A proposal released this spring to clarify which waters in the United States fall under the protections of the Clean Water Act is a hot-button issue among industry firms, lawmakers and environmental advocates, and on Feb. 4, U.S. lawmakers took the unusual step of holding a bicameral joint committee hearing to take a closer

I've had a bee in my bonnet about office cubicles for years—even before I lost my private office to a cubicle way back in 1998. Finally, a report is out that substantiates my concerns about the negative impacts of a lack of privacy for so-called "knowledge work."

Environment and Public Works panel's first hearing this year focused on Topic A: long-term legislation to bolster the Highway Trust Fund and extend the highway program.

Newsflash: the more powerful party in a claims negotiation tends to be a risk-taker and come out better in the give-and-take mainly by trying to take more than he or she gives.

Are you one of ENR’s Newsmakers from across the years? We want you for a photo op at this year’s Award of Excellence gala. To help celebrate the 50th anniversary of the program, we plan to open the evening with a group photo of all the returning Newsmakers from years’ past. A week after the event, we will publish the photo in the magazine and online, with a story about the outstanding accomplishments of our Newsmakers over the years.

President Obama in his State of the Union address and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), who gave the GOP response, voiced support for infrastructure, but with differences.

With two big hospital projects in trouble, the VA seems to have a lock on first place. 

Could the latest wood-framed apartment project fire drive up the price of builders' risk insurance in that category?

You will notice a new name associated with Engineering News-Record, both online and in our print products, because ENR is now a part of a new company—Dodge Data & Analytics (DD&A).

  How many lawsuits can a single project generate? Here's a building with a long list of complaints. An insurer that convinced a federal court that its general liability policy does not cover defects in a contractor's work on an Indiana concert hall's roof framing still must go another legal round,