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ENR Midwest’s 2020 Best Projects

Best Project Manufacturing: The Bystronic Experience

November 9, 2020

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Project team remediated a site with no additions to schedule.

ENR Midwest’s 2020 Best Projects

Award of Merit Landscape/Hardscape/Urban Design: Bark River Restoration

November 9, 2020

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This river park restoration took a blighted area and made it into a community asset.

Midwest City Scoop: Construction Starts in Indianapolis

November 9, 2020

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Dodge offers data on 2020 construction starts for billings in the Indianapolis area

Ethics

Two Consultants Set to Plead Guilty in Boosted Rate Scheme To Bail Out Ohio Nuclear Plants

Jeff Yoders

October 30, 2020

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Two of five charged with accepting bribes agreed to cooperate with authorities; a former state politician and two others pleaded not guilty

George Cullen and Jeannie Cullen-Schultz

Construction Companies

Fifth Generation Owners Take Helm of $400M Wisconsin Contractor JP Cullen

Jeannie Cullen-Schultz and George Cullen become co-presidents, succeeding Ron Becher

Jeff Yoders

October 29, 2020

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Brother and sister George Cullen and Jeannie Cullen-Schultz are named co-presidents of the Janesville-based building contractor, succeeding Ron Becher, 60, who died of leukemia in August.

Obituary

Architect-Developer James Loewenberg Revitalized Chicago Lakefront

Founder of Magellan Development dies at 86 after battle with cancer

Jeff Yoders

October 20, 2020

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Visionary, dead of cancer at age 86, created the distinctive Lakeshore East neighborhood and mentored new generations of architects and real estate professionals in the city. p>

Obituary

Don Rieser, Veteran McHugh Construction Superintendent and Leader, Dies at 92

Concrete expert had key roles on Chicago's Water Tower Place and other landmarks

Jeff Yoders

October 20, 2020

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Concrete expert had key roles in delivering Chicago's Water Tower Place and other landmark projects, and promoted minority hiring on company crews.

ENR MidAtlantic's 2020 Best Projects

Best Specialty Construction: 1331 Maryland

October 16, 2020

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The design of the 14-story, LEED Silver-certified 1331 Maryland project aims to evoke the District of Columbia’s grand residential buildings of the 1920s and 1930s.

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Technology of Tomorrow

New Ways to Work Take Center Stage at the First Virtual ENR FutureTech Conference

Day one of annual construction technology conference shows that distancing, data availability are advancing tech adoption

October 13, 2020

Telematics, wearables, online collaboration, 3D model management tools and the ever-evolving ways contractors collect and use data took center stage in the first day of ENR's all-virtual FutureTech construction technology conference.

Fraud

Wisconsin Concrete Contractor Illegally Received $260M Using Federal DBE Program Front

Sonag Ready Mix of Milwaukee fraudulently used a front company to net federal DBE contracts

Annemarie Mannion

October 7, 2020

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Owners of Sonag Ready Mix of Milwaukee have been convicted or pled guilty to fraudulently reaping more than $260 million in government contracts intended to benefit minority and veteran-owned businesses.