Succession planning—knowing your best candidates for promotion in leading positions—is critical to the success of every enterprise.
Whether you consider California to be paradise, dystopia or both, the state is certain to be the beneficiary of the largest share of federal funding from the $1.2-trillion infrastructure act, about $45 billion.
Industry reels from another year with a perplexing array of uncertainties.
In COVID-19's early stages, construction firms counted on field crews to become virologists virtually overnight to keep jobsites open. If companies can change overnight to stamp out the virus, why can’t they do the same for racism and other forms of bias?
California utility names its accounting system after ENR economics pioneer Elsie Eaves—a look back at Elsie and an update on the big year for current economics editor Alisa Zevin.
Construction companies swim in an overwhelming ocean of bits and bytes. To cut through the cacophony and identify what data is important, Seattle-based project management firm OAC held its first ever datathon competition earlier this summer
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.
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.
The deadline is fast approaching to make your voice heard in a poll that will determine which of the finalists in ENR’s annual photo contest will appear on the cover of our Jan. 11 print and digital magazines.
The next few months, most agree, will be crucial to the future of the construction economy.
If you think the election is tough to sort out, wait until Congress turns to fixing the economy.
Instead of coming up on stage at the National Academy of Construction’s annual meeting in Boston this year, I joined 36 industry leaders on the group’s virtual stage on Oct. 29.
ENR’s editors used its opinion page to weigh the pros and cons of the Trump presidency for the construction industry and found that the cons heavily outweighed the pros.
Moving ENR’s Award of Excellence celebration to an online platform this year allowed us to reimagine what was possible in this format.
Managing Editor Scott Blair has a passion for videography. He learned that television’s Telly Awards honor videos created across all screens—including ENR’s work posted on ENR.com/videos.
Construction has a long, often unenviable history with race, and an image as a closed fraternity of white men.
Everyone talks about the construction industry’s COVID-19 new normal, but what exactly should that be?
Back in January, when Pam Radtke Russell, ENR’s deputy editor for national news, started reporting the cover story on this year’s Award of Excellence winner Cris Liban, she tried to keep up with his hectic cross-country schedule.
From the hundreds of thousands of page views on ENR.com, we know readers are on a quest to understand the rapidly changing situations they face during the COVID-19 emergency.