In fall 2020, a random truck collision caused a raging fire on the Brent Spence Bridge, closing the critical crossing. Hear how the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, aided by Michael Baker International, managed to reopen the bridge in 42 days.

ENR California Editor Erica Berardi joins Senior Editor Aileen Cho to chat with Eric Foster about a venerable California company’s expansion to the East Coast.

ENR editors Aileen Cho and Jeff Yoders talk to the ENR equivalent of a Grammy Award-winning rock star. AOE winner John Hillman stars in “Where are they Now?” (and yes, he plays drums).

A multiple-degree-holding 30-something, the outgoing CEO of Bridges to Prosperity reminisces about globetrotting adventures and chats about new entrepreneurial challenges

Bob Clark has grown Clayco from a small St. Louis design-builder more than 30 years ago into an annual high performer on the ENR Top 400. In this ENR Exec Talk, he talks with Jeff Yoders and Aileen Cho about his Ride the Wave tour where he’s visiting all of Clayco’s job sites, how he founded the company on the premise of changing adversarial and antiquated processes, a bad call from OSHA on encouraging employees to get vaccinated and how far the industry still has to go to deliver the employee diversity results it needs.

CannonDesign’s vice president and director of BIM and VDC programs tells us about levels of development, modular construction, how architects and contractors are creating more model-friendly contract documents that allow better collaboration in the design and construction process, the changing process of project delivery and how redesigning that process, itself, has become a challenge, and even a little about working remotely during the pandemic. 

The director of the Nevada Department of Transportation talks about new highway and public works projects, navigating the maze of federal transportation spending, new ways to look at investment in infrastructure, MAP-21 and even a little about STEM and her inventive Twitter handle.