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Volvo considering sale of Volvo Rents equipment rental business, Bloomberg reports

Volvo considering sale of Volvo Rents equipment rental...

Business

Posted by Wayne Grayson on May 24, 2013

Volvo is considering the sale of its North American construction equipment rental business, according to a new report from Bloomberg. Companies ...

Washington’s I-5 bridge collapse highlights need for infrastructure funding

Washington’s I-5 bridge collapse highlights need...

Business

Posted by Wayne Grayson on May 24, 2013

Thursday night, a truck with an oversized load struck a portion of the I-5 bridge near Seattle, Washington, sending a ...

VIDEO: Amazing footage from the 1946 Indy 500

VIDEO: Amazing footage from the 1946 Indy 500

Construction News

Posted by Wayne Grayson on May 24, 2013

Here's a pretty great way to get the Memorial Day weekend started: how about amazing vintage footage from one of ...

In Moore, just as in Tuscaloosa, the power of “just doing” will be revealed

In Moore, just as in Tuscaloosa, the power of...

Construction Blog

Posted by Tom Jackson on May 24, 2013

When tornados struck Tuscaloosa on April 27, 2011, a spontaneous army of tens of thousands of volunteers fanned out ...

Obama slashes review and approval times for infrastructure projects

Obama slashes review and approval times for...

Business

Posted by Wayne Grayson on May 24, 2013

As he said he would do shortly after his infrastructure-heavy State of the Union address, President Barack Obama has signed ...

Volkswagen to refit late-model diesel vehicles because Americans keep filling them with gas

Volkswagen to refit late-model diesel vehicles because...

Emissions

Posted by Wayne Grayson on May 23, 2013

Volkswagen's Jetta TDI clean diesel model is rated at 42 mpg highway and 30 mpg in the city. Diesel is ...

Women breaking through construction industry’s “concrete ceiling”

Women breaking through construction industry’s...

Workforce

Posted by Wayne Grayson on May 23, 2013

While women still hold the same percentage of the 8.4 million construction jobs in the United StatesĀ as they did in ...

Immigration bill gains Senate committee’s approval, retains limit on construction visas but increases H-1B visas for highly skilled workers

Immigration bill gains Senate committee’s...

Business

Posted by Wayne Grayson on May 23, 2013

With a 13-5 vote Tuesday night, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved an immigration bill that would give 11.5 million immigrants ...

OSHA intends to postpone compliance deadline for new crane operator certification rules to 2017

OSHA intends to postpone compliance deadline for new...

Safety

Posted by Wayne Grayson on May 23, 2013

Setting trusses is considered new construction and since they are not sheet goods or packaged goods this job requires ...

AED and 17 construction industry groups call for House to support approval of Keystone XL pipeline

AED and 17 construction industry groups call for House...

Business

Posted by Wayne Grayson on May 22, 2013

In a letter addressed to Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California, the ...

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