Description:"Construction Facts" features the world's largest structures--tallest buildings, longest bridges and tunnels, and largest dams--with lists of the largest construction projects in the world, and a section on construction disasters. It also includes a section on notable people, market and labor statistics, a directory of professional organizations, unions, and engineering schools, and more (see Details). Photographs are not included; however, this version is jam-packed with information that lives well beyond its original publication date.
This 79-page issue contains the following:
Construction Records
Tallest Buildings in the World
Largest Building by Volume
Largest Building by Floor Area
World's Longest Bridge of Any Type
World's Longest Suspension Bridges
World's Longest Cable-Stayed Bridges
World's Longest Cantilever Bridges
World's Longest Segmental Concrete Bridges
World's Longest Cantilever Bridges
World's Longest Segmental Concrete Bridges
World's Largest Capacity Reservoirs
World's Tallest Dams
World's Longest Water Tunnels
World's Longest Railway Tunnels
World's Longest Vehicular Tunnels
Largest Continuous Concrete Pour in the World
Largest Continuous Concrete Pour in the United States
Projects
World's Largest Projects and Programs
Construction Disasters
Deadliest Construction Projects Since 1900
Major Construction Accidents Since 900
Major Bridge Failures
Roof Collapses
Dam Breaks and Overtoppings
Economics
Construction Put-in-Place
Federal Construction Budget
Contract Awards
Relative Sizes of Major Industries
ENR Cost Indexes
Building materials Prices
Labor Costs
Compensation
Employment and Unemployment
Equipment Sales
NOTABLE PEOPLE:
World's Construction Leaders of the Past 50 Years
51 construction industry leaders selected by the editors of Engineering News-Record in 1999 as part of the magazine's 125th anniversary celebration. They were chosen for their notable contributions to the construction industry whose main work fell within the past 50 years. (name, year of birth/death, descriptive paragraph of person and project)
ENR's Award of Excellence Winners
Past Winners of ENR's Award of Excellence -1966-2003 (name, project)
Sources of Information
- Major Professional Organizations (organization, address, telephone, fax, website)
- Unions (agency, address, telephone, fax, website)
- Government Agencies-U.S. (agency, address, telephone, website)
- Departments of Transportation (organization, address, telephone, fax, website)
- International Organizations (organization, address, telephone, fax, website, email)
- Consulting and Forecasting Firms (organization, address, telephone, fax, email, website)
Education Programs
-Dirctory of Civil Engineering and Construction Schools (school, department,program, telephone, website, city, state
- Training Programs -- Directory of Union and Non-Union Training Programs (craft, basics, contact information)
Definitions
Project Delivery Methods
Viewpoint
"When in Writing, Safety Is Serious," by Theodore A. Christensen (magazine article)
