ENR correspondent Peter Reina took a journey into the Chernobyl exclusion zone in eastern Ukraine to see the construction of a new enclosure over the reactor at the destroyed nuclear power station.
Judy Schreiner details her trip through Saudi Arabia into war-torn Kuwait in the aftermath of the Gulf War to document the rebuilding work as well as efforts to bring the nation's heavily damaged oil fields back online.
David Rosenbaum recalls his visit to the largest privately owned dam project in world, and how his experience traveling may have helped convince him to turn his efforts to teaching.
During the 1950s and 60s, engineers and scientists sought ways to use nuclear weapons for major construction projects such as harbors, roads and even alternative routes for the Panama Canal.
On a Saturday morning in the summer of 1966, Vinton Bacon, general superintendent of the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Chicago, pulled his car into a service station near his suburban home for gas and an oil check. The attendant found four sticks of dynamite wired to the car’s engine. Only a faulty connection prevented them from exploding.
Access to water played a critical role in the development of Los Angeles into one of the country’s largest cities. In 1900, it covered 61 square miles and had 102,000 residents.
During the 19th century, Chicago’s sewage got dumped into the Chicago River and flowed into Lake Michigan. Because the city’s drinking water was, and still is, drawn from the lake via two mile-long tunnels, officials feared that the sewage would endanger the water supply.
