After all the hosannas about infrastructure’s importance, it’s unsettling how quickly faith falters when it comes to paying.

Typically, ENR editors spend days shadowing an Award of Excellence winner to report the story. Nadine M. Post, a veteran of seven previous AOE profiles, would usually “traipse around with the AOE winner,” conduct video and print interviews in person, often at several locations, and observe the winner in action with others, she says.

Next on Congress' agenda is planning for an infrastructure bill, and we have ideas to help members start. While consensus will be difficult, much of the outline already exists.

In November we asked for thoughts from people who work in the industry and from employers about the challenges posed by vaccination. Would people get the vaccine? Could employers insist on it?

After the shocks of 2020—pandemic, fires, floods and economic turmoil—clearly nothing is certain about the year ahead.

Despite a tumultuous year that made traveling to jobsites difficult at best, ENR readers still came through—and then some—by submitting more than 900 entries to our annual photo contest.

Innovator of much read and respected Top Firm rankings and market analyses retires on Dec. 31.