Mark Shaw is the former editor-in-chief of ENR Mountain States, co-editor of ENR Southwest, and the senior editor in charge of ENR's Contractor Business Strategy. He serves as ENR's Rocky Mountain bureau chief in Denver.
Accident investigations board will look into the cause of an April explosion that killed two working on a basement water heater and badly injured a third .
Contracting firm leaders at the Associated General Contractors of America’s annual convention report that maintaining healthy backlogs and battling workforce shortages remain their top priorities.
After 14 years of planning and
numerous stops and starts on the controversial project, the $1.2-
billion expansion of Interstate 70 through Denver now can move forward.
Colorado's RoadX program illustrates what can be achieved when everyone—and everything—is in gear, listening, innovating and collaborating for the public good.
Few firms in the risk-averse world of commercial contracting are willing to invest heavily in developing their own project-delivery software and even fewer opt to share those innovations with peers and competitors.
Some states in the region could see as much as a 6% increase in construction starts this coming year; others will struggle with declining state revenues and population loss.