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The Construction Financial Management Association (CFMA) joins companies across the U.S. in drawing attention to efforts to ensure workers’ safety and well-being on construction jobsites during National Safety Week, May 1-5, 2017. While jobsite safety often includes discussions around injuries, hazards, incident reporting, and first aid, CFMA has been focused on promoting mental health and…
Builders Mutual, a leading writer of commercial insurance for the construction industry in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic, announces the establishment of the Job-Site Safety Institute (JSI), a nonprofit organization dedicated to conducting safety research for residential and commercial job-sites to produce studies that improve safety and protect lives in Raleigh, NC. The establishment of JSI…
Crowder Construction was recently honored as a winner of the Charlotte Business Journal’s Family Business Awards for family businesses with more than 250 employees. This award honors multi-generational, family-owned businesses in the Charlotte area for overall excellence, innovation, ethics, philanthropy and contribution to the strength of the region.of this project to be September 2018 Read…
Expectations for the construction industry 2017 are less optimistic, but the majority of industrial and commercial construction contractors still expect to experience growth this year, according to the latest Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) Construction Confidence Index (CCI). Although all three diffusion indices in the survey — profit margins, sales and staffing levels—fell by more than five…
The new Durham County Administration Building will be the central location for Durham County’s management and administrative functions. Once home to the Durham County Judicial Building (constructed in 1978) the newly renovated structure will house nine county departments, community meeting spaces, a fitness center, TV studio, and two-ground floor retail tenants. The design had to…
TPM, Inc., a technology company headquartered in Greenville, SC, is one of only 23 Autodesk partners worldwide to receive the new Construction specialization to bring the full suite of BIM 360 product lines to market. Autodesk’s vision is to help customers experience a seamless building process from initial design to construction to ongoing facilities management….
Guardian Fueling Technologies, LLC (GFT) is has announced the acquisition of Alliance Petroleum Services, LLC (APS) in Greensboro, North Carolina. GFT focuses on delivering professional services, innovative fueling equipment solutions, systems design and construction. “GFT remains in growth mode and is actively pursuing strategic opportunities to expand our market leadership position for petroleum equipment, services,…
The former Bay Tree Golf Plantation, which closed in 2006, will soon become one of the area’s premier lifestyle communities. Wakefield Development Company, based in Virginia Beach, Virginia, purchased the property (located off Hwy. 9) in 2007. Plans for development were halted during the recession due to market conditions. In the last two years, Wakefield…
Turner Padget Graham & Laney, P.A. is pleased to announce the Palmetto Propeller initiative designed to help South Carolina start-up and small businesses achieve success by providing needed legal services at no cost. For nearly 90 years, Turner Padget has been serving small businesses in South Carolina, and has been a small business itself. Their…
The following Young Leader Spotlight feature is from the Carolinas AGC. Corey Arledge, Executive Director of Safety with Eldeco, Inc. My decision to work in the field of safety came from a desire to see injuries in the work place stop. I worked as a carpenter prior to getting into safety and quickly realized how dangerous construction…
