Inventing new technologies. Dreaming up more efficient processes. Solving seemingly insurmountable project and business challenges. Challenging the status quo. These were among achievements last year for those selected for construction industry recognition on April 9 .

As COVID-19 upended daily work lives in a year like no other, current and future construction participants found new ways to get the job done

Jim White’s experience was critical to the innovative construction approach that shaved six months off the schedule of Oxford Group’s $1-billion effort to transform the former St. John’s rail freight terminal on Manhattan’s West Side into the 1.3-million-sq-ft corporate hub that tech giant Google plans to occupy next year.

Martin J. Walsh made national news long before President-elect Joe Biden nominated the mayor of Boston to serve as labor secretary.

Sitting with his wife, Maureen, in 2015 in a booth at the Space Needle’s former SkyCity restaurant celebrating their shared birthday, Bob Vincent had just learned his longtime employer Hoffman Construction landed the contract of a lifetime: to renovate the iconic Seattle landmark. And he couldn’t say a word.

Leading transportation agencies in pushing technology and partnerships

Filter that zaps the coronavirus and other airborne pathogens goes from brainstorm to deployment in warp speed

Developing AI-based visual-analysis tool for facade inspections, changing how buildings are maintained

Fired up to develop the nation’s first mass-timber tower—the 284-ft-tall Ascent in Milwaukee

Free webinars on coronavirus attracted top-tier participants to discuss the unknown ramifications of COVID-19 on industry