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Original contractor Saudi Binladin Group is set to resume work on the Jeddah Tower and scheduled to complete construction in 42 months.

The mixed-use project was considered a victim of the pandemic and high interest rates but will resume without a requirement to include affordable housing.

The design-build team of Clark Construction Group and SmithGroup + HKS Joint Venture broke ground in August on the El Paso VA Health Care Center at Fort Bliss, Texas.

It isn’t an exaggeration to say that Nadine M. Post is the top journalist on building design and construction and related topics. Her retirement after a 46-year association with ENR leaves a gap impossible to fill.

The Giant Magellan Telescope will be one of the world's most advanced ground-based telescopes once completed, but for now the challenge is to turn the finalized design for its rotating enclosure into a buildable reality.

Planned 205,000-sq-ft, three-story building would replace training center built in 1990 on a 26-acre campus in Englewood, Colo., according to the team.

GSA expects the project to incorporate low embodied-carbon materials and sustainable building systems.  

A 1972 ENR cover story said of Wiss Janney Elstner Associates in Northbrook, Ill., “It exists largely by looking for trouble, both before and after the fact of structural distress and failure.”

Leading structural engineering expert is remembered by colleague as the "consummate professional."