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Treat others the way you want to be treated. It's an ancient truth, which every generation learns as if it were new. We neglect it at the peril of our costs, our schedules and our humanity.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants to put climate-change science on trial and is calling on the nation’s chief environmental steward, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, to do the job. Now, this is an idea whose time has come!
Was the industry any safer last year? Depends on who you talk to. New data ENR obtained today from the U.S. Dept. of Labor confirms that last year was not just one of the worst years for crane accidents in recent history, it was the worst year by far, while overall construction fatalities are on a downward trend.
I'll give the New York Times credit for a good story on what the Siberian dam and hydro station disaster says about the state of the Russian built environment. Also, the Times has a good photo from Reuters that is better than ones from the Associated Press that appear on ENR.com. Some more photos are in this blog
Sustainability includes common-sense principles that are universal, be they the health of your own self -- or of your airport, as officials found out at a seminal Green Airports conference in Chicago.
Picking up where the Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy project left off, a new plan to harness tidal energy from New York City’s rivers has been proposed by a New York architecture firm.
How's this for stimulus? The U.S. government may be close to suspending the insanely popular, $1-billion "Cash for Clunkers" because it has already run out of money after only a few days of existence, various news outlets are reporting. The program was intended to run through Nov. 1. "Obviously the program has been an...
In June, I wrote about an unstable crane atop the Blue Cross-Blue Shield building in Chicago. The incident came right on the heels of 2008, the worst year of crane accidents in U.S. history.
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