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).
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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.
Maracanã, South America’s largest stadium and the facility that will host the final World Cup game, is included in the list of structures that have achieved this distinction.
WASHINGTON (June 17, 2014) — With all eyes on the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) is proud of the fact that six World Cup stadiums have achieved LEED certification, including South America’s largest stadium, Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro.
FARGO, N.D. (June 13, 2014) — The employees of Bobcat Company and Doosan took part in “Doosan Day of Caring,” a company-wide volunteer effort to celebrate Doosan’s Foundation Day and global volunteer week during the month of June in various Bobcat and Doosan facility locations around the U.S.
COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (June 12, 2014) — Newsweek Green Rankings, one of the world’s foremost corporate environmental standings, recently ranked Atlas Copco seventh among the 500 largest publicly traded, global companies by market capitalization.
The National Construction Association joins Hiring Our Heroes program to give members of the Associated General Contractors of America access to veterans job fairs and other resources designed to make hiring heroes easier.
(June 10, 2014) — The Associated General Contractors of America is joining the national Hiring Our Heroes program as part of the construction industry’s effort to add 100,000 veterans during the next five years. The new partnership will make it easier for construction contractors to find, recruit and hire veterans, association officials said.
Partnership will strengthen support of federal contractor compliance efforts.
DES MOINES, Iowa (June 10, 2014) — BirdDog, a provider of recruitment and applicant tracking solutions (ATS) for the construction and skilled trades industries, has announced a strategic partnership with OutSolve, a national service provider of affirmative action plans and Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) compliance solutions.
CLEARWATER, Fla. (June 9, 2014) — After a recession-imposed seven years of dwindling construction job opportunities, things are brightening on the construction front. Chief economist of the Associated General Contractors of America (ACG) Ken Simonson reported that the construction industry can expect an uptick of 15 percent in the job outlook for 2014.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (June 9, 2014)— Cahaba Media Group is happy to announce that Kathryn Wells has assumed the role of editor of the company’s Construction Business Owner (CBO) magazine.
ARLINGTON, Va. (June 6, 2014) — Construction employers added 6,000 workers to payrolls in May as the industry’s unemployment rate dropped to 8.6 percent, its lowest level for that month in six years, according to an analysis of new government data by the Associated General Contractors of America.
RALEIGH, N.C. (June 6, 2014) — FMI, a provider of management consulting and investment banking to the engineering and construction industry, released its Q2-2014 Construction Outlook. The forecast shows cautiously optimistic growth, as the forecast has been lowered a percent since the Q1-2014 Outlook. Construction-put-in-place for 2014 is now predicted to increase 7 percent over 2013 levels.
DALLAS, Texas (May 30, 2014) — Jackie James, director of World of Concrete, will travel to Toronto in late June to participate in a trade mission hosted by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA). The primary goal of the mission is to increase attendees and exhibitors from Canada at World of Concrete and promote the use of concrete and masonry in the commercial construction industries.
ITASCA, Ill. (May 28, 2014) — June is National Safety Month, and the National Safety Council is calling on Americans to take notice of the fifth* leading cause of death–unintentional injuries. Every four minutes, someone in the U.S dies from an unintentional injury. That’s 120,000 people a year. Sixty-seven percent** of all injury-related deaths in the U.S. are due to unintentional causes, compared to just 9 percent to homicide.
Safety program will work collaboratively with OSHA’s national safety stand-down to prevent falling hazards in construction.
RED WING, Minn. (May 28, 2014) — Capital Safety, a manufacturer of fall protection equipment for construction and other high-risk fields, has launched its "Every Worker, Every Time" effort, a national five-day fall protection and training program focused on the company’s mission to bring every worker at height home safely, every workday. The initiative will work hand in hand with OSHA’s National Fall Prevention Stand-Down, June 2-6, by visiting construction sites across the U.S.
Joint venture team includes Brasfield & Gorrie, Mortenson Construction, Barton Malow Company and New South Construction.
ATLANTA (May 27, 2014) — The Cobb County Board of Commissioners voted this evening to approve American Builders 2017 as the construction manager at risk (construction manager) to oversee the construction of the new Atlanta Braves ballpark, which is scheduled to open in early 2017.
As an active member of the National Demolition Association's Construction Industry Advisory Council, Cherry Companies works with leading universities such as Texas A&M and Purdue to encourage students to consider careers in the demolition industry.
HOUSTON, Texas (May 27, 2014) — A contingent of construction science majors from Texas A&M University traveled from the classroom to the work site and got a close-up look at one of the nation’s leading demolition and recycling operations. Cherry Companies of Houston, a member of the National Demolition Association (NDA)’s Construction Industry Advisory Council (CIAC), served as host to the aspiring demolition and construction industry professionals.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (May 23, 2014) — Using the doctrine of equitable subrogation to establish lender priority over mechanic’s liens would “completely defeat” the legislative intent behind mechanic’s liens statutes and “improperly shift the known and assumed risks” from construction project owners and lenders to contractors and subcontractors, the American Subcontractors Association (ASA) and ASA of Arizona told the Supreme Court of Arizona.