MT. VERNON, Iowa (July 17, 2014) —The Tilt-Up Concrete Association (TCA) has announced the call for entries for the 2014 Alphonse Engelman Safety Awards.
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Recruitment company makes reaching and attracting veterans a priority and helps contractors meet OFCCP veteran recruitment requirements.
DES MOINES, Iowa (July 15, 2014) — BirdDog, a provider of recruitment and applicant tracking solutions (ATS) for the construction and skilled trades industries, has announced new job distribution available with RecruitMilitary, H2H.jobs and ArmedServicesJobs job boards focused on helping veterans reenter the workplace.
Construction software developer will use its GPS product to follow employee's progress in real time during Badwater Ultramarathon.
SUGAR LAND, Texas (July 14, 2014) — Steve Maliszewski, employee of construction software firm HCSS, is set to run one of the toughest foot races on the planet: the grueling 135-mile Badwater Ultramarathon in California taking place July 21-23. To track him along the course, HCSS is installing one of its GPS units—a product that Maliszewski helped design—on his crew’s van to follow his progress in real time.
(July 14, 2014) — On July 9, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved the Workforce Innovation & Opportunity Act (WIOA) (H.R. 803), 415-6. The bill now awaits President Obama’s signature as the Senate passed it at the end of June.
WASHINGTON (July 14, 2014) — The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has agreed to support a new performance-based guide developed by the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS).
The National Performance-Based Design Guide (NPBDG) is the first broad-reaching performance-based tool for use by facility owners and building industry professionals.
Dire States Tour heads to Texas to promote ballot initiative that would pump an estimated $1.4 billion annually into the Texas State Highway Fund.
RACINE, Wis. (July 11, 2014) — CASE Construction Equipment partnered with the Texas Good Roads and Transportation Association and ASCO Equipment to bring its Dire States initiative to Texas in support of Proposition 1 (the Texas Transportation Funding Amendment).
(July 4, 2014) — On July 1, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx sent letters to state transportation departments and transit agencies outlining steps the Department of Transportation will soon be forced to take in order to manage the impending insolvency of the Highway Trust Fund.
Despite recent gains, planned federal transportation spending cuts in August threaten to undermine sector's "uneven" recovery.
(July 3, 2014) — Construction employers added 6,000 workers to payrolls in June as the industry's unemployment rate dropped to 8.2 percent, its lowest June level in six years, according to an analysis of new government data by the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC). Association officials cautioned, however, that recent employment gains could be undermined when the federal government begins scaling back transportation investments in August.
LAS VEGAS (July 2, 2014) — R&O Construction is giving back in a big way, joining a growing number of businesses that support Las Vegas’ global economic development efforts.
MENLO PARK, Calif. (July 2, 2014) — With pockets of unemployment still at historic levels in some neighborhoods in Silicon Valley, a new software construction management company in North America is partnering with JobTrain, an almost 50-year-old Menlo Park nonprofit with an established track record for teaching job skills and life skills.
Gains in private nonresidential and public construction offset housing dip.
(July 1, 2014) — Total construction spending edged higher for the third straight month in May, as solid increases in private nonresidential and public construction outweighed a downturn in residential projects, according to an analysis of new Census Bureau data by the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC).
PRINCETON, N.J. (June 30, 2014) — The Institute of Certified Construction Industry Financial Professionals (ICCIFP) has achieved accreditation from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) for the Certified Construction Industry Financial Professional (CCIFP) designation.
A landmark AIA-sponsored study investigates the factors that are preventing the design and construction industry from fully capitalizing on specific healthy building investments.
CHICAGO (June 26, 2014) — The critical connection between a healthy building environment and patient health is often missed by the one group of professionals who may matter most—physicians. This data is part of a new SmartMarket report by McGraw Hill Construction sponsored by the American Institute of Architects (AIA), United Technologies Corp. and other partners.
The federal highway program's looming collapse threatens thousands of jobs within the construction industry.
WASHINGTON (June 25, 2014) — The crisis facing the federal highway program threatens to take a massive human and economic toll on the construction equipment industry, Associated Equipment Distributors (AED) 2014 Chairman Tim Watters said last week on Capitol Hill.
KIRKLAND, Washington (June 24) — Jobaline.com, a mobile and bilingual hourly-jobs marketplace, has achieved Oracle Validated Integration with Oracle Taleo Business Edition Cloud Service. Jobaline.com helps more than 75 million hourly workers in the U.S. find and apply for jobs from computers, tablets or phone.
(June 23, 2014) — KOBELCO Construction Machinery USA, a Houston-based heavy equipment manufacturer, presented a check of nearly $120,000 to the Wounded Warrior Project (WWP). A long-supporter of the military, KOBELCO was pleased to make this presentation to the WWP in Houston.
WASHINGTON (June 20, 2014) — The Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation (the Foundation) has released the June 2014 Monthly Confidence Index for the Equipment Finance Industry (MCI-EFI).
Nevada and California claim the largest 12-month gains, while West Virginia and New Jersey show the largest annual declines.
(June 20, 2014) — Construction firms added jobs in 40 states and the District of Columbia during the past 12 months and in 30 states and D.C. between April and May, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) of Labor Department data. Association officials said the employment gains help, but that construction employment remains below peak levels in every state and the District of Columbia, except North Dakota.
DALLAS, Texas (June 19, 2014) — Hanley Wood Exhibitions reports that its recently completed space draw for World of Concrete 2015 secured 875 exhibitors, booking more than 550,000 net square feet of space. With seven months remaining until the show opens, organizers are anticipating significant growth over World of Concrete 2014, the 40th anniversary of the event.
Report ranks California, New York and Texas as the top states for LEED-certified homes.
WASHINGTON (June 19, 2014) — The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) now estimates that there are as many as 150,000 LEED-certified green housing units worldwide, a number that more than doubled between 2011 and 2012 and continues to grow steadily, according to the organization’s LEED in Motion: Residential report released today.