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Business

Construction spending falls 0.6% in July

A decline in nonresidential brought down total U.S. construction spending in July. Total spending dipped 0.6 percent from June to $1.2 trillion but remains up 1.8 percent over the July 2016 total. Total nonresidential spending dropped 1.7 percent in July to $688 billion but is down 4.3 percent from the year-ago total. Top percentage declines […]

September 6, 2017

Business

Construction adds 28,000 jobs in August

The construction industry added its third largest monthly jobs total of the year in August with a gain of 28,000 jobs. The new jobs bring total U.S. construction employment to 6.918 million Americans, according to preliminary data from the Labor Department. The August jobs report also brought a revision to the July jobs total. July employment […]

September 1, 2017

Business

Mont. construction employee charged with embezzling $218k in rental scheme

A former division head of a Montana construction office has been charged with embezzling $218,000 from the company, according to the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. A sheriff’s investigation alleges that Kirk Hogan, who was the civil division head for Dick Anderson Construction’s Bozeman office, was renting construction equipment he owned to Anderson and pocketing rent on […]

August 31, 2017

Workforce

70% of contractors report hiring difficulties; Harvey’s damage likely to make it worse

Seventy percent of construction contractors in the United State report having a hard time finding hourly craft workers, and more than 35 percent are having a hard time hiring salaried office and field employees, according to a study released August 29 by the Association of General Contractors of America and Autodesk. The latest figure […]

August 29, 2017

Roadbuilding

Fluor, Lane contracted for privately-funded Texas bullet train, one of the largest civil projects in U.S. history

Texas Central, an investor-owned railroad company, has selected Fluor and The Lane Construction Corporation for the construction planning, cost estimates and other engineering activities of a bullet train linking Houston to the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area. When complete, the train will make the 240-mile trip in 90 minutes with a midway stop in the Brazos […]

August 15, 2017

Driver/operator coaching/training

AGC of North Dakota awards scholarships to students in construction programs

The Associated General Contractors of North Dakota‘s (AGCND) Education Committee awarded 32 scholarships totaling more than $57,000 for the 2017-2018 school year to outstanding students enrolled in North Dakota post-secondary construction programs, The Jamestown Sun reports. The following students from the Jamestown area received scholarships: Michael Kelly — North Dakota State University, $1,500 Diederich Scholarship; Nicholas […]

August 14, 2017

Business

Construction adds 6,000 jobs in July

The U.S. construction industry added jobs for a third straight month in July, according to preliminary data from the Labor Department. Construction added 6,000 jobs, bringing the industry’s total employment to 6.899 million Americans. The July report also brought revisions to June’s employment figure. June employment was revised downward from the previously reported 6.896 million […]

August 7, 2017

Business

EPA seeks comments on proposed WOTUS rule withdrawal

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed a rule to withdraw the 2015 Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule that defines what streams, wetlands and other wet areas are controlled by the federal government and subject to the permitting requirements of the Clean Water Act. This is the first […]

August 7, 2017

Business

Nonresidential sends construction spending down 1.3% in June

Decreases in spending on apartment homes and nonresidential projects were the difference in June’s construction spending report, as total U.S. spending fell 1.3 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1.205 trillion. Despite the monthly drop, the annual rate remains 1.6 percent above the June 2016 rate. Total residential spending fell 0.3 percent in […]

August 3, 2017

Business

Cemex gets 10-year lease for vital Port of Redwood City terminal

The Redwood City Port Commission approved a new 10-year-lease for cement, concrete and aggregate maker Cemex‘s 8.2-acre marine terminal in California, with an option to extend the lease for another 10 years, The Daily Journal reports. Cemex has used the terminal to import nearly 4 million metric tons of sand and aggregates from Canada over the […]

July 28, 2017

Business

Home starts up, builder confidence down with mounting concerns over lumber costs

The start of construction on new homes in the U.S. rose 8.3 percent during the month of June on solid gains from both the single-family and multi-family markets. And though demand for new homes is still strong, builders say the rising cost of materials has them concerned. Home starts rose to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate […]

July 21, 2017

Business

Sustaining fourth-generation construction business required many late nights at Livengood Excavators

About five years ago, Leo Livengood got a phone call from a former client. The call was from the second generation of a family he and his father had worked with, and they had a question: Would Livengood Excavators do the site work on a new drive-in theater the family was building, which was going […]

July 14, 2017