Tom Sawyer, ENR deputy editor, retires this week—leaving a lasting legacy for our enterprise. 

Faced with new climate-related threats and changes every day, it’s time to present a new, environmental version of Pascal’s wager.

The challenge of shooting this week’s cover about the new class of Top 20 Under 40 winners was conveying the drive, tenacity and leadership skills of these industry professionals in a group photo.

On the surface, it seemed like an outrageous defensive move following a painful tragedy. Louis Berger Group has refused requests from the Dept. of Labor to hand over emails with FIGG Bridge Engineers about its peer review of the ill-fated Florida International University pedestrian bridge.

How many people not in a history class still talk about the landmark Supreme Court case won by a Brooklyn kosher chicken company, A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp., in 1935?

After new Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) restated the project's priorities, transportation realists looking for good news let loose with an affirming “Amen.” 

The cost of the design for a new Kansas City International Airport has nearly doubled since a developer was picked in September 2017 in a very open, if chaotic, process. Now, Chicago is going with a completely closed process to pick the designer of a new terminal at O'Hare International in a process that's just as bad.

The photo that appears on the cover of this issue of ENR, a drill rig puncturing concrete or stone at the base of a new retaining wall being built in Chattanooga, Tenn., came out on top in online voting for the image that would make the best foldout cover.

Jan. 31 is the last day to submit proposals to present at ENR’s annual FutureTech conference in June. After the submissions period ends the conference planning team will analyze the proposals for the emerging trends shaping the construction world in the years to come.

Our industry can no longer look the other way at the impacts of climate change.