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The July 20 th deadline is approaching rapidly for ENR Southwest’s Best Projects 2012 competition, so be sure to start your entry now to allow enough time to gather the info and complete the form. There’s no fee to enter, and it definitely pays off to invest the time in submitting, especially in a year

This year's ranking will appear in the September issue of ENR Southwest, and an early preview backs up with hard numbers what many of us already knew – it was another tough year for subcontractors.

ENR Southwest continues its recognition of outstanding regional companies with the profile of this year’s selection of General Contractor of the Year, coming up in our July 16 print edition. This award coincides with the annual Top General Contractors Ranking, in which firms are ranked based on their annual revenue.

The Best Projects 2012 Awards competition is now open and accepting entries. Visit ENR.com and any of the regional sections to submit your entry using our new—and much more user-friendly—system.

This year’s Top General Contractors survey for the Southwest is closed, and we are analyzing the results now. The rankings and analysis is set to publish in ENR Southwest’s July 16 issue. However, I wanted to give readers of this blog an early sneak peek at the results. The news is mixed.

During a renovation of the 15-story Manzanita Hall dormitory on Arizona State University’s Tempe campus, crews stopped in their tracks after stumbling upon a trespasser. While demoing the exterior skin of the 45-year-old building earlier this week, workers found a large hawk, nesting with her three eggs. The nest was

It’s Canstruction  week in Phoenix, so be sure to make a trip down to the Phoenix Convention Center by April 7th to view the elaborate sculptures put together by Arizona design and construction teams. I had the honor of judging the competition again this year, along with four other construction industry and media

Coming soon in ENR Southwest’s May issue is the annual Top Design Firms ranking. Along with the charts showing the largest firms by revenue, we also select our Design Firm of the Year. That firm is: SmithGroupJJR!

ENR Southwest will produce its annual ranking of the Top Design Firms working in Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico in the May issue. As a preview, here is a list of the 70 firms that submitted surveys that will appear in the ranking. The firms are in alphabetical order here, but when the list is published in May, you will be

While the Southwest region is showing encouraging signs of recovery from the recession, and many companies have started to increase staffing, it’s a poignant reminder that things are still not back to normal when a contractor with a major Arizona presence decides to withdraw from the region. That’s exactly what