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.