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At ENR, we're used to getting nastygrams from folks in the construction industry, especially when a reader finds something questionably unsafe in a photo that we ran.

How the company's trademark brand came to be is a legend in itself, but it shares a common link to another industry legend, Frank Lloyd Wright.

ARRA transportation dollars under contract continue to increase, according to the latest update from a House committee.

The Dept. of Energy has committed 99% of its more than $30 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds that are designated for grants and contracts, a senior DOE official says.

The U.S. Dept. of Transportation has announced it is seeking proposals for a $600-million second round of "TIGER" grants for major projects. Also in the mix is an additional $40 million in Housing and Urban Development Dept. community-planning grants.

Not many of us made it this year to Bauma, the triennial trade show that is thought to be the largest construction event (also thought to be the largest trade show...period). But the lack of flights in and out of Munich didn't leave us stranded in terms of news.

Stopgap measure--the 13th since September 2007--will keep airport construction grants and other Federal Aviation Administration programs going through July 3.

Former ENR newsmakers take new forks in the road of transportation careers.

House Minority leader John Boehner has said that Congress should hold off on passing a Water Resources Development Act in 2010.  His statement follows House Republicans' call for a moratorium on earmarked projects. WRDA bills have contained authorizations for large numbers of Corps of Engineers projects. 

The two-year-old U.S. Embassy building systems in Port-au-Prince came through Jan. 12’s 7.0 earthquake with flying colors for a lot of good, specific reasons. Aside from the obviously soundness of the building's structural design and construction, the survivability of systems was insured by a host of small measures.