Articles by Jeff Yoders

Higher prices for lumber and other wood products, driven by January's 20% tariff on Canadian softwood lumber and new tariffs on Chinese products,   will increase rebuilding costs in areas hit by Hurricane Florence. 

The pace and complexity of projects combined with a labor shortage challenge specialty contractors

The Hudson’s site presents problems for the team trying to build the tallest tower in the city

The dust has settled from a methane explosion last month that brought down the roof of a sludge concentration building at the Calumet water reclamation plant on Chicago’s far south side, but there is still uncertainty as to what triggered the blast.

ENR Midwest's judges sifted through a slate of 106 high-quality entries that made naming the winners of our 2018 Best Projects Awards a difficult task.

Educating staff about not opening themselves up to spearphishing and hundreds of other people-based threats, and also making sure that software and the equipment employees use that's connected to the 'net means today's construction IT departments must fight two very different security wars.

Mechanical, Inc. is our Midwest Specialty Contractor of the Year.

A study from the universities of Wisconsin and Oregon used GIS to show network infrastructure could be underwater in as little as 15 years.