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Design-build team of Walsh, SOM and Murphy Group persevered through curveballs to recreate Chicago's Ellis Island as two hotels.

Order to Benton Harbor comes as city already is in process of replacing thousands of lead pipe water service lines

With negotiations at impasse over raises and pension benefits in a new contract, employees at the construction equipment manufacturer's U.S. facilities went on strike at midnight on Oct. 14.

A 100-ton hydraulic drill rig tipped over onto the street at the site of the Chicago Transit Authority's $2.1-billion Red/Purple line project. No injuries were reported and the cause of the incident is being investigated.

Automaker will build electric vehicle assembly and battery plant campus in Tennessee, plus a pair of battery factories in Kentucky.

The merger follows a trend of reorganizing smaller districts into larger regional councils.

Union-backed analysis of federal data says apprenticeships deliver similar compensation and social outcomes as four-year college degrees.

Heavy rains leading to a rather new phenomenon, static liquefaction of sand embankments, only previously observed in tailings dams led to property damage and flooding in central Michigan.

The drop indicates a slowdown in the construction recovery, ABC reports.