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ENR News Director Andrew G. Wright and O Empreiteiro Managing Editor Augusto Diniz examine Brazil’s approach to big infrastructure projects. 

At first glance, an organization devoted to improving the environmental performance of laboratories might seem an unlikely hero to strike the next big blow to drive building information modeling into facility operations and maintenance, but then again, owners of high-tech labs have real skin in the game.

Metro, Mulholland Bridge and margaritas

The spread of the West Nile Virus poses a growing risk for the construction industry. The pattern of increasing incidence seems to go hand-in-hand with this year's sustained hot weather in the heartland and the California central valley.

A new Android app brings real-time economic data to anyone's fingertips.

An Incontinent Bridge, An Enduring LA Untruth, and Other Fun Things

I have decided that in these difficult times, we could use a shared, construction diary, of sorts. So, I am unofficially launching one with this blog post. We invite all viewers and readers to send us their tales about construction. We are seeking 100-150-word submissions. They can be about anything related to design and construction, anywhere in the world (even in outer space). They can be about people, things, projects, travels, meetings, dinners, coincidences, synchronicity, work versus life and school days. They can be about the past and the present.  

      Few people noticed it, but July 16, 2012 may turn out to be a symbolically significant day in the history of engineering and green construction. That day had been set as a deadline for submissions of scholarly papers by the editors of the Journal of Legal Affairs and

With the ink hardly dry on MAP-21,  ARTBA and others in construction industry are gearing up to push for increased funding for surface transportation. Possible broad-based tax and spending bills could be legislative vehicles.

Data centers are the gas (and water) guzzlers of buildings. That might change, thanks to a new, energy-efficient approach to cooling that has widespread implications for chilling any type of building.