Coverage of key events across the region.

First new building in 50 years at Fermilab in Batavia, Ill., is built for the future

“Ideas and solutions are the easy part,” says Ricardo Khan, senior director of innovation at Mortenson Construction. It’s “the process” that is the real challenge. Khan’s midday keynote captured one of the key themes of the second day of the virtual ENR FutureTech conference—the need to identify the problems in your construction process before you start throwing technology at them

Innovations in construction technology are reconfigured for the COVID-19 pandemic as firms look to preserve the momentum behind digitization

The city of Denver now estimates that the start of its Colorado Convention Center expansion will be delayed by at least a year and possibly longer, following an alleged bid-rigging scandal that derailed contractor selection late last year.

In a bid to speed work on projects in remote sites and cope with labor shortages, Mortenson has  announced an agreement with tech start-up Built Robotics to expand the contractors deployments of fully autonomous construction projects on renewable energy projects.