Articles by Jeff Yoders

As COVID-19 upended daily work lives in a year like no other, current and future construction participants found new ways to get the job done

Engineer of innovative sports structures led team that delivered first large-scale use of woven PTFE laminate mesh at Allianz Field

In March, Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, Chief of Engineers for the U.S. Army and 54th Commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, was getting ready for a well-deserved retirement. Then the full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic came into focus. 

Grayslake Station already had a tight five-month construction schedule before the pandemic began

First new building in 50 years at Fermilab in Batavia, Ill., is built for the future

WSP’s global structures leader leaves behind a résumé of innovative buildings and young engineers he mentored as he enters semiretirement

AGC survey of 1,300 member firms shows most contractors expect demand for new construction to fall in 2021.

A structural engineering pioneer and innovator who has changed tall building design for more than 30 years, Robert Halvorson is ENR Midwest's 2020 Legacy Award winner.

EPA, Energy and Interior Dept. heads, once confirmed, and new White House advisers in boosted roles, will execute ramped-up climate-change mission, including Trump-era policy reversals.

Using 80-ksi steel in upper perimeter columns—a first in the U.S.—helped the design team reduce the steel by almost 20% at 320 S. Canal, a 51-floor office tower under construction in Chicago’s Loop.