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The taunts started in the first days of Andre Pryce’s new job, camouflaged as joking. During the nine months of 2019 spent working as a drill rig hand, mostly in the woods in western Pennsylvania, for a contractor that also performs much construction-related drilling, he said coworkers filled his ears with racist insults.

In densely populated cities surrounded on all sides by water—the borough of Manhattan in New York City as a prime example—the risks from sea level rise and climate change are not just hypotheticals; they are existential threats.

The taunts started in the first days of Andre Pryce’s new job, camouflaged as joking. During the nine months of 2019 spent working as a drill rig hand, mostly in the woods in western Pennsylvania, for a contractor that also performs much construction-related drilling, he said coworkers filled his ears with racist insults.

In comments about the market’s most pressing challenges, Top 600 Specialty Contractors are widely optimistic that the worst of pandemic-induced delays are done—buttressed by another year of double-digit revenue growth for listed firms.

Schools and industry employers boost employee professional development—from communication to team dynamics—as pandemic-altered learning and work environments impact real-world skills engagement.

Despite harsh elements and a remote site, an army of workers reach critical milestones on decade-long dam project in British Columbia.

Veteran structural engineer Don Davies has a dream. He wants to grow farm-to-building materials. Davies already owns the family farm in his native Idaho, but isn’t quite ready to plant the seeds to realize his dream.

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Water systems, and their design and construction experts, boost efforts to eliminate contamination from ubiquitous forever’ chemicals, a key component of widely used firefighting foam runoff—as federal rules, technologies and costs catch up.

State, municipal and industry actions are growing to eliminate contamination from ubiquitous forever’ chemicals, such as firefighting foam, in water systems and elsewhere—as federal rules, technology and costs catch up.