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Supreme Court to pick up pieces amid contractor dispute over collapsed barn
When a barn in rural Dane County halfway collapsed during a storm in 2013, killing cows and damaging property, everyone knew it was going to cost a lot to pick up the pieces.
Diversity starts in Balestrieri’s own house
For Balestrieri Environmental & Development, diversity has been central to its 26-years of success as an environmental-remediation and industrial-services company.
For Hispanic professionals group, diversity is about action
Seventeen years ago, diversity and inclusion weren’t even being talked about at many businesses and institutions. However, both topics have been front and center at the Hispanic Professionals of Greater Milwaukee since its founding in 2001.
Greenfire pays it forward
For Milwaukee-based Greenfire Management Services, diversity is about giving back and helping other minority firms build success.
Housing authority helps residents tap their potential
Under Tony Perez’s watch, the Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee embarked in 2017 on a fairly out-of-the-ordinary attempt at encouraging diversity within its own ranks and outside its offices.
Accessibility, understanding key to Municipal Court
Two years ago, the Milwaukee Municipal Court first organized Warrant Withdrawal Wednesdays, setting three Wednesdays aside for dealing with warrants, driver’s license suspensions and vehicle-registration denials without requiring the immediate payment of fines.
Knutson looks outside the box, keeps Gilbane on the cutting edge of technology
When most people think about construction, they think about people working with their hands, using ages-old techniques to put up buildings.
Work ethic makes Kuhn a proven leader
In college, Brett Kuhn was on an engineering track. But after an internship in Marquette University’s facilities and planning department, which involved doing small renovations on campus, he found himself veering toward construction.
No matter the project, Keaveney delivers
Work in construction often means long days and long stretches away from home.
Schwasinger relishes challenge of complex projects
Construction is in Jeff Schwasinger’s blood.
Nash balances safety, speed as site super
You know you’re doing a good job building a zoo exhibit when zoo officials invite you to meet their elephants.
Erickson maintains ‘do not disturb’ mentality
Tony Erickson got his first taste of construction as a senior in high school, when he made deliveries and did other general labor at his uncle’s ironwork business in Minnesota.
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- Kraus-Anderson will deliver first phase of $175M Big Bend sports complex
- Long-delayed Milwaukee boutique hotel plans show signs of life
- I-794 bridge improvements starting in Milwaukee
- Wisconsin Pre-Bid Meetings – Week of May 4, 2026
- Construction worker killed in lumber pile collapse in West Bend
- Milwaukee to Madison train line to cost $200M with state help
- I-794 removal could see $500M in development, but more crashes
- Cobalt Partners changes up its Third Ward moving plans
- State program releases $135M for local roads
- Eau Claire approves $270M biomanufacturing facility deal
- Manitowoc port development gets $20 million boost
- Mark Hammond, Wauwatosa development director, will leave for nonprofit job
Project Profiles
- First prefabricated bridge in US installed in Eau Claire County
- Illinois developer worked with Wisconsin contractor to build 258-unit Wauwatosa apartment complex
- VJS Construction raises the roof for Bruce Guadalupe Community School expansion project
- Microgrid pilot project will store energy for village affected by outages
- Dane County sees uptick in highway work zone crashes, on track to exceed last year
- The Hop streetcar will debut newest service route in fall with limited service
- FPC Live slims venue proposal to 1 downtown building
- Children’s Hospital urgent care center in Milwaukee gets first round of city approval
- With Sonag Construction shut down, feds move to block indicted owner from collecting leftover assets
- Four contractors selected to build border wall prototypes
- UW-Milwaukee’s Greenstreet shaping minds (and the city)
- Turning the Corner(s) (PHOTO SLIDESHOW)