texas.)

  New report shows Wyoming is fastest, Hawaii slowest, in getting ARRA road dollars into projects under way. 

With music perhaps, punnily, fitting considering its rocky history, Atlanta's international terminal construction is a video star.

Treat others the way you want to be treated. It's an ancient truth, which every generation learns as if it were new. We neglect it at the peril of our costs, our schedules and our humanity.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants to put climate-change science on trial and is calling on the nation’s chief environmental steward, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, to do the job. Now, this is an idea whose time has come!

Was the industry any safer last year? Depends on who you talk to. New data ENR obtained today from the U.S. Dept. of Labor confirms that last year was not just one of the worst years for crane accidents in recent history, it was the worst year by far, while overall construction fatalities are on a downward trend.

I'll give the New York Times credit for a good story on what the Siberian dam and hydro station disaster says about the state of the Russian built environment.  Also, the Times has a good photo from Reuters that is better than ones from the Associated Press that appear on ENR.com. Some more photos are in this blog

Sustainability includes common-sense principles that are universal, be they the health of your own self -- or of your airport, as officials found out at a seminal Green Airports conference in Chicago.