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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.

Union workers are in financial trouble, which means union locals could get into financial trouble.

John S. Barry is dead at 84. He Leaves behind him the legacy of WD-40, one of the catchiest names in household solvent industry history.

Once in awhile I get to do what the people in the construction industry get to do every day. I get to build something....And then all the chickens come home to roost….

Inspired by Brian Brenner's personal Top 10 bridge list, I looked back at the bridge projects I most enjoyed covering in my career at ENR.

An acquaintance of mine turns got a close-up look at the site of the deadly NY crane collapse in 2008.

It's not everyday you see the hulking steel frames of seven giant mining trucks lined up outside a manufacturing plant, like sleeping dinosaurs. But in the this recession, anything goes. A dormant order of about $24 million in these beastly machines is exactly what I saw yesterday at Liebherr's domestic

Global climate change is real. It's caused by humans, it's happening in the U.S. and it’s happening now. Amazingly, despite decades of growing evidence and agreement by ever-greater numbers of climate scientists, there are still people who deny that.

Arup has won the MacRobert Award, one of the world’s richest prizes for engineering innovation, which carries with it a £50,000 prize, a solid-gold medal—and a ceremony presided over by royalty, the Duke of Edinburgh, husband of the queen.

Twitter is definitely a funny name for a social media Website. But I like the short format (a single post, or “tweet,” is limited to 140 characters), and I’m interested in how it can help ENR communicate with the industry.