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DOT Secretary discusses surface transportation funding, public-private partnerships and TIGER grants.

An article in the New Republic has kicked up a storm, calling the LEED-Platinum-rated Bank of America Tower in Manhattan "toxic." The article makes some good points about how developers have pulled the wool over the eyes of tenants and the public by (falsely) marketing LEED-rated buildings as energy efficient. But there is more to the story than meets the eye.

istockphoto We've taken the success of the ENR RiskReview, launched last year, as a sign that you are eager for more straightforward talk about risk, disputes, guarantees, ethics, regulation and law. Two months from now, ENR will hold its first full-day Risk & Compliance Summit, September 20th, 2013, in New York

A bipartisan Senate deal will lead to votes—perhaps by the start of the August congressional break—on nominees for federal posts that are important to construction companies and unions.

The window for entries to ENR's construction science fiction writing contest closes at the end of July. There are prizes for the best received. We are looking for people who understand construction to imagine a vision of a future in construction and express it through the lens of science fiction. Who better to do it than the readers of ENR? Here's a sneak preview of one entry just in. Click here for full contest details, and then give it a shot. Start writing!

The tunnel-boring machine is howling and it's raining sludge when a project engineer informs us that our ride out of this damp, dark place has just broken down.

In a big break with tradition, AIA’s board of directors approved a proposal to revise eligibility criteria for the group's prestigious Gold Medal award to include either an individual or two individuals working together.

The need for collaboration among construction project team members but the difficulty of getting people to share ideas was a continuing theme among speakers and attendees at the European Construction Institute conference June 13-14 in London.

AIA report says there is a significant shortage of skilled labor in the trades and a looming shortage of designers.

The American Institute of Architects has announced additions and updates to its model contract documents and guides, including for BIM and digital practice.. .