January 2025

✕ There is no future without a past, and this year’s group of ENR Newsmakers clearly demonstrates a throughline between those moving points in time, offering solutions to the types of questions we all may have asked ourselves at some

India launched earlier this month its first green hydrogen hub, with an estimated $21.6 billion investment planned to develop 20 GW of renewable energy projects and produce 1,500 tons per day of green hydrogen and 7,500 TPD of green

Mateo Jaramillo, co-founder and CEO of long-duration battery storage innovator Form Energy, hit the trifecta last year: completing the firm's first factory in West Virginia with plans to expand this year; getting its first U.S. commercial system installations under

The journey to founding the Concrete Preservation Institute Foundation was fueled by CEO Tanya Wattenburg Komas “following my passions every step of the way.”A former professor of construction industry management at California State University, Chico, Komas developed a passion

When McCarthy Building Cos. won the $57-million job to demolish a failed dock structure and build a new general cargo dock at the Port of Beaumont, Texas, “we were surprised,” says senior project manager Robert Wood. “Our business leader

When Pranaya Shrestha’s father immigrated to the United States from Nepal in 1976, he sacrificed a prestigious government position and worked seven days a week operating a grocery store in Minnesota.His two sons and a daughter “worked hard to

Many contractors today require workers to wear helmets with anti-concussion technology to protect against side, back and front head impacts, as opposed to hardhats that only shield against impacts from above. But Clark Construction Group has required the more

  Karl E. Humberson jokes that his leadership role to build the country’s largest offshore wind energy project—Dominion Energy’s $10-billion, 178-turbine CVOW off the Virginia coast that is on track to finish by the end of 2026—started as

Robert D. “Danny” Evans Jr. couldn’t help but smile as four lines of self-propelled modular transporters gently backed a new 2,800-ton cracking furnace into position at Chevron Phillips Chemical Co.’s Baytown, Texas, ethylene plant in September 2022. For three

As artificial intelligence continues to transform everyday activities, an arms race in construction technology AI services has begun, and a site-focused startup called Trunk Tools is leading it.In 2022 and 2023, Trunk Tools was a one-product company with a