Agencies seek construction sector support for project contracting and workforce execution, with billions in investment seen to expand options for drought-plagued water systems and other overburdened infrastructure.

Attendees at Groundbreaking Women in Construction shared how emerging global priorities, developing skill sets, stronger self-advocacy and next-generation technology development are changing the trajectory of women's careers.

David Odeh, principal of Odeh Engineers/WSP, is helping bring to life ASCE's Future World Vision program through designing what he calls “future-ready” buildings.

Veteran and rising leaders, including ENR's Top 20 Under 40 for 2024, shared career enhancing strategies at magazine's Emerging Leaders Forum held March 19-20.

Phil Washington grew up on the South Side of Chicago in public housing with a single mom caring for a family of six. “The people building infrastructure in my community did not look like me,” he says. “I wondered, ‘Why can’t I get a job helping to build my own community?’”

California agencies with tens of billions of dollars of construction joined more than 40 other groups in a movement to drive contracting opportunities for historically underutilized businesses.

Would a student who has never seen a tunnel under construction envision a tunneling career? The Moles, a heavy construction leadership group with its roots in tunneling, thinks the answer is “not likely.”

Now set to augment transportation construction projects underway across New York and New Jersey, officials are fast developing programs to expand infrastructure to meet climate change, resilience and sustainability needs, fueled by billions in more recent federal funding.

To meet demand for industry transformation in fast-changing markets, women are moving quickly to innovate in leadership and in diversity and inclusion impact.

Recalling limited facetime with C-suite executives as a young engineer, the now CEO of the engineer's North America business told ENR conference attendees that he welcomed emerging professional feedback "as a key part of being a good leader.”