OdySea, the Southwest’s largest aquarium at 200,000 sq ft, not only features more than 50 exhibits and 500 different species of marine life but also envelops its attractions within a unique circular structure featuring specially designed steel and concrete support elements.

The design-build Terminal Island Water Reclamation Plant expansion project, featuring high-tech water-purifying treatments, was a study in complexity. 

Coordinating construction on this $120-million expansion project amid continuous operations at Yuma Regional Medical Center proved to be the biggest challenge during this nearly three-year endeavor.

Headed to its next $6B phase, Second Ave. Subway faces mega-funding challenges

Hiring good high-school engineering teachers is harder than ever these days, but David Mangus is an outlier.

To select the next class of ENR Newsmakers, our editors searched the magazine’s web and print pages for individuals who had served the “best interests of the construction industry and the public” in 2017.

In 2015, Stephen Muck was sitting in a Carnegie Mellon University seminar on robotics, and he could not stop thinking about how the technology might benefit the construction industry, which suffers from a labor shortage, especially for backbreaking work like tying rebar. 

Containing debris and providing a safe worksite were the key goals of the Despe Top-Down demolition system, a self- contained, six-story metal cocoon that can hydraulically lower itself around a tower as the structure is demolished floor by floor.