May 29, 2020
May 28, 2020
The House has passed legislation, by an overwhelming margin, that would loosen some restrictions for implementing the federal Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP, which provides forgivable loans to assist small businesses stay afloat during the coronavirus pandemic. The bill, which […]
May 21, 2020
The survey also showed that many contractors have become conditioned to accepting slow payments and their negative impact on productivity as the industry norm. More than 75% of those who responded to the survey said that they were generally happy […]
May 14, 2020
ConstructConnect announced today that the latest month’s volume of construction starts, excluding residential work, was $32.6 billion (green shaded box, Table 3 below), an increase of +2.3% versus March’s figure of $31.8 billion (originally reported as $30.8 billion). Amidst so […]
May 26, 2020
ENRIn an unprecedented collaboration, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Salesforce, along with floor covering supplier Interface, are showing their collective commitment to embodied carbon reduction by joining the board of Building Transparency—a nonprofit formed recently to further develop a free-to-use digital […]
Construction Site Safety, Hazards
May 22, 2020
ConstructConnectWe all know that fall hazards are the leading cause of construction worker deaths, accounting for about 33.5% of all fatalities in construction each year. Of the 338 construction worker fatalities attributed to falls in 2018, close to 15% were […]
May 22, 2020
ConstructConnectThe story of the recent deterioration in U.S. and Canadian housing starts can best be told through a series of graphs. Both nations began this year with relatively high levels of residential groundbreakings. In January 2020, the U.S. recorded 1.617 […]
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