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The Midwest Specialty Contractor of the Year provides everything from wind and solar support to oil and gas pipelines and is helping the recovery from Hurricane Irma

As manufacturing, utility and energy production work continues to boom, the largest specialty contractors are reinvesting in themselves

Paul Villotti has joined Henderson Engineers as its director of life safety. With 35 years of experience in fire protection and life safety, Villotti is widely recognized as a leading expert in the field.

A team led by Edgemoor Infrastructure and Real Estate, Bethesda, Md., on Sept. 6 won the recommendation of the City Council selection committee of Kansas City as the developer and designer of a $1-billion, single-terminal redevelopment of Kansas City International Airport.

Our Best Project winners include a skyscraper built on top of an active rail line near the Chicago River, several innovative office buildings, the meticulous restoration of a state capitol building, multiple rail projects that brought service to underserved downtowns in large cities, one of the largest LEED-platinum corporate offices in the U.S., retrofits to aging coal-fired electrical plants that brought them into modern environmental compliance and some healthcare projects that put patients first.

ODOT’s largest project ever, and its first P3, are nearing completion as the state looks at a 35-year maintenance period for its P3 partner before the road is handed back.

The business of wind generation is less than breezy these days for clean-energy producer NextEra Energy Resources.