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Risk Management

Surety Sector P3 Progress Report

How the surety industry sees public-private partnerships

Lenore Marema

August 10, 2016

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State lawmakers have been adopting P3 laws slowly and steadily for over a decade.

ENR Wins Four National Awards in B2B Editorial Competition

Janice L. Tuchman

August 10, 2016

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With the 2016 Olympics starting in Rio de Janeiro this week, I’m excited to report that ENR brought home “the gold” in our own field—a competition hosted and judged by business-to-business editors.

Energy Viewpoint

Nuclear Energy: A Love/Fear Affair

Thomas F. Armistead

July 27, 2016

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America’s conflicted relationship with nuclear energy is back at center stage, and ENR Energy’s lead story explores it this month.

Business Development Techniques for Supercharging Your Revenue-Generating Engine

Deb Schindler

July 27, 2016

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Architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) revenue generation has traditionally been viewed as somewhat organized but is tracked through a firm-specific approach.

Risk Management

Is the Match Between a Contractor and Project Heaven-Made?

A new tool, the author writes, will help make project selection easier

Thomas C. Schleifer PhD

July 27, 2016

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There are no bad projects—just bad matches between contractors and projects.

Technological Progress

Which Was the True Golden Age of Engineering?

Figuring out when important inventions translate into better lives

Samuel C. Florman

July 22, 2016

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After 1950, I feared that engineering was entering into a dark age of public criticism and self-doubt.

Risk Management

End Bias in Big Construction Project Predictions

Could game theory provide a better result than Bayes Theorem?

Thom Neff

July 18, 2016

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Infrastructure planners and builders need to rethink how they approach and compute uncertainty and risk.

Viewpoint

Get Creative Engineering Juices Flowing

A leading engineering educator speaks out

Jeffrey S. Russell

July 6, 2016

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The ability to generate useful, feasible, patentable—and often surprising—concepts will be a defining competitive advantage, says a leading engineering educator

Education

Start Training in College for Construction Collaboration

Ryan Abbott Thompson E. Penney

June 30, 2016

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There are no longer rigid lines between fields of expertise

Viewpoint: A New Approach to Job Site Safety Reaps Benefits

By Jimmy Morgan and Eric Pfeiffer

June 29, 2016

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Every organization in the construction and manufacturing industries understands that safety is critical to success and strives to end each day without injury or incident. What does it take to make sure that every employee goes home whole and healthy at the end of a day of productive work?