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Bees on backhoe a buzzkill at Toronto construction site

Construction workers at Toronto’s Union Station experienced an odd disruption Wednesday when a colony of urban honey bees swarmed their jobsite, according to The Toronto Star. Thousands of bees swarmed the site, where a revitalization of the century-old Toronto subway station is underway, before settling on a backhoe. Toronto Transit Commission spokesman Brad Ross said […]

June 27, 2013

Business

Builder confidence reaches highest level since 2006

For the first time since April 2006, more U.S. home builders say they view the market  as “good” rather than “poor.” The sentiment comes through the June edition of the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index. The Index’s rating of builder confidence rose eight points in June to a 52. The NAHB says […]

June 20, 2013

Business

Home construction starts up 6.8% in May

After a tumble of 14.8 percent in April, U.S. home construction starts rose 6.8 percent in May, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. In total, home builders began construction on a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 914,000 homes in May. That’s an improvement of 28.6 percent over the same time last year and […]

June 19, 2013

Pickups

Builder Confidence Hits Milestone

Construction Industry Moving Forward   Builder confidence in the market for newly-built single-family homes hit a significant milestone in June, surging eight points to a reading of 52 on the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) released today. Any reading over 50 indicates that more builders view sales […]

June 17, 2013

Construction Equipment

Construction photos of NYC’s Second Avenue Subway are otherworldly

“When you look at my pictures, you do get a sense that you’re in the center of the Earth. Sometimes it’s like another planet.” That’s what Patrick Cashin, a staff photographer for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York, told Flickr when the photo sharing website recently interviewed him for a blog post on the astounding photographs […]

June 17, 2013

Workforce

Sioux Falls women finding work they love in construction industry

After seeing the results of a Pew Research survey saying 40 percent of U.S. moms are now the breadwinners in their households, news station KSFY out of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, did some digging and filed an interesting report about the number of women in the area now doing construction work. KSFY talked to several women […]

June 17, 2013

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Construction on LA’s 405 freeway impacts Jewish community’s observation of Sabbath

Ongoing construction on the 405 Freeway in Los Angeles is impacting the Sabbath activities of the city’s Jewish community, according to an interesting report from the Los Angeles Times. To understand the problem the community faces, it’s helpful to first understand why the roadway under construction is so important to them. The 405, and two other […]

June 17, 2013

Business

Trimble adds weighing capabilities to Connected Site with acquisition of Actronic Technologies

Trimble’s Connected Construction Site will receive a bit of an upgrade thanks to the company’s recent acquisition of Actronic Technologies. Actronic produces weighing technology and payload information systems for construction, aggregate, mining and waste markets. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the acquisition includes Actronic’s Loadrite system, which will add weighing capabilities to […]

June 17, 2013

Business

Recent talks suggest Congress has put transportation funding on the back burner

After attending last week’s Transportation Construction Coalition (TCC) fly-in visit with Congress, John Latta, the editor of our sister site Better Roads, writes that the overall feeling among the contractors and agency officials that were there is that lawmakers do not share their sense of urgency about securing funding for transportation infrastructure. “A common theme they heard […]

June 11, 2013

Construction Equipment

Quick data 6/13: Graders

June 3, 2013

Business

Nonresidential construction index indicates gradual improvement, notes concerns with sequester, labor shortage

The FMI Nonresidential Construction Index has reached the highest mark since its inception in the first quarter of 2009. Released this week, the second quarter 2013 edition of the NRCI reached 60.1. FMI, a management consultant and investment banking provider, surveys a group of panelists each quarter to measure the health of the nonresidential construction […]

May 30, 2013

Business

U.S new-home sales rise; home prices jump to highest level in 7 years

The number of new homes sold in April rose 2.3 percent to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 454,000, the highest mark since the summer of 2008, the Associated Press and CNBC report. Compared to a year ago, new home sales are up 29 percent, according to Commerce Department data. However, the number is still well […]

May 28, 2013