Our annual Top 20 Under 40 is published in the first ENR Midwest edition of the year, but the time to nominate a candidate for 2017 is right now.

Metropolitan Council, the regional policy-making and planning agency for the Twin Cities region, achieved a milestone in the long planning process for the proposed $1.77-billion Southwest Light Rail Transit Line project.

The Missouri Dept. of Transportation had $18 million to replace original voided concrete slab bridges at three locations on Interstate 70 in Columbia.

The bar for Mortenson Construction can never be set too high nor set by others working in the industry, as far as Dan Johnson, company president, is concerned.

It may go down as “the biggest little project” ever undertaken by The Christman Co.

Jerry Harmon has been promoted by ACME Constructors Inc. to the position of vice president of operations.

In a typically close vote, Mortenson Construction has been named the ENR Midwest Contractor of the Year.

As public spending ramps up, design firms in the Midwest will continue to reap increased work. But as recoveries go, this one is a long, old row to hoe.