Articles by Jim Parsons

Over the six years it took to build Terminal C at Orlando International Airport, the world experienced a crippling pandemic, a precipitous drop and equally sharp rebound in passenger air travel, supply chain disruptions and other issues—all of which compounded the inherent challenges of creating a 1.8-million-sq-ft aviation facility rich in technology and amenities at one of the nation’s fastest growing airports.

State report faults agency for not posting proper signage alerting motorists to construction site in median but “serious” violation carries no financial penalty in wake of I-695 work zone incident that killed six.

After an early morning structural collapse of the 447-ft-long, three-span steel K-frame structure sent a bus and several passenger cars plummeting approximately 100 ft into a ravine below and injuring 10 people, Fern Hollow was suddenly in the national spotlight—both as a source of relief that a more serious tragedy had been averted and as a symbol of the nation’s deteriorating transportation infrastructure.

Construction Inclusion Week, set for Oct. 16-20, has more than 5,000 contractor and other participants signed up this year; while leaders on Oct. 3 launched AEC Unites, a nonprofit focused on recruitment of Black professionals and sustained hiring of Black-owned companies.

More than three years after its $298-million acquisition by construction services provider Arcosa Inc., Houston-based recycling and demolition specialist Cherry Cos. is gradually rebranding itself as Arcosa Stabilized & Recycling.

Facilities that could generate triple-digit megawatts of solar power are set to start construction at Kansas City International Airport and Dulles International Airport.

Construction is set to begin later this year on the $3-billion TransWest Express Transmission Project, a 732-mile high-voltage interregional transmission system designed to deliver about 20,000 GW of renewable energy per year to western states and in early September on the estimated $8-billion SunZia transmission project that will carry an initial 3 GW of clean power to southwest U.S. markets. 

Nashville, Tenn.’s signature downtown arterial, named Broadway, will soon boast a new gateway bridge to make travel safer and more efficient.

Martin Concrete Construction’s website points up a number that Cory Lee, the company's president, says epitomizes what the Atlanta-based turn-key concrete specialty contractor is all about—a 93% repeat customer rate.

Worries about recessions and resources have done little to dampen the Las Vegas area construction market, and few specialty contractors better illustrate the current run of robustness than Commercial Roofers Inc. (CRI), ENR Southwest Specialty Contractor of the Year.