Category: News

September 29, 2023

For the opening of CAB 5, the 5th edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) presented an eco-friendly alternative to traditional concrete. Named the “Bio-Block Spiral,” the installation is at The Mews in Fulton Market in […]

September 29, 2023

The U.S. Dept. of Interior said Sept. 28 it will offer up to $328 million in funding opportunities for water recycling, water storage and desalination projects to help communities address the impacts of climate change. Its Bureau of Reclamation is […]

September 26, 2023

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has announced that it has begun taking applications for $7.5 billion in credit assistance from a new program that aims to help nonfederal government agencies, municipalities and other dam owners address flooding risks to […]

September 26, 2023

Specialist market research and forecasting company Off-Highway Research believes 575 new all-terrain, rough terrain and truck cranes will be sold in South America this year. That may not be very many – perhaps 6 percent of the market in the […]

September 22, 2023

On a positive note, it was the second consecutive month-to-month increase for project kick offs, marking a move away from a trend of off-again, on-again growth. And across the U.S., total construction starts in August rose in three of four […]

September 20, 2023

The tunnel is part of the Clean Rivers Project, which stems from a lawsuit that environmental groups filed in 2000 against the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority for allowing billions of gallons of untreated sewage to flow into […]

September 19, 2023

The U.S. Dept. of Energy is coming to the aid of states and territories by offering a total of $400 million in formula funding toward the adoption or the update of model energy codes for commercial development. The goal of […]

September 19, 2023

Kali Bonnell has built her construction career at Redwood City, California-based DPR Construction, where she worked her way up from intern in 2008. In May, she advanced from project engineer with the firm’s Special Services Group to its Atlanta business […]

September 14, 2023

Infrastructure covers a range of projects, but for the most part involves physical systems that help the greater good. More often than not, infrastructure projects comprise work that is behind the scenes, although the construction or reconstruction can cause disruptions […]

September 13, 2023

As young as 6 years old, Selasie Buatsi had her own steel-toe shoes and hard hat, which she donned each Saturday for tagging along with her contractor father to jobsites in her native Ghana. This early exposure to the industry […]

September 11, 2023

One of the main problems contractors face, according to the survey, is a lack of qualifications — 68% of firms reported that applicants lacked the skills needed to work in construction. “It is time to rethink the way the nation […]

September 11, 2023

The commercial component of the index, which includes retail, warehouse and office, dropped 1.6% in August, while the institutional sector, encompassing healthcare and education projects, tumbled 14.8%. On a positive note, the DMI remained 4% higher than in August 2022. […]

September 7, 2023

The Construction industry may find itself already halfway through the third quarter of the year, but data flowing out of the second quarter may hold the key to a successful second half of the year. Two key dates from the […]

September 6, 2023

Lump sum. Bid and buy. Read and rip. These were the terms that dominated preconstruction before the pandemic. “Our industry historically has been driven by the traditional construction manager at risk model, where the owner will start with the architect […]

September 1, 2023

Construction employment kept on its recent upward path in August, as the industry gained a solid 22,000 jobs with increases in nearly all industry sectors, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported. The bureau’s latest monthly report on U.S. employment, […]

August 30, 2023

“Across all industries, job openings are now at the lowest level since March 2021 and the rate at which workers are quitting their jobs has returned to the pre-pandemic norm,” said Basu. “Unfortunately, the demand for construction workers remains elevated […]

August 29, 2023

A failure to properly stabilize a residential building balcony in Sea Isle, N.J. that later collapsed and improper securing of lifelines are among the findings of an investigation by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration into the fatal accident […]

August 29, 2023

Fast Company’s 2023 Innovation Awards, an annual series dedicated to spotlighting advancements in tech across industries, offers a glimpse at the future of design and construction. The winning ideas help solve what the magazine calls “thorny problems.” “All of the […]

August 22, 2023

The Federal Highway Administration has awarded a total of $8.8 million to eight states and the District of Columbia for demonstration projects that propose to use state-of-the-art technologies for highway and bridge infrastructure durability, safety and asset management. The awards, […]

August 22, 2023

Rapid growth in artificial intelligence is fueling data center demand, but power constraints are swelling building costs, said Gordon Dolven, director of Americas data center research at CBRE. Those construction costs have generally increased across all U.S. regions, yet the […]