Months before a six-story apartment building in Davenport, Iowa, partially collapsed May 28, a structural engineer advised the property owner that an unexpected void space had been discovered during repairs to a damaged area of the exterior brick wall.

Six-story Davenport apartment structure had been undergoing exterior brick wall repairs prior to partial collapse on May 28, with two people feared still inside and dead. 

CTA's plan calls for its Red Line L train to be extended 5.6 miles into Chicago's Far South Side with four new stations and a storage and maintenance facility.

Suit contends that city and Metropolitan Water Reclamation District mishandled operation of river floodgates, causing damage when more than 1 million gallons of water flooded the skyscraper during a 2020 rainstorm. 

Updates about construction professionals in the Midwest region.

Dodge offers data on projected 2023 construction starts in the Milwaukee area.

Dodge offers data on projected 2023 construction starts in the Cleveland area.

A Chicago infrastructure engineering firm is partnering with an elementary school to encourage students to love math and science and foster a new generation of engineers.

A 110-year-old embankment wall will come tumbling down later this year as part of a major enhancement to Chicago Transit Authority’s (CTA) $2.1-billion project to modernize the Red and Purple lines.

Designing the 323,000-sq-ft building to efficiently serve the hospital's program was one of the project's big challenges, says the design team.