http://www.enr.com/people/blogs/tuchman/default.aspJanice L. Tuchman is ENR's award-winning editor-in-chief. She joined the magazine in 1976.enThe McGraw-Hill Companiesbrett_lyon@mcgraw-hill.comWed, 16 May 2007 14:47:03 GMTThu, 12 Jul 2007 18:21:08 GMThttp://www.enr.com/people/blogs/imgs/jan_tuchman-def.jpghttp://www.enr.com/people/blogs/tuchman/default.asphttp://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/tuchman/070711.aspWhat may be all in a day's work to one industry professional can be pretty dramatic to others-and pretty fascinating to ENR's journalists.{88e9213b-99cb-ac24-f139-71582ea839bb}Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:21:08 GMThttp://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/tuchman/070620.aspThis issue of ENR is something a little different. It combines the Top 500 Design Firms Sourcebook and a cover story about a top firm on the move with weekly news and departments located in the back. This is the format we will be using for our sourcebook series this year.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.com{588b1252-8ffb-2ee3-98ca-54abc64dbf97}Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:25:03 GMThttp://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/tuchman/070516.aspThe duty of licensed professionals to stay on top of their game for the benefit of clients is the underlining principle behind state licensing boards' requirements that architects and engineers obtain a certain number of continuing education units (CEUs) per year in order to maintain their licenses.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{dc47cc9a-5e8-962f-55c-78e64295342}Wed, 16 May 2007 14:46:59 GMThttp://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/tuchman/070509.aspRecognition from B2B journalism organizations is always rewarding, but recognition from a journalism organization that specializes in the construction industry is particularly meaningful to us.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{31ae318c-458c-e868-e361-f440a7bb2ee0}Wed, 09 May 2007 15:31:36 GMThttp://www.enr.com/people/blogs/tuchman/070328.aspOne of the best parts of my job is telling one of ENR's newsmakers that he or she is "the one" -- the Award of Excellence winner. I also warn them that there is a lot of work ahead as an ENR editor extracts their life story.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{2224e146-f0a0-6ed1-d17c-5b46d4b3cb77}Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:53:07 GMThttp://www.enr.com/people/blogs/tuchman/070219.aspA new icon appears in Engineering News-Record this week, and it will appear regularly throughout the year. It will call your attention to a series of stories we will be writing about construction's work-force crisis and related issues such as engineering education and craft training.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{48da8e06-c896-67bb-9f86-4955d50f3cd9}Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:15:50 GMThttp://www.enr.com/people/blogs/tuchman/070207.aspWhether cosmic coincidence or just good planning, Engineering News-Record's special theme issue on sustainable construction goes to press just as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report citing, with 90% certainty, human use of fossil fuels as the main cause of climate change.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{17ee323c-bdb1-2a98-3bef-da9e6c04f70c}Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:07:04 GMThttp://www.enr.com/people/blogs/tuchman/070124.aspEvery industry has its Academy Awards—the prize that everybody really wants to win. In entertainment, the Golden Globes are cool but not the same as winning an Emmy. In B-to-B publishing, the coveted prize is a Jesse H. Neal Award from American Business Media, and Engineering News-Record and its sisters at McGraw-Hill Construction Media recently were named finalists in six categories. We now wait in suspense until the winners are revealed March 22.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{42a0295a-2c0-257a-deb6-3ebfea1cd44}Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:17:28 GMThttp://www.enr.com/people/blogs/tuchman/070110.aspThis will be a year of transformation for Engineering News-Record. We are moving evermore into the digital world—an environment that is both more sustainable and provides a faster means of communicating with our readership.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{19b9eab3-4431-a524-14d-df944a72e95e}Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:11:40 GMThttp://www.enr.com/people/blogs/tuchman/061220.aspTo make sure we get new eyes and different artistic sensibilities evaluating photo contest entries, ENR rotates new judges onto the panel every year. I had not participated since the first contest in 2002, and what a difference a few years make. We’ve taken giant steps forward in the technology of gathering, storing and sorting photos.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{5839976-ae6a-61e7-d82d-8fd243edc3a}Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:42:39 GMThttp://www.enr.com/people/blogs/tuchman/061206.aspenr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{e8bf9412-c536-a27e-179-af575e39ae8}Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:49:06 GMThttp://www.enr.com/people/blogs/tuchman/061016.aspDid you know one of your photos could be on the cover of ENR? The winner of the annual photo contest will be featured on the Dec. 25 cover, and all the top submissions will be featured in that issue and in a slide show presentation on ENR.com.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{31b4d915-8531-29df-6526-aacb7cd78f9b}Wed, 11 Oct 2006 21:30:22 GMThttp://www.enr.com/people/blogs/tuchman/060919.aspI've heard a lot of people at industry events complaining about the work force crisis in construction. We are desperate for professionals and desperate for craft workers. Now is the time to do something about it. Please join the editors of ENR as we brainstorm with Emily Stover DeRocco, the assistant secretary of labor for employment and training, and leaders from industry and academia at a think tank at the Sheraton Crystal City in Virginia on Sept. 25 and 26.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{c61e85db-57bd-5dc7-1085-ec641ae610f6}Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:00:51 GMThttp://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/tuchman/060417.aspThe April 26, 1906, issue of Engineering News carried the headline “The San Francisco Disaster: Earthquake and Fire Ruin in the Bay Counties of California.” The editors of the magazine that became ENR when it merged with Engineering Record in 1913 postponed the articles they had planned for publication that week and used the space for coverage of this major disaster—just as we do when disaster strikes today.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{29a6ca14-d399-7254-c9cb-eeb63d02ae54}Mon, 17 Apr 2006 20:16:23 GMThttp://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/tuchman/060410.aspEarthmoving isn’t the most glamorous job in the industry, but Dwayne McAninch, the 69-year-old chairman and CEO of specialty contractor McAninch Corp., does it with style and grace. His unassuming nature makes him an unlikely person to transform the field from a seat-of-the-pants to a click-of-the-mouse business. But speaking with colleagues near his company’s headquarters in West Des Moines, Iowa, and spending time at his home in nearby Norwalk, makes it clear why ENR’s editors selected him to receive the magazine’s 41st Award of Excellence.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{e4b7b914-3b98-d09f-6ad1-5dfbf0ab5d6e}Mon, 10 Apr 2006 20:19:54 GMThttp://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/tuchman/051226.aspThere was a subtle change in the rules of ENR's fourth annual photo contest. The entry form asked for "dynamic, well-composed, dramatic and aesthetically pleasing pictures of people working safely, projects and structures, equipment and materials." We added the words "working safely" after we got dozens of letters last year from readers who told us that they do not find photos that show unsafe work practices to be aesthetically pleasing (ENR 1/31 p. 4).enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{8442a72-7b6a-84be-bd74-1b5af0021521}Mon, 26 Dec 2005 21:23:14 GMThttp://enr.com/people/blogs/tuchman/051128.aspWe saw bright stars on a balmy night, shining on the Sea of Galilee. We talked about new technology with brainy professors at Technion University. We heard a pitch from former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to "come and make money in Israel." And we heard a moderate legislator from the Palestinian Authority condemn suicide attacks but also Israel's retaliations.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{c864884a-cf52-f90d-dab1-ef29dffcb81}Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:19:42 GMThttp://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/tuchman/051114.aspThis new sourcebook has two firsts for Engineering News-Record. It is the first time we have expanded our Top Owners issue to a sourcebook, and the first time we have combined a sourcebook with a news magazine.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{899728e0-e9a9-2eaa-3ec2-b1a4454dd26}Mon, 14 Nov 2005 21:25:33 GMThttp://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/tuchman/051017.aspENR will capture "The Year in Construction" in its fourth annual photo essay, appearing this year in the Dec. 26 issue. Readers are invited to submit dynamic photos of projects and people working safely by Nov. 4. The best images will be chosen by a panel of judges for publication. Readers should submit construction photos taken anywhere in the world between Nov. 1, 2004, and Oct. 31, 2005. Entry forms may be downloaded from enr.com and sent to the address listed below or e-mailed to enr_photo_contest@mcgraw-hill.com.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{e942dd72-41b8-7718-d995-1d0682b3df1e}Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:26:17 GMThttp://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/tuchman/050912.aspFollowing our tradition of on-the- scene coverage of major news events, ENR dispatched reporters and photographers to Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi to tell the story of relief and recovery in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The hurricane and subsequent flooding were an unspeakable human tragedy. There has been much talk of what should have been done 10 years ago or what could have been done five years ago. But this is today, and as always, engineers and contractors are on the front lines of digging out and restoring vital services. We will tell their stories in these pages.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{43ed45e3-b36f-4590-15e7-dbb166c9437}Mon, 12 Sep 2005 20:27:49 GMThttp://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/tuchman/050815.aspIn his 31 years in construction, on the industry side as well as with Engineering News-Record, Senior Editor Tom Armistead has had many adventures. He erected transmission towers, visited an LNG plant in Trinidad and an offshore oil-production vessel in Newfoundland. He even covered oil and power reconstruction efforts in Iraq. But his visit to Pickering A Nuclear Generating Station for this week’s cover story was like nothing else he has seen.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{681420c-347e-78c0-808f-6bd5be3fde6f}Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:28:33 GMThttp://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/tuchman/050711.aspThe Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, is a great place to celebrate. ENR was among the award winners honored there at the June 21 gala of the American Society of Business Publication Editors.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{5d4e7f03-5d49-b9bc-3447-869dc18d4c71}Mon, 11 Jul 2005 20:29:25 GMThttp://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/tuchman/050502.aspWhile representing McGraw-Hill Construction at a ceremony at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on April 22 to honor 96 graduating cadets joining the U.S. Army Engineer Regiment, ENR Associate Editor Tom Sawyer was amazed to be called forward and presented with a medal by Lt. Gen. Carl A. Strock, the chief of engineers. Sawyer was presented with the Bronze Order of the de Fleury Medal in recognition of his "superb support" for the engineer soldiers.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{347e47f8-43c-10bd-11af-9b5d94ff5ef1}Mon, 02 May 2005 20:30:15 GMThttp://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/tuchman/050418.aspMost of the company names have a familiar ring and many firms still are going strong. Others have been acquired, merged or absorbed into other firms. And some no longer exist at all. They are the Top 500 Design Firms from Dec. 16, 1965, the first ever.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{ffcea7d-fa5f-177e-2e7b-e659f21fcae5}Mon, 18 Apr 2005 20:31:00 GMThttp://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/tuchman/050404.aspWhen Joe Maloney, secretary-treasurer of the Building and Construction Trades Dept., AFL-CIO, heard that ENR editors had selected him to be the 40th recipient of the magazine’s Award of Excellence, his response was "jeepers creepers...oh Lordy, I have to pinch myself."enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{5cac8172-b14f-540d-b69-215b45627bb6}Mon, 04 Apr 2005 20:33:53 GMThttp://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/tuchman/050103.aspFor the first issue of 2005, we take a look at how one of the world’s most recognizable suspension bridges is being strengthened to help it survive “The Big One”—an earthquake of magnitude 8.3 on the San Andreas Fault . Contractors are now finishing the second part of an intricate three-phase seismic upgrade of San Francisco’s Golden Gate.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{cc959180-3535-e8e6-23b0-33b777df60d7}Mon, 03 Jan 2005 21:34:35 GMThttp://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/tuchman/041227.aspCongratulations to the third annual ENR photo contest winners, whose images are brought to you in the pages of this issue. ENR readers submitted photos of people and projects from all over the world taken in the past year. One firm held an internal contest to select its entries and placed two among our winners. Margaret Austin, who handled the photo submissions from Webcor Builders, San Mateo, Calif., got about 30 responses from her request for submissions. "We had a lot of funny ones, and then some were great and very interesting. It was the ones that had the ‘ahh’ factor...the ones that speak a story...that we really liked," she says.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{94fa510e-9876-c8ab-a878-b8c2ad651988}Mon, 27 Dec 2004 21:35:22 GMThttp://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/tuchman/041213.aspVisitors to Engineering News-Record’s Website, enr.com, can now view a ranking of the Top 60 Contractors and Top 60 Design Firms in China. The list sets a number of firsts. This is the first time that ENR has been involved in a ranking of industry firms in a country outside the United States and the first time we have partnered on a ranking with another publication.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{9cad7036-d58d-aa6e-a1f7-dafd4e9bca65}Mon, 13 Dec 2004 21:36:11 GMThttp://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/tuchman/040405.aspThis week’s Award of Excellence cover story on Col. Gregg F. Martin, chief Army combat engineer in Iraq, was reported and written by Associate Editor Tom Sawyer. Sawyer had become intrigued about the work of combat engineers when he reported on the emergency construction of runways in a remote corner of Afghanistan in 2001.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{8539e3b3-4547-d08f-151d-70df7d15b6f2}Mon, 05 Apr 2004 20:37:07 GMThttp://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/tuchman/040329.aspThe Brooklyn Tower of the great East River bridge was rising above the waterfront of New York in April of 1874, and James B. Eads was striving to complete the first steel arch bridge across the Mississippi River. It was an exciting time for the construction industry, and George H. Frost took advantage of it to publish a 16-page journal. The Engineer and Surveyor, he said, would “fill the vacancy now existing in the engineering literature of the country.”enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{75a636c-15d6-606c-f0c4-f87e589d2c5e}Mon, 29 Mar 2004 21:37:47 GMThttp://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/tuchman/040322.aspThe tremendous surge in steel prices during the first quarter has the industry talking. At the Associated General Contractors national convention in Orlando recently, many contractors said the soaring prices seemed to come out of the blue.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{9818f11c-aa7e-226b-94f5-d9b08e9fbafc}Mon, 22 Mar 2004 21:38:50 GMThttp://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/tuchman/031229.aspOur readers have done it again. Their photos of all kinds of projects taken all over the world allowed ENR to capture "The Year in Construction," a photo essay.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{ffafaa1f-c4a0-3929-e582-34d6abfa9947}Mon, 29 Dec 2003 21:39:41 GMThttp://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/tuchman/031215.aspIn this issue, we commemorate the 100th anniversary of controlled, sustained flight by a powered heavier-than-air craft. Dec. 17, 1903, was the historic day in Kitty Hawk, N.C. Orville Wright was the pilot and Wilbur ran alongside steadying the right wing as the plane gathered speed along a 60-ft monorail track. The flight lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 ft, but a camera had been set up and captured the scene just after liftoff for posterity. The brothers flew three more times that day, covering 852 ft in their final 59-second flight.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{30178e98-b722-7bcc-41e3-ec3b75ed510}Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:40:25 GMThttp://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/tuchman/031006.aspEditors have gone to some out-of-the-way places to get ENR stories. But transportation editor Aileen Cho’s recent climb may be a first. This week’s lead story on a new method for predicting the lifespan of suspension bridge cables led Cho almost to the top of the Mid-Hudson River Bridge in Highland, N.Y.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{24352704-c57c-c65a-992b-20ff98fb2c34}Mon, 06 Oct 2003 20:41:18 GMThttp://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/tuchman/030915.aspThis week’s magazine features the 100th ENR cover photo taken by extraordinary construction photographer Michael Goodman. Earlier this year, Goodman joined the magazine’s masthead as contributing photographer.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{97a81092-da4e-e8a0-64e6-bcdd19d217ea}Mon, 15 Sep 2003 20:41:18 GMThttp://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/tuchman/030630.aspWith this issue we introduce Global Projects, a magazine-within-a-magazine about challenging and record-setting projects worldwide—and about the business of international construction.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{7e58b07a-ca90-b0bd-67ec-5bcac6f95771}Mon, 30 Jun 2003 20:43:17 GMThttp://www.enr.com/people/blogs/tuchman/030428.aspThis magazine's coverage of the war in Iraq has chronicled the often overlooked efforts of military engineers who set the stage for battle, breach obstacles and clear the way for advancing combat troops. Their work is difficult, dangerous and deadly, a point driven home this week by ENR Associate Editor Tom Sawyer. Advancing with elements of the U.S. Army's Third Infantry Division, Sawyer's story of the engineers' war speaks of heroism and death.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{fd4dcc58-52fe-7021-e63e-8f67564c6af4}Mon, 28 Apr 2003 17:27:44 GMThttp://www.enr.com/people/blogs/tuchman/030407.aspThis issue celebrates the achievements of the the 2003 newsmakers and Award of Excellence Winner Kathi Littmann. She pulled off the remarkable turnaround in the beleaguered Los Angeles school construction program.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{bfa1d763-8fec-b214-cc47-a0979e16ed0}Mon, 07 Apr 2003 17:25:55 GMThttp://www.enr.com/people/blogs/tuchman/030317.aspENR associate editor Tom Sawyer reported for duty at the front last week. His assignment: to bring the best news coverage possible to ENR and enr.com's readers about the construction activities supporting the military buildup around Iraq.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{39f245d-69d1-5585-a4fd-e3b6621f528}Mon, 17 Mar 2003 18:24:47 GMThttp://www.enr.com/people/blogs/tuchman/030303.aspThe March 3, 2003 issue of Engineering News-Record marks the debut of ENR Next, a special section devoted to emerging engineers and contractors, those individuals with 10 or fewer years of experience in the industry. They may be young or not so young, but, as newcomers to the industry, they share a thirst for knowledge, industry information and tips on how to succeed in their chosen careers. ENR Next is delivering that information on the Web at enr.com and now as a periodic section within the magazine.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{adfd507e-5781-1c9a-a7c8-6b00a4044c69}Mon, 03 Mar 2003 18:23:33 GMThttp://www.enr.com/people/blogs/tuchman/020909.aspIn this issue, the editors of ENR commemorate the first anniversary of the attacks onthe World Trade Center towers, as we did last week with the attack on the Pentagon (ENR 9/2 p. 2). Much has happened in the last year as we have adjusted our lives and habits to the reality that the U.S. is at war with an international syndicate of terrorists.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{bc7ba69a-8b87-4ec0-ee34-5307b2a0b0da}Mon, 09 Sep 2002 17:21:20 GMThttp://www.enr.com/people/blogs/tuchman/020422.aspIn conducting the scores of interviews for the 2002 Award of Excellence cover story in this week's issue, Managing Senior Editor Debra K. Rubin was surprised to discover how many key players in the cleanup of the destroyed World Trade Center complex had to use whatever means possible to get onto the site to do their jobs.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{531b9c90-9030-29e0-4898-4ecf6f6b1bba}Mon, 22 Apr 2002 17:20:11 GMThttp://www.enr.com/people/blogs/tuchman/020318.aspAccompanying this issue of Engineering News-Record is the first issue of Design•Build magazine, which will be distributed this year to ENR's full circulation. Other issues will follow in June and December. These issues will be a bonus included in the price of an ENR subscription. We are also sending Design•Build to a select group of owners around the country who have an interest in design-build project delivery.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{b06783a5-2626-d45-75f2-311f17ce4807}Mon, 18 Mar 2002 18:18:09 GMThttp://www.enr.com/people/blogs/tuchman/020107.aspThe ENR Top Lists have been a construction industry tradition for over 40 years. ENR continues that tradition in 2002 with its lineup of eight Top List survey issues and three market Sourcebooks.enr_web_editors@mcgraw-hill.comEngineering{afadc298-64cb-420a-38e8-87b6b6a3b6a}Mon, 07 Jan 2002 18:17:06 GMT