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My recent trip to Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering neatly preceded ENR’s annual Education Report so in addition to giving the 12th Vecellio Distinguished Lecture in Blacksburg, Va., on Oct. 5,  I was able to interview students and faculty for this week's cover story on the Raising the Bar initiative. The full text of my lecture is inside.

A new film, called 16 Acres, takes the viewer back more than 10 years by documenting the politics associated with rebuilding the World Trade Center.

Just as ENR's 2012 The Year in Construction photography contest starts pulling in new entries, photographer Joseph A. Blum, a many-times winner and the shooter of two photo contest issue covers, sends word that he is invited to hang the opening show at a new college gallery on Oct. 17.

Grid Week 2012, and Digg.com founder, Kevin Rose interviewing Nest Thermostat founder, Matt Rogers. 

Takeaways from Architecture Record's 10 Years of Innovation conference.

Look for more adds to the company's expanding suite of cloud-based products under its Autodesk 360 strategy.

Some people remain passionately opposed to fracking, particularly in areas of Pennsylvania and New York, where celebrities, artists and ordinary citizens have banded together to condemn the practice.

The high court is examining whether timberlands destroyed by water released from a Corps of Engineers dam in Arkansas constitute a government "taking," which would require federal compensation.

Engineering News-Record wants to explore the future of construction and work, through the lens of science fiction. We are asking our readers who invent the future of the industry every day to help us build a collection of new, previously unpublished, short science fiction—or even simply ideas for science fiction—to gaze into the crystal ball of construction's future.

The U.S. Green Building Council has opened a fifth public comment period for the latest version of its green-building rating system, LEED.