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Engineering News-Record

U.S. construction trade press (industry-oriented, politically non-partisan)

Owned byBNP Media, a family-owned, privately held B2B publisher based in Troy, Michigan. BNP bought ENR from Dodge Data & Analytics on July 1, 2015.
FundingMainly advertising and sponsorships from construction, engineering and building-products firms. Other income comes from paid subscriptions, events and conferences, and industry rankings and data products, such as the Top 400 Contractors list.
On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

ENR was formed in 1917 when two rival magazines merged. Engineering News dates to 1874 and was bought by John A. Hill in 1911. Engineering Record dates to 1877 and was bought by James H. McGraw in 1902. It stayed with McGraw-Hill for almost a century, and the company later became McGraw-Hill Construction and then Dodge Data & Analytics. BNP Media, founded in 1926, bought ENR, Architectural Record and SNAP from Dodge on July 1, 2015. ENR is known for its annual rankings, such as the Top 400 Contractors, its cost indexes, and its coverage of project safety and failures. Its readers are mostly contractors, engineers, owners and suppliers, so its coverage is shaped by their business interests. Under the second Trump administration, ENR's recent articles treat policy as a business matter. They report on tariffs, including the Supreme Court's February 2026 ruling against the IEEPA tariffs and the Section 122 surcharge that followed. In one article, it reported contractors' cost and contract risks, such as the 43% of contractors that cited delayed or canceled projects. It has also noted executives who say tariffs have been less damaging than economists predicted. The coverage reports on policy and does not endorse or oppose the administration. Its stories on tariffs focus on cost risks to the industry.

Sources

  1. Engineering News-Record (Wikipedia)
  2. BNP Media Acquires Architectural Record, Engineering News-Record, and SNAP
  3. Engineering News-Record is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year (Editor & Publisher)
  4. Section 122 Tariffs Leave Construction Cost Exposure Largely Intact (ENR)
  5. Senate Defies Trump on Tariffs as Industry Sees Mounting Costs (ENR)
  6. Tariffs Likely to Hurt Construction Economy, Experts Say (ENR)

Profile compiled 2026-10-07; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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