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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.”

Officials proposed contractor Big D Builders Inc. of Meridian, Idaho, pay nearly $200,000 in fines after a co-owner and two other workers were killed in the collapse.

Rigger Jorge De La Torre, 27, fell to his death, but motorists in vehicles miraculously sustained only injuries in the accident earlier this spring.

Labor PM Keir Starmer's government formed Great British Energy to undertake early project work to reduce private sector developer risk and boost technologies such as carbon capture and storage, hydrogen and wave and tidal energy.

Police body cameras provided an unusual behind-the-scenes glimpse of the construction crew just after a disastrous accident at a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., high-rise project earlier this year, in video released by city police.

But Exxon CEO told investors Aug. 2 that long turmoil at $11B Golden Pass gas export terminal forces six-month startup delay, to end of 2025.

The $2.4B RioSol clean-energy transmission project between New Mexico and Arizona and NV Energy's $4.2B Green Link Nevada are set to carry more wind, solar and geothermal energy to western states.

The National Labor Relations Board has dropped an appeal of a ruling that said its 2023 Joint Employer rule was flawed, marking a win for construction and other business groups that preferred a 2023 definition of what constitutes a joint employer.

Innovator who founded and led claims and project management consultant Hill International in the 1970s and became a widely sought expert in both fields, died of complications from a stroke on June 22.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awards the first of seven large contracts to reduce flood risk on Staten Island.