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The article informs that Akron, Ohio, is working for its art museum expansion on a trendier image by using an international starchitect. According to Mitchell D. Kahan, museum director, the museum carries a signature design element which is used to help buildings escape from their sense of weightiness and gravity.

The announces that the editor-in-chief of the "Engineering News Record" was inducted into the National Academy of Construction, a group of industry leaders recognized for outstanding achievements in and contributions to engineering and construction.

The article discusses several reports published within the issue, including the week's cover story "Road to Recovery," by the editors, and an overview of next issue's second part of a series exploring the challenges being faced by firms trying to be competitive.

The article discusses various reports published within the issue, including one dealing with technological advances in building and engineering, another on the importance of learning in project teams and another on digital modelling trend.

Information on the Jesse H. Neal awards received by "ENR: Engineering News-Record" is presented.

An introduction to magazine's "Best of the Best" list of engineering projects.

The article presents an invitation for the "Engineering News-Record's" annual photo essay of the year 2008 in construction.

The article features Yan Wang, manager of urban and transportation planning in PB, an engineering company in Beijing, China. It also discusses some of her daily activities in the PB office in Atlanta, Georgia. Yan Wang's client is the Beijing Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games (BOCOG). Wang grew up in Hebei province and went to Jiaotong University. She got an undergraduate and master's degrees in transportation management and engineering.

The author talks about the recent staff project, involving interaction with 16 professionals for 16 days. The journalists followed their subjects at wild hours or at high elevations. Equipment Editor Tudor Van Hampton met his foundation contractor to escort a trucker delivering a giant steel casing to the site in downtown Chicago, Europe Correspondent Peter Reina worked the night shift shadowing the manager of a huge expansion to the London Underground and Transportation Editor Aileen Cho followed her aerial inspector up the roof of Miller Park.

The article discusses various reports published within the issue, including the "Engineering News-Record" Top 500 Design Firms Sourcebook and a cover story about the successful initial public offering (IPO) for design firm AECOM.

The article announces awards given to the writers and staff of the "Engineering News-Record and New York Construction News" including the Boger Awards of the Construction Writers Association to Richard Korman, the Wright Photography Awards to Michael Goodman and Engineering Journalism Award of the American Association of Engineering Societies to Aileen Cho.

The article presents an update on "Engineering News-Record." 2007 will be a year of transformation for the periodical. It is changing to a new model where subscription will have three parts such as print issues, an electronic newsletter and complete access to all the content on ENR.com. The publication's Web site also offers all the stories in the print issues plus many expanded features, including slide shows, podcasts, blogs, video clips and links to news from other media.

The article presents information about the list of top 500 design firms. The construction industry is a highly fragmented one, with design firms ranging from solo practitioners to multi-billion-dollar conglomerates. In the first survey of design firms, all 456 pure design firms were on the list, along with 44 design-constructors. The Top 456 pure design firms had total billings of $728 million, about a quarter of the design revenue of the year's largest firm. The first major change in the Top 500 ranking criteria was in the mid-1980s, when engineer-constructors were permitted to split their design billings from construction revenue.

Presents an introduction to articles published in the January 03 issue of the periodical "Engineering News-Record."

Presents an introduction to articles published in the January 2005 issue of "Engineering News Record."

The article reports on Engineering News-Record periodical editor Emeritus Arthur J. Fox being honored for outstanding achievement, innovation and leadership in transportation construction. He saw the need for intermodal transportation, not just highways, which was very farsighted at the time. Honorees include builders, engineers, equipment innovators, technology and materials innovators, safety pioneers and educators, news media and association executives.

The journal "The Engineer and Surveyor," published in 1974, was the direct ancestor of the journal "Engineering News-Record," which marks its 130th anniversary of publication next week. "The Engineer and Surveyor" became "Engineering News" in 1875, when weekly publication began. Another journal rooted in sanitary engineering went through several name changes before settling on "Engineering Record" in 1890. James H. McGraw, publisher of "Record," and John A. Hill, publisher of "News," shared the vision that technical journalism was a way of serving readers.

The article presents information on articles published in the November 18, 2003 issue of the magazine "Engineering News-Record." In a single volume, one can survey engineering and construction programs at colleges and universities, look up the phone number of the chief contracting officer of the National Park Service and find out the open-shop wage rates for journeyman carpenters. A list of worldwide and industry-wide records is compiled, which includes the longest bridges, tallest buildings, longest tunnels, tallest dams and largest concrete pours, among others.

Global Projects is a magazine-within-a-magazine about challenging and record-setting projects worldwide, and about the business of international construction. It has been part of a mission for the magazine 'ENR: Engineering New-Record' for a very long time to cover the technical innovations, the breakthrough designs and the management challenges of working around the world. The new section has been organized by ENR Managing Editor John J. Kosowatz, who has a keen interest in international work and has reported from Russia during perestroika, Germany after the Berlin Wall went down and China as infrastructure construction ramped up.

The design was created by New York City-based Shostak Studios, which has done much of its work in technology and business publication design. The evolution of cover design of 'ENR,' as shown through cover stories about past conflicts and the rebuilding efforts that followed is given. As 'Engineering News' merged with 'Engineering Record,' in 1917 to create 'Engineering News-Record,' the magazine faced World War I. By the time the magazine covered the Gulf War and made Bechtel Construction Co. President Terry Farley “Man of the Year” for leading the effort to put out the oil fires in Kuwait in the year 1992, we had become best known as ENR, and the acronym became a cover element for the first time.