Construction Industry News

This multi-billion-dollar program includes constructing four new jails in the boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx to allow for the city to close its main jail on Rikers Island. NYDDC and AECOM-Hill will manage the design-build construction of the four new facilities.

GlobalData’s Construction Confidence Index (CCI), a barometer of confidence in the global construction industry with regards to growth prospects over the short-term horizon, fell to 63.9 points Q2 2019, down from 64.8 in Q1 2019. Details here. 

Entrepreneurship is a tradition for this San Diego, California, family business celebrating 60 years of business. 

Company that operates arena, baseball complex, convention center and historic theatre in Erie, Pennsylvania wins JLG "Crews Across America" sweepstakes. Details here. 

World of Concrete (WOC) reports that its recently completed space draw for 2020 secured just over 927 exhibitors, booking more than 638,000 net square feet of exhibit space. With 9 months remaining until WOC 2020, organizers are anticipating a robust WOC 2020.

CNH Industrial hosted U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa at the CASE manufacturing facility in Burlington, Iowa, on May 29. The visit included a tour of the plant and a roundtable discussion with employees to address the latest developments in the U.S. agricultural and manufacturing industries.

Bolstered by increasingly strong spending in manufacturing construction, private nonresidential construction spending reached $460 billion in March on a seasonally adjusted, annualized basis. This represented a gain of 2.1% from a year earlier. Manufacturing construction spending was $70.3 billion for the month, up 10.3%.

Water is our most valuable natural resource, with 44% of the United States’ total population relying on groundwater supplies for their drinking water. Population and industrial growth have created increased challenges to maintain, manage and provide adequate clean water sources and made the need for specialized remediation services vital.

CASE Construction Equipmentis partnering with country music star Jon Pardion a series of promotions throughout 2019 and 2020, focused on raising awareness for, and growing interest in, careers in the construction industry. The first promotion includes an exclusive presale opportunity for Pardi’s headlining “Heartache Medication” tour, kicking off October 1 in Nashville, Tennessee. 

Modular manufacturing starts with engineered interior and exterior walls, ceilings, windows and floors being constructed in a manufacturing plant and then transported to a project site where they are assembled and constructed by highly trained and skilled tradespeople.

In the Fox Cities Region (central Wisconsin), 12% of high school students attempted suicide in the past year, and at Appleton East High School, where student enrollment is approximately 1,500, more than 1,049 counselor office visits were documented,and the school experienced a 15% increase in mental health hospitalizations during the 2018/2019 school year alone.

New building technologies promise to increase productivity and conserve resources. Details here. 

As Father’s Day approaches, popular YouTube personalities discuss how their dads influenced their journey to becoming building experts and social media influencers.

NV5 Global Inc., a provider of professional and technical engineering and consulting solutions, has announced that it was awarded a $50 million contract for engineering design services for green infrastructure projects with the New York City Department of Design and Construction’s division of infrastructure. 

Only 4% of federal cancer funding is dedicated to childhood cancer, and CCRF works to fill the gaps by providing the critical funding needed to find safer, more effective therapies for kids battling cancer. Today, more than 15,000 kids and young adults are diagnosed with cancer each year, which is approximately 42 per day. Approximately one in 285 children in the United States will be diagnosed with cancer before their 20thbirthday. 

One of America's most trusted celebrities puts a face on the pipes, wires and cables that make our daily lives possible and the importance of contacting 811 before digging.

Kwame Building Group has received the American Concrete Paving Association “Excellence in Concrete Paving Award” for taxiway and runway rehabilitation work at St. Louis Lambert International Airport. Via their joint venture with HR Green Inc., Kwame provided project management for the $9.7 million, multi-phase project, which included reconstruction of taxiways, known as Sierra and Kilo, and the rehabilitation of runway 12L-30R

Check out Green Builder Media's annual selection of the most innovative, creative, and all-around sustainable products available to the building market.

Chad Latta, of Latta Earthworks LLC in Athens, Ohio, is the winner the JCB ‘Win a Teleskid’ sweepstakes. Latta wins a 12-month lease on a special edition JCB Teleskid compact track loader, plus $5,000 cash.

April new business volume up 11% year-over-year, up 7% month-over-month, and down 5% year-to-date. Details here.