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The construction industry is incredibly broad, covering everything from hanging shelves in someone’s home through to infrastructure projects that traverse national borders and push the envelope of current engineering capabilities. Both these types of project are equally important, minor home renovations can have a major impact on someone’s life by improving the aesthetics of where they live or by making it easier for them to perform everyday tasks. On the other hand, a major infrastructure project is going to improve the safety, security, or quality of life for thousands or even millions ...

Bad concepts, non-starters, ahead-of-their-time fiascos — Las Vegas has had its share In the fall of 1989, amid widespread coverage of the impending opening of Steve Wynn’s $640 million Mirage, students in Columbia University’s graduate program in history approached a colleague of theirs and asked, as a Las Vegan, what he thought of it. His reply: “Nobody is going to pay $125 to see Siegfried and Roy.” Happily for Las Vegas, that supposed expert was wrong. From the volcano in front to the white tiger habitat and tropical rain forest motif, Wynn’s 3,000-plus-room resort proved to b...