Form and Function

It happens every year.

About three weeks after we finish judging for our annual Top Projects issue of Wisconsin Builder, people call to see if their projects made the final list of 20 winners.

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Work in Progress

A building is only as good as the ground beneath it.

And no building will sit well on ground filled with buried foundations, buried tanks, foundry sand and a variety of other discarded or forgotten materials. Those are basic facts that Beyer Construction confronted early in the process of building 601 Lofts on East Ogden Avenue in Milwaukee’s East Pointe neighborhood.

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Industry Pulse

Your Honor, On the Horizon, Dotted Line,Giving Back, Peer Review, By Design, Burning Question, In Memoriam, On the Move, Best of the Web, Off the Clock

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Construction Corner

Michael Hermes explains the impact of a recent bidding lawsuit.

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County Lines

Trempealeau County practically begs people to get outside.

Whether it’s the Mississippi River, Perrot State Park or the Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge, the area’s natural beauty takes center stage. In fact, during the 1800s, a Methodist minister published his belief that the area was the Bible’s Garden of Eden, according to the Trempealeau Chamber of Commerce’s Web site.

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On the Home Front

Contractors in Wisconsin better brush the dust off the textbooks because it’s time to go back to school.

Rather than learning reading, writing and arithmetic, builders now will study techniques, technologies and regulations. And, this time around, attendance is not an option.

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A Page from the Past

Important May dates in history

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