Articles by Richard Korman

Progressive design-build may be part of the solution to avoiding losses, claims and litigation.

Safety executive for large energy contractor Quanta Services Compher leads a team to reduce its severe and fatal accidents by overhauling company practices according to “new view” safety principles. It seems to be working.

At a time when an aggressor is bombing cities to rubble, the construction of new buildings is a potent symbol of peace and commerce.

What was supposed to be an infrastructure Golden Age is turning out to be the Great Repricing.

Shreveport's Jimmie Davis bridge project needed two tries to attract enough design-build competitors.

Jessie Singer, author of “There Are No Accidents” (Simon & Schuster, 336 pages), works for a nonprofit dedicated to making cities safer for pedestrians and cyclists, but her views of error and accidents go far beyond urban life and cars.

Cash bribe amounts ranged from $1,500 to $3,000, with some exchanged in restaurant bathrooms, prosecutors say.

This year’s ENR Global Best Projects awardees, 34 in all, which you can learn about here, involved a lot of big deliveries—although not the kind that come in an Amazon box.

Special projects are built from good decisions, and the Canal Lachine cable stayed bridge—the symbolic centerpiece of the $1.3-billion Turcot Interchange reconstruction project in Montreal—is such a project.