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- An Embassy or an Embarrassment?
posted on July 12, 2007 01:34:56 pm
Few construction projects in Iraq today symbolize the financial waste and lack of accountability quite like the new U.S. Embassy under construction in Baghdad.... - Maturing Wind Power Hits a Rough Adolescence
posted on July 03, 2007 03:22:55 pm
Why is everyone banking on wind these days?... - Coming to America, to Build
posted on June 07, 2007 01:52:14 pm
The links immigration and construction are a simple matter of history.... - Whither the Wearable Computer?
posted on May 25, 2007 09:35:47 am
For 15 years there had been a steady drumbeat about the coming age of wearable computers.... - It's Back to School for Louisiana Levee Boards
posted on April 29, 2007 12:15:57 pm
This summer, students with precarious grade point averages won't be the only ones spending time in the classroom.... - It's Alive!
posted on March 20, 2007 03:10:40 pm
At a lab at the University of California, Davis, researchers have developed a new microbe that is capable of transforming vast volumes of sandy soil into more stable and strong material through natura... - From the Outer Reaches of the Internet, Construction Blogs
posted on March 01, 2007 02:52:16 pm
Even in our tireless labors to maintain a twenty-four-hour-a-day construction news juggernaut, we here at ENR.com are not able to cover every single interesting detail of today's industry.... - Culture Clash: Archaeology and Engineering in China
posted on February 16, 2007 09:19:51 am
Call it either the rush of a great discovery or the twitching headache of yet another delay to the project. When construction crews or surveyors unearth a site of archeological importance, it's still ... - Become an Engineer! See the World!
posted on January 30, 2007 02:26:08 pm
Future engineers: meet the world. It is a big, scary place full of diversity and possibility. Get used to the size of it, because if you want to make it in construction today, you're going to have to... - Uppers and Downers at the Dawn of 2007
posted on January 02, 2007 06:15:38 pm
As 2007 begins, it is only fitting that ENR.com feature some uplifting stories to combat that inevitable post-holiday funk. A tale of faster-than-expected construction on one project in Colorado shoul... - The Twilight Zone of Construction
posted on December 15, 2006 04:54:01 pm
There is a prevailing attitude in the construction industry that the regular media does not give their work decent coverage. They feel that the only time construction gets top billing in the national ... - Construction Web Video Games: Take Care Not to Drown the Dwarves
posted on December 04, 2006 01:41:16 pm
Video games have come a long way and are less stigmatized as shallow diversions for children and unwashed male nerds. Everyone seems to be picking them up. But what games are out there for the constru... - Got a Tough Engineering Question? Ask the Internet!
posted on November 17, 2006 05:16:56 pm
- Double Fantasy? Deflating U.S. Housing Bubble and the Boom in Dubai
posted on November 10, 2006 12:07:29 pm
While the fever dream of real estate wealth in the U.S. fades away, halfway around the globe, the nation of Dubai is trying to make its dream a reality.... - Revisiting Hanford
posted on October 25, 2006 04:09:06 pm
In an earlier blog entry, I mentioned that the Army Corps of Engineers in September released a new cost estimate of $12.2 billion for the construction of a vitrification plant at the Hanford Nuclear R... - When Politics Meets Engineering, Things Can Get Ugly
posted on October 06, 2006 03:27:42 pm
Engineering and politics may not mix well, but that doesn't mean they don't often collide. The debate over ethics in engineering takes on an entirely new dimension when politics enter the equation. In... - Good Ideas Always Sound Crazy at First
posted on September 29, 2006 10:51:07 am
If someone else had said it, it would have sounded like any cookie-cutter corporate consultant telling office workers to think outside the box. But when calls for "disruptive technologies" are coming ... - A Half-Lifetime of Hanford
posted on September 19, 2006 04:09:42 pm
I hope more progress is made at the Hanford site in the next decade than in the last. The Hanford nuclear facility in Washington State is one of the more infamous sites in the United States? atomic h... - From an Engineering Standpoint, 9/11 Conspiracy Theory Doesn't Add Up
posted on September 06, 2006 04:09:45 pm
Five years have past and it looks like misinformation and paranoid propaganda are still finding footholds in the American collective unconscious. Anyone reflecting on the events of September 11, 2001 ... - Overdue Diligence?
posted on August 31, 2006 04:09:47 pm
These days, no one's going to make the mistake of believing the letters BP also stand for best practices....