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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."

Final upgrades at the Calexico West Land Port of Entry on the border with Mexico are set to begin next year.

Clayco will build the 440-acre complex at a long-defunct steel plant site that will host the first utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer in the U.S., the developer says.

25 US grantees were selected from 300 applicants, some of them regional coalitions, to address air quality and reduce greenhouse gas emissions—with Pennsylvania and California as big winners.

The project's centerpiece, the West Conservatory, is an expressed-steel glasshouse with doubly curved members, little repetition and tight tolerances.

Agency publishes updated flood standard requiring project participants who rebuild after disaster to consider future flood risks. 

Children’s Health and UT Southwestern Medical Center has selected a team of HKS and Perkins&Will to design a $5-billion pediatric health campus in Dallas.

Demolition of a printing press building on a 30-acre site in Chicago is set for this summer to make way for a casino and hotel.

The state implemented a custom energy conservation code based on the 2021 IECC this year and is in the process of developing a stretch energy code.