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05/06/13	Biologist, Copter Inspired a Big Apple Builder Did Connie Crawford, the first-ever female chief engineer at the New York City Transit Authority, ever experience blatant sexism? After all, since 1981, she has been a civil engineer who frequently used to be the only woman in a room of hundreds.
05/06/13	MEP Jessica Vogel Applies Her Electrical Engineering Skills to Energy Work By Esther D’Amico in Somerset County, N.J. A young engineer remains open to change in a fluctuating industry.
05/03/13	Construction April Unemployment Rate Falls, But 6,000 Jobs Lost By Tom Ichniowski Residential sector's gain of 8,500 jobs failed to offset losses in nonresidential, heavy-civil segments.
05/02/13	Industry Women Weigh In on the New Normal By Janice Tuchman and Staff Ten women editors from Engineering News-Record and Architectural Record spent a day in the life of 10 women in the industry to find out what they think about their careers, about breaking stereotypes and about how to get ahead.
05/01/13	UT Professor is Advancing the Industry Through Research and Teaching By Janice Tuchman in Austin Outstanding early career research professor at the University of Texas is working toward advances in automation, safety and work zone efficiency
05/01/13	Ewa Bauer: A Journey From Oppression to The Golden Gate Bridge By Erin Joyce in San Francisco Devotion to an iconic bridge and public transportation arose from an appreciation of the opportunities in the U.S.A.
05/01/13	An Emerging Architect Delivers Art on a Budget By Laura Mirviss Bajoria founded her own architecture firm at the height of the recession—a daring move that has paid off.
05/01/13	Industry Veteran Kimberly Spain Now Finds Herself Mentoring Others By Pam Hunter The Haskell assistant superintendent considers herself a 'life-long learner.'
05/01/13	Persistence Pays Off for Texas Contractor Elizabeth Ponce By Louise Poirier As part of ENR's look at women in construction feature, we look at the story of Elizabeth Ponce's journey from construction secretary to business owner.
05/01/13	Sparks Fly When This Ironworker Hits the Jobsite By Debra K. Rubin in Detroit Welder Katrina Kudzia didn’t plan to join the “family” trade in the late 1990s, but she’s built a solid career on craft skill and no nonsense.
05/01/13	Structural Engineer Has A Dream to Design a 100-Story Building By Nadine M. Post Jan Vacca is respected for her focus on problem-solving and collaboration; her gender does not come into play.
05/01/13	Transportation Expert Manages With Tenacity By Carolina Worrell in Boston Transportation expert heads up Boston's $1.9-billion GLX job.
05/01/13	Biologist, Copter Inspired a ‘Big Apple’ Builder By Aileen Cho Unfazed by a male-dominated industry, Crawford became New York City’s first female chief transportation engineer
04/24/13	Union Leaders Reshaping Their Message to Politicians, Industry By Bruce Buckley Building Trades gather in Washington, D.C. for annual legislative conference.
04/16/13	Union Tradeswomen Are Urged to 'Lean In' at Big Gathering By JT Long in Sacramento ?Arecord 650 union tradeswomen attending the annual "Women Building California and the Nation" conference earlier this month were urged to take a cue from top Facebook executive Sheryl Sandburg and "lean in" to become leaders at jobsites, union halls and in their communities.
04/05/13	Construction Gains 18,000 Jobs in March, Jobless Rate Continues Down By Tom Ichniowski Industry unemployment rate dipped to 14.7% from February's 15.7% and also was better than March 2012's 17.2%.
03/08/13	Construction Adds 48,000 Jobs in February, Jobless Rate Dips By Tom Ichniowski Increase in jobs is largest monthly gain in several years and affected all industry sectors.
02/01/13	Construction Adds 28,000 Jobs in January, But Jobless Rate Rises By Tom Ichniowski Except for nonresidential building, all construction sectors gained jobs last month. Specialty trade contractors led the way, picking up 26,000 positions.
01/30/13	Texas A&M University Envisions 25,000 Engineering Students by 2025 By Louise Poirier The university's engineering school says enrollment is already soaring, with 10,000 applications received for 1,600 spots last year.
01/04/13	Construction Gains 30,000 Jobs in December, But Unemployment Rate Is Up By Tom Ichniowski Job gains came in almost all industry sectors, paced by specialty trade contractors. But jobless rate climbed to 13.5%, from November's 12.2%, as construction's winter slowdown began.
12/07/12	Construction Nov. Unemployment Rate Rises, Industry Loses 20,000 Jobs By Tom Ichniowski Nearly all construction sectors shed jobs last month, including 11,100 positions in buildings segment and 3,800 in heavy-civil category.
12/05/12	Will Cheap Labor in India Last Forever? By Tudor Van Hampton in Gurgaon, India A global symbol of offshoring, India benefits from the massive availability of its workers, including throngs of tradesmen on the construction site.
11/28/12	Owners Push Tool to Rate Contractors on Workforce Quality By Debra K. Rubin in Orlando Construction Users Round Table sees workforce investment measure as a component, like safety, in contract award.
11/26/12	Will Proposed Anti-Bullying Laws Bring a Wave of Lawsuits? By Erin Richey, with Richard Korman and Debra K. Rubin A special investigation of sexual harassment and bullying in the construction industry.
11/26/12	What Employers Do to Fend Off Abuse Lawsuits By Richard Korman and Erin Richey Some believe an overhaul of corporate values is needed more than bulletproof policies and procedures.
11/02/12	Construction Crews Converge for Hurricane Repairs, Restoration By Debra K. Rubin in Millburn, N.J. and Gary J. Tulacz Logistical finesse and sheer determination bring in thousands of workers needed for Hurricane Sandy's aftermath.
11/02/12	Construction Oct. Jobless Rate Dips, as Industry Adds 17,000 Jobs By Tom Ichniowski No impact yet of post-Sandy rebuilding, but AGC officials don't expect reconstruction jobs to outweigh effect of other projects cancelled or delayed by the storm.
10/17/12	Professional Engineers' License Debate Grows in Intensity By Debra K. Rubin, with Janice L. Tuchman Engineering groups, academics and firm leaders ramp up campaigns for and against more education for professional licensing.
10/17/12	Engineering Academies' First High-School Grads By Priyanka Padode Private tech-focused programs prepare 500 students for college and non-academic careers.
10/17/12	Plug-In Car Infrastructure Gives Training a Big Charge By Tony Illia Green trend boosts high-tech skills of electrical workers and contractors.
10/17/12	Washington Subcontractor Leads State Push on STEM By Tim Newcomb Dean Allen, CEO of Seattle-based contractor McKinstry, is not OK with too many kids in the state giving up on the study of science, technology, engineering and math.
10/17/12	Tennesee Geotechnical Engineer Reclaims More than Riverbanks By Debra K. Rubin Engineer Barry Thacker is on a one-man education crusade in Appalachia.
10/05/12	Construction Sept. Unemployment Rate Up, Though Industry Adds Jobs By Tom Ichniowski Industry's unemployment rate climbs to 11.9%, from August's 11.3%, despite gaining 5,000 jobs. The rate improved from September 2011's 13.3%.
10/03/12	Industry Struggles To Find Qualified Crane Workers By Tudor Van Hampton in Lexington It took Link-Belt months to find workers for its Kentucky factory.
09/18/12	Internship is Key to Landing a Job in Tough Market for CM Grad By Priyanka Padode Connections forged over two summers helped secure role at Detroit building contractor.
09/11/12	New Advice from Feds on Hiring Those with Arrest Records By Erin Richey Anti-bias agency EEOC expands guidance on how criminal records and discrimination complaints factor in employment decisions.
09/07/12	Construction Aug. Jobless Rate Falls, But Industry Adds Just 1,000 Jobs By Tom Ichniowski Industry officials say one factor behind drop in jobless rate is exit of many workers from the construction sector.
08/28/12	Construction Men Find Refuge in Sexual Harassment Laws By Story and interactive graphic by Erin Richey Between 20% and 25% of complaints brought against construction companies over the past 10 years by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission involves a harassment claim by a man, according to data provided to ENR.
08/22/12	After April Uprising, Jirau Dam Back on Track By Andrew G. Wright In the past, labor camps of Brazilian mega-projects at remote sites were rough-and-tumble affairs, marked by drunkenness, frequent fistfights and prostitution.
08/22/12	Brazilian Contractor Builds Training Center, Trade School By Andrew G. Wright Faced with a mega-project labor shortage, Odebrecht went to work.
08/22/12	Caterpillar's Joliet Plant Kept Moving During Strike By Tudor Van Hampton Nearly 800 machinists narrowly reached a deal to extend their contract.
07/31/12	Judges Overturn Same-Sex Harass Verdict Against Boh Bros. By Erin Richey A Louisiana federal appeals court reversed last year's ruling against Boh Bros. regarding alleged sexual harassment of an ironworker by a superintendent.
07/23/12	New Industry Survey Says to Get Ready for Work Force Shortages By Harvey M. Bernstein More than 70% of general contractors expect workforce shortages in design and construction by 2014.
07/06/12	Construction June Jobless Rate Down, as Industry Adds 2,000 Jobs. By Tom Ichniowski Unemployment rate dips to 12.8% in June, from 14.2% in May and 15.6% in June 2011. Industry's job gains came in specialty trade contractors sector.
06/11/12	Industry Groups Team Up to Fight Jobsite Drug and Alcohol Use By Pam Hunter Plans for Expansion are in the Works
06/04/12	Project Labor Agreements Are at Issue Again in California By Nicholas Zeman San Diego officials have warned that a measure to ban project labor agreements could have consequences for the city.
06/04/12	Union Tradeswomen Show Solidarity By Robert Carlsen in Sacramento Union building trades women face challenges from recession and from rising anti-union sentiment.
06/01/12	Construction Sheds 28,000 Jobs in May, But Jobless Rate Dips By Tom Ichniowski Specialty trade contractors, heavy-civil sector post job losses in May; nonresidential buildings segment shows modest gain.
05/21/12	Study Says Women Need More Sponsors in Construction By Janice L. Tuchman A recent study, presented at the Groundbreaking Women in Construction conference, held in New York City May 7, shows that women could benefit from the sponsorship for higher positions beyond mentorship.
05/07/12	Highway Work Zone Safety Campaign Continues By Tom Ichniowski Industry-government efforts cited as factors behind decline in highway construction site fatalities.
05/04/12	Construction April Jobless Rate Falls, Though 2,000 Jobs Lost By Tom Ichniowski Jobs shed in buildings and nonresidential specialty trades sectors outweighed gains in heavy-civil and residential specialty trades segments.
05/02/12	Florida Engineering Students are World Champions of Robotics By Scott Judy Two Florida high-school teams won the world championships of robotics engineering at an international competition held April 25-28 in St. Louis, Mo.
04/06/12	Construction March Jobless Rate Edges Up By Tom Ichniowski Rate rose to 17.2% last month, from February's 17.1%, but was an improvement over March 2011 level of 20%. Job losses in buildings construction sector more than offset gains in heavy-civil.
03/26/12	Girls Get Up-Close Career View At Boston Area School Project By Johanna Knapschaefer in Dedham Women mentors share their engineering skill and professional insight with 150 middle and high school students.Women mentors share their engineering skill and professional insight with 150 middle and high school students.
03/09/12	Construction Jobless Rate Dips in Feb., But Industry Sheds Jobs By Tom Ichniowski BLS report for February has mixed results for construction: unemployment rate down compared with January and year-earlier levels, but 13,000 jobs lost.
02/29/12	Los Alamos Federal Nuclear Research Facility Faces Layoffs, Construction Cuts By Tony Illia New Mexico site will postpone work on planned multi-billion-dollar plutonium research facility
02/03/12	Construction's January Jobless Rate Up, But Industry Gains 21,000 Jobs By Tom Ichniowski Industry's 17.7% rate in January worsened from December's 16%, but was much improved from January 2011's 22.5%.
01/30/12	?Georgia's 'Go Build' Program Aims To Boost Skilled Trades By Scott Judy Mike Rowe, star of the Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs, offered his support of the Georgia program in the governor’s announcement, and will be featured in related advertising.
01/09/12	Construction December Jobless Rate Rises, Despite Gain of 17,000 Jobs By Tom Ichniowski Nonresidential specialty trades added 20,200 jobs last month, but most other construction sectors posted declines.
12/02/11	Construction's November Unemployment Rate Falls , But Industry Lost 12,000 Jobs By Tom Ichniowski Heavy-civil sector shed 7,000 jobs and buildings construction lost 4,200.
11/04/11	Construction's Jobless Rate Goes Up in October By Tom Ichniowski Industry lost 20,000 jobs last month, after gaining 27,000 in September, Bureau of Labor Statistics reports
10/17/11	Social Media Reshape Job Hunting, Recruitment at Smith Group, CH2M Hill By Richard Korman Employees are mingling and showing themselves off to potential employers, and employers are looking to cut the time needed to reduce long lists of job candidates.
10/07/11	Construction Unemployment Rate Down in Sept. By Tom Ichniowski Industry officials warn that the improvement may not be sustained if federal infrastructure funds are cut further and the economy doesn't strengthen.
09/02/11	Construction August Jobless Rate Dips, But Job Losses Continue By Tom Ichniowski Though the unemployment rate was down, the industry still lost 5,000 jobs in August.
08/15/11	Jefferson County, Ala., Commissioners in Last-Ditch Renegotiations Over Muni Debt By Candy McCampbell Two commissioners enter discussions creditors with goal to renegotiate reduction in $3.2-million sewer bond valuation before Sept. 16 deadline could trigger a Chapter 9 bankruptcy filing.
07/18/11	A Generation of Iranians Displaced by Revolution Put Their Math and Science Savvy to Work By Aileen Cho in Denver Memories of their homeland linger, and when they return for a visit, the locals notice the sparkle in their eyes.
07/18/11	An Ecuadorian Immigrant and AGC Iowa Create a Multicultural Curriculum for Jobsite Communication By Tony Illia South American specialist helps Iowan construction workers thrive on bilingual terms.
07/18/11	Chinese-Americans Find Themselves Bridging the Gap Between the U.S. and China By Aileen Cho and Andrea Ding-Kemp Endi Zhai persuaded top-level transportation officials, mayors, city councils, and some 200 engineers and contractors from several countries to attend the International Chinese Transportation Professionals Association conference in Los Angeles in May.
07/18/11	How a Support Group for Gays in Aviation Took Flight By Aileen Cho Evan Futterman has worked in the aviation planning business for 32 years and has a goal to help other lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people succeed while not having to lie about their identities.
07/18/11	Korean-Americans Build Cultural Inroads in U.S. Construction By Aileen Cho Korea, like China, is a rapidly developing Asian country where cultural differences may pose more of a challenge to doing business in the U.S. than for its European peers.
07/18/11	Minorities Lament their Low Numbers in Engineering and Construction By Debra K. Rubin The construction industry's American Dream is not just monochromatic, and although there have been gains and outreach, inclusion, respect and success are still coveted.
07/18/11	Where a New Inclusiveness Is Changing the Face of the Construction Industry By Aileen Cho Some firms do as little as the law will allow, but other make diversity a core company value.
07/13/11	Korean-Americans Build Cultural Inroads in U.S. Construction By Aileen Cho Cultural differences between Koreans and Americans may pose more of a challenge to doing business in the U.S. than for its European peers.
07/08/11	Construction June Unemployment Rate Improves to 15.6% By Tom Ichniowski But the industry also lost 9,000 jobs in June, with most construction sectors posting declines.
06/22/11	NLRB Proposes Changes to Speed Unionization Elections By Tom Ichniowski Pro-union senators endorse proposal, but industry groups and congressional Republicans criticize it.
06/16/11	NYC Unions Agree to 20% Wage Cut On Manhattan Residential Project By Carolina Worrell Key unions in New York City, including laborers and structural trades, have agreed to a 20% wage cut for work on Gotham West, a residential development on Manhattan’s West Side.
06/08/11	Architects, Students Compete in Iron Designer Challenge By Laura Mirviss Professional and prospective architects and engineers will live life in the fast lane as they compete in the second annual Iron Designer Challenge in New York on Thursday, June 9. Patterned after the cooking show Iron Chef, eight teams consisting of three high school students and four professionals will go head to head as they build life-size and freestanding “Portals”—structures that mediate two spaces—in less than three hours.
06/03/11	Construction Jobless Rate Falls in May, to 16.3% By Tom Ichniowski Construction added only 2,000 jobs last month with nonresidential specialty trade firms leading the way.
06/01/11	Don’t Blame The Workers By Bruce Buckley with reporting by Jonathan Barnes Craig DeFinis enjoys watching a craftsperson lose 15 minutes of work time about as much as he likes discovering that he just left his wallet in the back seat of a taxi. As the owner of Pittsburgh plumbing and HVAC contractor DeFinis Mechanical Contractors, he grants his union plumbers a quarter-hour morning break, even though his contract doesn’t require it, and hopes the workers don’t stretch it the way the half-hour lunch break sometimes goes to 45 minutes. Because each worker costs about $60 an hour in wages and benefits, extra minutes add up over the long run. “Multiply that by eight guys, five days a week, for six months—that’s a lot of money,” he says.
05/23/11	With Contract Dispute Settled, Corps Breaks Ground on Ft. Benning Hospital After lengthy delays from bid protests and legal action, the Army Corps of Engineers' Savannah District held a ceremonial groundbreaking last month for the $333-million Martin Army Community Hospital at Fort Benning, Ga. Turner Construction Co., Atlanta, will lead the design-build contract for construction of the 745,000-sq-ft facility. The Corps first awarded Turner the contract in 2009.Shortly thereafter, Ellerbe Becket, Turner's design partner, was acquired by AECOM. Competing bidders cited that fact as a conflict of interest because another AECOM entity, HSMM, had been previously contracted to work on the project. The U.S. Government Accountability Office ultimately recommended that Turner's contract be terminated. Turner appealed, and a U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge ordered the contract be reinstated. The project is now targeting a January 2014 completion.
05/18/11	Georgia Expands E-Verify Rules By Scott Judy Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal (R) signed legislation on May 13 that expands state requirements to use the federal E-Verify system to check the immigration status of employees. It also closes a loophole for project worker identification and sets severe penalties for violations.
05/11/11	Construction Unemployment Drops to Less Than 18% in April Construction's jobless rate improved in April, declining to 17.8% from 20% in March, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on May 6. Last month's figure also was markedly better than the April 2010 level of 21.8%, but it remains the worst among major U.S. industries. BLS says construction gained 5,000 jobs in April, according to preliminary numbers. However, BLS says total industry employment “has shown little net movement since early 2010, after having fallen sharply during the prior three years.” By sector, jobs in heavy and civil construction rose by 12,700 in April, more than offsetting losses in buildings and specialty-trade categories. Employment rose by 5,600 in architectural and engineering services, which BLS separates from construction. The overall U.S. jobless rate rose to 9% in April from 8.8% a month earlier. Rates for construction and other industries are not adjusted for seasonal variations.
05/11/11	Missouri DOT To Trim 1,200 Staff To Offset Revenue Shortfalls Missouri's transportation department unveiled plans on May 5 for dramatic cost cutting measures that will trim 1,200 staff positions, or 19% of its workforce. The department also will close 135 facilities and sell 740 pieces of equipment. The agency's five-year, $1.2-billion budget is being halved to $600 million due to severe revenue shortfalls. The reductions will create an estimated $512-million onetime savings as well as $117 million in long-term annual savings. The proposed program is “a matter of survival,” says state transportation director Kevin Keith. The cuts will scale back department facilities by 40% and reduce its equipment fleet by 12.6%.
05/11/11	Will Painters Union Set Trend In 2011 New York Bargaining? By Bruce Buckley Union painters in New York City finalized a collective bargaining agreement on May 3 that makes several wage, benefit and work-rule concessions to employers, a result contractor groups hope will set a pattern for other city pacts now being negotiated. The Association of Master Painters of New York Inc., District Council No. 9 of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, and AFL-CIO ratified the new contract after 10 weeks of bargaining.
05/06/11	Construction Jobless Rate Dips in April By Tom Ichniowski Construction's jobless rate declines to 17.8% in April, but still is the highest among U.S. industries.

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