For third generation carpenter Russ Brotnov and his tight-knit Carpentry Plus Inc. team, it’s long been a family affair.

The U.S. Army’s senior research scientist for environmental science, believes that engineering is on the brink of a new paradigm, with more federal funds and industry acceptance reflecting his energy and passion.

Many have tried to adapt the exacting precision and  consistency of factory-floor robots to construction sites and work zones, but there are always compromises and problems.

Freshly armed in 1963 with a master’s degree in civil engineering from Istanbul Technical University, a young Ersin Arıoğlu and a partner had a daunting task: reinforce, upgrade and make an iconic contribution to Istanbul’s silhouette out of the Galata Tower, a building dating back to the Ottoman Empire.

While the construction industry continues to contend with the opioid crisis, Dave Argus found that offering a helping hand to recovering addicts is not only an act of compassion, it’s good business.

A shortage of life-saving medical oxygen at many hospitals in poor regions of the globe is of growing concern, thanks to increased demand caused by COVID-19, disrupted supply chains and many broken oxygen-generating plants at hospitals.

Chris Andrews has been working with computer-aided drafting and geographic information systems data nearly as long as they’ve been used in construction, “including mapping indoor facilities on the web, starting from work in startups in the late 90’s,” he says. 

To deliver the AIRA Residences project in Kuala Lumpur, builders had to overcome the differing challenges of transforming an existing 17-story, 64-unit residential structure built more than 40 years ago into a near replica of the sparkling, brand-new 18-story “twin” they were constructing next to it.

Soil contamination prompted construction of a 7-km-long extension of Cairo Metro’s Line 3 on a viaduct instead of below ground, as first planned.

Overcoming pandemic challenges, the team behind the largest highway improvement project on Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago completed work on time, below budget and with no reported COVID-19 cases in its workforce.