Articles by Jonathan Keller

ENR’s Construction Industry Confidence Index remained steady in Q1, rising slightly to a rating of 61, a one-point bump from the final quarter of 2021. The index had fallen the previous two quarters. 

Built to serve foster and community children and at-risk families in Chicago’s Roosevelt Square area, this 11,000-sq-ft community center was completed in just 13 months.

The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building’s roof, designed to resemble the billowing clouds of Texas—and including 23 separate structures—proved to be this museum project’s biggest challenge.

The long awaited Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act has been passed, but construction market confidence has continued to dip among industry executives.

With another year of the coronavirus pandemic nearing its end, owners have mostly moved past reactionary plans for completing stalled projects and are now actively planning new ones. Looking ahead, how will fundamental changes to market sectors lead owners to potentially reconfigure business models?

For the first time since the 2010 housing crisis, total revenue for Top 600 firms decreased. Read the complete report about productivity, costs, bottlenecks—and what executives say.

Worries over price inflation and persistent labor shortages have cooled optimism among construction execs, but overall confidence in the market remains strong.

Last year, as the pandemic upended the construction industry, contractors hatched a plan to come together. Determined to keep jobsites open and deemed essential around the U.S., a group of contractors partnered on turnkey coronavirus prevention protocols for all companies to use.

Sustainable design and contracting revenue dips, while healthy building standards help projects turn over a new leaf.

From smart cities to bridges, these five projects highlight work being performed on the continent by firms that ranked on ENR's top international lists this year.