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Chicago-based construction firm celebrating 120th year
The Walsh Group traces its beginnings back 120 years when Matthew Myles Walsh started a carpentry business out of his home in Chicago in 1898. Since then, the company has grown to more than 8,000 employees with 18 regional offices. It is a multi-billion-dollar business and ranked the 11th-largest construction firm in the United States, […]
January 18, 2018
Technology
Trimble plans new building at Colo. campus for 1,100 workers
Trimble has begun expanding its campus in Westminster, Colorado, with a second building that will hold 1,100 workers, the company says. The Colorado campus will hold the largest concentration of Trimble employees and continue to serve as the company’s central business hub for agricultural, construction and geospatial markets. Its headquarters will remain in Sunnyvale, California. […]
October 13, 2017
Roadbuilding
Stronger, longer bridge girders the aim of research collaboration between University of Alabama, ALDOT
More durable and longer bridge girders could spell cheaper construction costs among other benefits, and a few engineering researchers at the University of Alabama are trying to make that a reality. According to a UA news release, researchers are testing longer, stronger giant concrete bridge girders in a lab at the University of Alabama. The […]
September 18, 2015
Business
Housing starts fall 16% in January after major revision to December estimate
Housing starts in the U.S. suffered a large fall in January, according to preliminary data from the Commerce Department. Housing starts were at a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 880,000, 16 percent below the revised December estimate of 1.048 million. The January figure is 2 percent below the January 2013 figure of 915,000. That December figure […]
February 19, 2014
Business
Housing starts fall 10% in December, capping off best year since 2007
Following the largest monthly gain in 24 years in November, housing starts fell back to earth in December. Housing starts were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 999,000 in December, according to data from the Commerce Department. That’s a 10 percent drop from November’s revised estimate of 1.017 million. December’s drop was the largest since […]
January 17, 2014
Construction Equipment
Concrete canvas tent inflates and hardens into permanent structure
This is a development that has great to potential to have far reaching effects across the world. A U.K. company called Concrete Canvas has developed inflatable tents out of their material that harden into permanent structures after sprayed with water. The canvas itself is lightweight and flexible but contains all of the materials that make up concrete. […]
March 14, 2013
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