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Business

California Crackdown

Up in the air? California postpones enforcement of its off-highway emissions rule, leaving contractors wondering what to do next. By Marcia Gruver and Mike Anderson   Editor’s note: This is the first part in a series of articles on California’s off-highway emissions regulations and their potential impact on the rest of the country.   California’s […]

April 3, 2010

Roadbuilding

2009 a difficult year but ‘devastating’ to the construction industry

It’s no secret that it’s rough out there. It’s been that way for a while now. But in the construction industry, we’ve been one of the hardest hit job sectors. While only 5 percent of the U.S. workforce, construction workers shouldered 20 percent of non-farm layoffs last year, Stephen E. Sandherr said in the Associated […]

January 21, 2010

Business

AGC chapters awarded clean diesel grants

Those who got down to business earlier this year filing for federal grants to help waylay the costs of outfitting construction fleets with the latest emissions technology are now being rewarded. The Associated General Contractors of America’s Kentucky and western-Pennsylvania chapters received nearly $3 million in grants from the EPA’s National Clean Diesel Funding Assistance Program, […]

January 11, 2010

Construction Equipment

AGC: Stimulus will fund 650K construction jobs, 300K for materials and equipment

The economic stimulus is supposedly set to fund 650,000 construction jobs and another 300,000 in materials and equipment supply, according to the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC). That’s great news. But at least 1.8 million construction workers are currently jobless and unemployment in the industry had reached 19.2 percent as of January 2009, according […]

January 10, 2010

Roadbuilding

Financial District: Long Tunnel, No Light

Treading water. It was a metaphor raised several times during a gloomy press conference to paint a picture of American transportation contracting companies trying to survive.

December 1, 2009

Safety

Workzone safety: When zero is a good thing

Workzone fatalities have been a problem for a long time as a result of people driving too fast, not carefully enough or otherwise recklessly. And many states have cracked down to make drivers more careful of workers in construction zones. In my home state, there’s a mininum $375 fine. Now the Associated General Contractors of […]

April 7, 2009