Washington, D.C. (Nov. 27, 2019)—The United States Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Wage and Hour Division (WHD) remind employers to protect worker safety and pay during the upcoming holiday season.

Construction leader AECOM announced in a recent “governance agreement” with investor Starboard Value LLP that Chief Executive Officer and Chairman Michael Burke will retire as soon as the company names a new CEO or until the firm’s 2020 annual meeting in March.

You get a contract! And you get a contract! It’s been a busy couple of weeks in terms of construction contracts. Here are two projects in particular that you should watch:

London, England (Nov. 27, 2019)—Total construction and real-estate industry private equity deals in Q3 2019 worth $2.23 billion were announced in the US, according to GlobalData’s deals database. The value marked an increase of 2876.1% over the previous quarter and a rise of 83.9% when compared with the last four-quarter average of $1.21 billion.

Washington. D.C. (Nov. 19, 2019)—The Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) Greenprint Center for Building Performance has released a new report, Embodied Carbon in Buildings Materials for Real Estate, explaining how reducing embodied carbon in the construction process can save developers money and help mitigate the impacts of climate change. Greenprint is a worldwide alliance of real estate owners, investors and strategic partners committed to improving the environmental performance of the global real estate industry. Through measurement, benchmarking, knowledge sharing and implementation of best practices, Greenprint and its members are striving to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030.