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- Will Hochtief Buy Flatiron?
posted on July 18, 2007 11:32:27 am
The word from a couple of different sources is that Germany's Hochtief AG, which owns Turner Corp., may be deepening its U.S. investment by negotiating to buy Flatiron Construction Corp.... - Two Outlandish June Pay Days for Foster Wheeler's CEO
posted on July 03, 2007 03:40:11 pm
If you are working behind a drafting table for $60,000 a year, you may want to turn your head away and not read this.... - Is Hillier the Next Big Sale? Plus More About AECOM and URS
posted on June 11, 2007 01:11:05 pm
The deals never seem to end. The managers of Hillier Architecture, the big Princeton, N.J.-based design practice, have decided to sell the company, sources have told ENR?s Debra Rubin. The company, w... - Don't Build The Mexico Border Wall
posted on June 07, 2007 01:57:31 pm
There?s only one reason not to build the 700-mile-long barrier that is an integral feature of the new immigration legislation being hammered out in the Senate.... - Forget the Skywalk, the Canyon has Grand Buildings
posted on May 24, 2007 10:32:08 am
What Susan wants, she usually gets. For weeks leading up to our trip to Arizona, my girlfriend Susan wanted to know why we couldn't go visit the Skywalk, the glass-bottomed walkway, while we stayed a... - URS Protects CEO Martin M. Koffel--and Convinces Him to Stay
posted on April 19, 2007 04:50:03 pm
I met Martin M. Koffel, the chairman and chief executive of URS Corp., briefly many years ago, at URS Corp.'s Manhattan offices, and I saw him on television once since then.... - Wipeouts and Cranes Down
posted on April 06, 2007 01:23:16 pm
Our video aggregator, Clip Syndicate, pulled in a story about cranes coming down on a big Texas Department of Transportation project in the San Antonio area near the airport early on the morning of Ap... - Wipeouts
posted on March 16, 2007 11:10:18 am
We have a colleague here at ENR who used to work for Guy F. Atkinson, the big contractor that keeled over suddenly in 1997. Cost him plenty. He's still not over it.... - Cranes, Bricks, Everything Falling Down on the Job
posted on February 23, 2007 03:27:11 pm
Look at this video of a fallen crawler crane with a reported 350-ft-long boom wrapped around a building belonging to a utility in Port Sheldon, Mich. Winds were blowing hard, reports Rick Raef, Willis... - As Reforms Are Made, Beware 'No-bid' Nonsense
posted on January 16, 2007 02:56:15 pm
No-bid contracts. All those fat federal contracts awarded to corporate executives who have their snouts buried deep in the feeding public works trough. Disgusting, right?... - What if the 800-lb Gorilla of Surety Bonds Cuts Back?
posted on January 02, 2007 02:37:17 am
Is there a locomotive pounding down the tracks and heading straight for you? When one company is writing $1 billion to $2 billion dollars or so of annual surety premiums, providing guarantees for as ... - Technophobe Young Architects and Chicken Parmesan
posted on November 28, 2006 04:17:25 pm
At a holiday party the other week I ended up talking to my girlfriend's sister's father-in-law, a retired architect, a lanky man with waves of distinguished white hair and black-framed glasses. I was ... - Alienated Conservatives and ABC
posted on November 17, 2006 01:27:01 pm
Construction contractors are deeply conservative and Republican and in 2000 members of the Associated Builders & Contractors felt like they had helped put George W. Bush in the White House. At ABC's n... - One Death Isn't News To Me
posted on November 03, 2006 03:31:24 pm
Don't get yourself killed without company if you want me to write about you on ENR.com. If you are taking a 17-story plunge on your own, as a 25-year-old immigrant from Ecuador did in New York City t... - PBSJ's Politics: What the Accusations Mean to Me
posted on October 04, 2006 01:12:17 pm
If you see something unsafe and verging on collapse, aren't you obligated by your ties to society to try to stop it? Here's what I'm getting at. A few days ago I asked PSBJ Corp., the big Florida-ba... - Engineering Sociopath and Simplified Ethics
posted on October 04, 2006 01:12:07 pm
I love the American Society of Civil Engineers' journals, especially the ones concerned with management and leadership. Although some of the articles are limited academic explorations, some contain fr... - Foremen Who Don't Know How to Manage
posted on October 04, 2006 01:12:03 pm
I?ll get to the point. Many contractor foremen don?t know squat about how to manage or work with people....