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Each week the growing challenge of the construction workforce shortage seems to garner more media attention. On Sunday, CBS featured a story, A New Blueprint for America’s Construction Trades, on the growing challenge facing construction companies in the United States. CBS reported that for every one person entering the industry, five are retiring. CBS’s Mark…
Nonresidential construction spending expanded 0.5 percent in August, totaling $691.8 billion on a seasonally adjusted, annualized basis, according to an analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau by Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC). Though this represents an improvement from July’s total ($688.2 billion), nonresidential spending remains 3.4 percent below its year-ago level and is…
Green construction is rapidly gaining traction among both single family and multifamily home builders, according to new research published in the Green Multifamily and Single Family Homes 2017 SmartMarket Brief. The report is available for free download here. The latest in a series of studies conducted by Dodge Data & Analytics in partnership with the…
Collum’s Lumber Products, LLC, a producer of dimensional lumber and other wood products, today announced the expansion of its Allendale County manufacturing operations. Creating 10 new jobs, the company is investing $2 million to construct a new warehousing facility on the site of its existing state-of-the-art sawmill operation. “We are pleased to be able to…
Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) introduced today the Trimble® T10 tablet, a rugged, high-performance data processing platform suitable for a variety of survey and Geographic Information System (GIS) applications. The Trimble T10 provides the processing power of a laptop computer in tablet form, enhancing efficiencies for geospatial users in the field. The announcement was made today at…
The not seasonally adjusted (NSA) national construction unemployment rate was 4.7 percent in August, down 0.4 percent from a year ago and the lowest August rate on record, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported. Unemployment rates were also down in 35 states on a year-over-year basis, according to an analysis released today by…
Hoping to win one of the largest economic development projects in recent years, North Carolina promised tax breaks and other incentives worth more than $570 million in an attempt to lure the Foxconn electronics plant that landed in Wisconsin. The North Carolina state documents were obtained by the Associated Press. The 20-million-square-foot plant will produce…
Contractors across North Carolina and South Carolina are preparing to address the new silica standards for construction issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The new standard was set to go into effect on September 23, but OSHA recently announced it would delay enforcement. What is the new silica standard for construction? The…
TPM, Inc, a leading 2D and 3D design technology provider, announces the expansion of its Raleigh-Durham, NC team to continue to accelerate growth in Eastern North Carolina and Virginia. Mike Moran has joined the TPM team focused on bringing design technology solutions and Autodesk software to Architects, Engineers, and Contractors across the region. Jeff Brausen…
DUAL Commercial has hired John Mahar as a senior underwriter within its Construction Division. Mahar will be located in DUAL’s new office in Charlotte, NC. Mahar has more than 18 years of experience in the insurance industry with the majority of that experience underwriting casualty products on both an admitted and non-admitted basis.He began his…
