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Workforce

What are your favorite sights, smells and sounds of the construction jobsite?

“Sounds of progress and achievement.” That’s how Lou Marraffino—while working Philadelphia-based Urban Engineers’ reconstruction of Interstate 95—described his favorite sounds of the construction jobsite. Recently, UE spent some time asking its workers on various jobsites around Pennsylvania what their favorite sights, smells and sounds on are. The answers vary widely. Some are thoughtful and insightful […]

September 19, 2013

Construction Equipment

Artist sculpts 12-ton “Phoenix” from construction debris

Artist Xu Bing spent 20 years away from his homeland of China, living and working in New York City. However, when he returned, the China he found was completely transformed. Urban landscapes had appeared with gleaming skylines, symbols of the country’s rapid industrial and socioeconomic evolution. Bing decided to visit a construction site to see […]

August 5, 2013

Safety

Workers return to Washington state jobsite after discovery of radioactive soil

Though likely somewhat reluctant, workers returned to a jobsite in Richland, Washington Thursday after radioactive soil was found there. According to the Associated Press, the radioactive soil was found, strangely, under a bird’s nest at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Work was halted on a waste treatment plant being built there. Upon discovering the radioactive soil, […]

June 7, 2013

Business

Construction crew solves the Salem mystery of St. Joseph’s statue

For 64 years people in Salem, Massachusetts wondered “Where did St. Joseph go?” Between 1911 and 1944, a 12-foot-tall statue of St. Joseph stood watch 100 feet above the ground in the edifice of the church in Salem that bore his name, according to The Salem News. Though St. Joseph Church burned down in the […]

May 17, 2013

Workforce

Skilled construction worker shortage already stifling economic recovery

It looks like Executive Editor Tom Jackson’s fear of construction’s current labor shortage stifling the economic recovery is already coming true. According to a recent report from the Associated Press, construction companies across the country say they feel the economy could be doing even better if they could find enough workers. They say they have […]

May 17, 2013

Construction Equipment

Spire-mounted camera captures ascent to the top of the World Trade Center

Nearly two weeks ago, as construction workers looked on with pride, the spire was lifted to the top of the World Trade Center in Manhattan. The building has reached its symbolic height of 1,776 feet and is now the tallest building in the United States and Western Hemisphere. Which is why this video taken from […]

May 15, 2013

Workforce

Lower pay, higher costs, immigration enforcement involved in California construction companies’ struggle to find workers

Same story, different place. Just like their counterparts in Minnesota and other metro areas across the country, construction companies in California, particularly home builders, can’t seem to find enough workers to fill growing demand for work, reports the Los Angeles Times. The main reason for the struggle is the same too. In the wake of […]

May 9, 2013

Safety

Scaffolding failure sends Louisiana construction workers dangling 100 feet in the air before rescued

Three construction workers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana likely have a whole new appreciation for life ropes after a scary incident during an expansion project at a hospital there. While working on the exterior of Our Lady of the Lake Medical Center, the scaffolding the construction workers were on snapped, according to WAFB, sending the men […]

May 6, 2013

Business

Construction jobs limited to 15k visas per year under new guest worker agreement

The path toward a final deal on immigration reform has likely been cleared now that the country’s business and labor unions have reached an agreement on a guest worker program for immigrants. The New York Times reports that on Friday Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York, held a conference call with U.S. Chamber of Commerce President […]

April 1, 2013

Business

Letterman’s Top Ten features “Construction Worker Pet Peeves”

We won’t waste much of your time explaining this one so you can get right to the video. On “The Late Show with David Letterman”, 10 New York City construction workers got the chance to deliver the show’s nightly “Top Ten.” It was a strong list of jokes and we think these ladies and gentlemen […]

March 27, 2013

Workforce

Why construction unions are wrong in fighting immigration reform

Ah politics! Strange bedfellows. Even stranger enemies. One would think the universal brotherhood of union workers would welcome with solidarity the teeming masses from south of the border. But that is certainly not the case if those Hispanic workers have construction skills. Buzzfeed Politics is reporting that the AFL-CIO in the pending immigration bill is […]

March 26, 2013

Workforce

Undocumented workers make up half of Texas’ construction workforce

A report released Thursday alleges that half of the construction workers in Texas are undocumented, aka illegal aliens. Why is nobody surprised? If you drive around Austin and San Antonio as I often do, you’ll see plenty of billboards advertising new homes for $90,000. And Texas governor Rick Perry flaunts the state’s low cost of […]

February 26, 2013