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Association Management Group, Inc. (AMG) has announced that it is co-sponsoring the 2017 Builders Classic Golf Tournament for the North Carolina Home Builders Association (NC HBA) members and their guests on Wednesday, April 19. The NC HBA tournament will be held in Raleigh, NC and supports the NC Home Builders Educational and Charitable Foundation, which provides…
Spartanburg, SC-based Tindall Corporation was awarded the Virginia American Concrete Institute (ACI) 2016 award for Stone Brewery. Located in Richmond, Virginia, Stone Brewery is a 220,000-square foot facility that produces 600,000 barrels of craft beer per year. By using precast panel construction for the exterior walls, the team was able to erect the steel and…
Each May construction firms across the Carolinas voluntarily participate in Safety Week — a national event created to raise awareness about jobsite safety. Safety Week 2017 is scheduled to run from Monday, May 1 to Friday, May 5. This year’s Safety Week is timed to align with OSHA’s 4th Annual National Safety Stand-Down to Prevent…
More solar jobs are coming to South Carolina according to HCS Renewable Energy, LLC a national renewable energy company headquartered in Austin, TX. HCS announced that it has joined the South Carolina Solar Business Alliance serving as primary staffing subcontractor on utility-scale solar projects nationwide. The South Carolina Solar Business Alliance (SBA) is the voice of…
East Carolina University celebrated the ribbon-cutting for the new Health Sciences Campus Student Center in Greenville, North Carolina. Rodgers Builder provided construction management services for the 71,000-square-foot facility, which is the first stand-alone student center on a medical campus in North Carolina. Students, faculty, staff and community members attended the ceremony and celebrated the newest addition to…
To keep up with industry trends and important court decisions, every 10 years AIA Contract Documents are reviewed and updated. This year, the new revised core set of AIA contracts and forms will be released at AIA Conference on Architecture 2017 (A’17). Changes to the 2017 documents that will affect architects include a single Sustainable…
Commercial construction firm Choate Construction Company has added a new interior division in Raleigh. Jim Baker will lead the Choate Interior Construction. The firm has completed several interior construction projects throughout the Triangle area including projects for Network Appliance, Qlik Technologies, Duke Medicine, UNC Hospitals, as well as numerous renovations within the historic Carolina Inn. “In the…
Allendale County will be the new home for Thunderbolt Biomass, Inc., a manufacturer of wood pellets from sawmill residuals. The company will be investing $6 million, and creating 35 new jobs, as it building new processing operations in Allendale County. The company is planning to . “Thunderbolt Biomass is very pleased to announce its plans for…
A new class of construction technology was introduced today by Procore Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based applications for construction. Procore Construction OS, a cohesive platform that connects people, applications, and devices to create a frictionless construction process. Construction OS is designed to serve users and improve the build process through a variety of…
B2W Software hosted its largest User Conference in Las Vegas. The company, a provider of heavy civil construction management software, used the 16th annual conference to provide 70 hours of training sessions, best-practice networking opportunities, and one-on-one consultations. Guest speakers included infrastructure policy and financing expert Jack Basso and former Heisman Trophy winner and NFL star Herschel…
