Construction Industry News

MOLINE, Ill. (October 31, 2016) - Two industry veterans from the manufacturing side of equipment rental will become the newest inductees into the Rental Hall of Fame next February. Art Moore, the founder of Snorkel, and Spencer Etzel, a visionary in tent rental now with Rainier, will be formally inducted during a ceremony at The Rental Show on February 27.

October 27, 2016 — Strengthening its hand at both ends of the lifting market, the ALL Family of Companies began the final quarter of 2016 announcing the acquisition of an equipment package consisting of large-capacity crawlers and aerial lift equipment, including boom lifts and telescopic forklifts. The two separate deals with leading-brand manufacturers Manitowoc and JLG will include 30 new machines.

BEACHWOOD, Ohio (October 26, 2016) –  Following the restoration of Ford Field’s 340,000-square-foot domed roof, the Detroit Lions organization has chosen Tremco Roofing and Building Maintenance as its official roofing supplier.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - A group of contractor associations today sued the city of New York to stop the enforcement of arbitrary and capricious crawler crane safety requirements that the City put into place in response to a February crane accident in Lower Manhattan.

PLEASANTON, Calif. (October 20, 2016) – IronPlanet announced record-breaking results from its month-long September to remember auction events. Combining both online and on-site auctions, the company sold 9,890 items for more than $99 million in GMV (Gross Merchandise Volume), during 23 auctions in September.

WASHINGTON (October 20, 2016) – The Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation (the Foundation) released the October 2016 Monthly Confidence Index for the Equipment Finance Industry (MCI-EFI).

LONG BEACH, Calif. – Howard CDM’s recently completed project EcoHouse, a daycare and preschool facility that serves infants and children affected by homelessness, has been selected to receive the Merit Award for Sustainable Sites at United States Green Building Council – Los Angeles Chapter’s 6th Annual Sustainable Innovation Awards.

WASHINGTON (October 19, 2016) – For the first time since the summer of 2012, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) posted consecutive months of a decline in demand for design services. As a leading economic indicator of construction activity, the ABI reflects the approximate nine to twelve month lead time between architecture billings and construction spending.

NEW YORK (October 19, 2016) – Dodge Data & Analytics and Autodesk have initiated a collaboration to advance workflow integration and interoperability for design and construction industry professionals.

CLEVELAND, Ohio (October 18, 2016) — TRI (The Refractories Institute) each year awards academic scholarships to exemplary students enrolled in college-level educational programs that relate to refractory sciences. In late September, at the organization’s committee meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, two award recipients were announced: Anna Mattione, from Missouri University of Science and Technology, and Sankalp Kota, from Drexel University.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (October 20, 2016) – Dodge Data & Analytics released its 2017 Dodge Construction Outlook, a mainstay in construction industry forecasting and business planning.

MILWAUKEE (October 18, 2016) – ICUEE, the International Construction and Utility Equipment Exposition, was recently saluted as a Gold 100 trade show, winning top honors as largest biennial exhibition and No. 2 among all United States exhibitions held last year.

WASHINGTON (October 17, 2016) – The American Institute of Architects (AIA) TAP/CCA Innovation Award honors new practices and technologies that will further enable project delivery and enhance data-centric methodologies in the management of buildings for their entire lifecycle, from design, to construction and through operations.  The AIA’s Technology in Architectural

MONTREAL — CM Labs Simulations, developer of Vortex training simulators, announced the availability of the new Vortex Advantage, the latest addition to their construction equipment simulator product line.

The Vortex Advantage has been designed to provide maximum flexibility for training programs of all sizes and budgets, depending on the desired level of immersion and the number of machine simulations required. 

RIDGELAND, Miss. – Butler Snow announced the firm has been ranked as a First Tier Firm nationally in the area of product liability by Benchmark Litigation, and as a Highly Recommended Firm in Mississippi and Tennessee. Ten of its attorneys have also been recognized in the annual rankings.

ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. (October 6, 2016) - Komatsu America Corp. announced the purchase of four branches of Road Machinery, LLC. that will become company-owned facilities under the Komatsu Southwest banner.

WASHINGTON – In an effort to improve communication and collaboration between the concrete and both investment and development communities, Build with Strength, a coalition of the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association, has launched an Investors and Developers Advisory Council.  Jonathan Arnold, president and CEO of Arnold Development and Jack Holland, an investment banker in Kansas City Missouri, will serve as inaugural co-chairman o

Schweiss Doors was named the 2016 recipient of the prestigious "The Best in Ag" award presented by FASTLINE and sponsored by Quality Structures Inc.

The award is designed to bring brand awareness to a wide range of agriculture suppliers, active farmers and manufacturers. The recognition is shared among a strong and growing database of 60,000+ nationwide. 

NATIONAL (October 12, 2016) - In a partnership between global drone leader DJI and technology giant Epson, an optimized version of the DJI GoApp will be available on Epson’s Moverio BT-300 AR glasses.