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CARTA and the City of North Charleston, S.C. enlisted Davis & Floyd to provide program management, architecture, landscape architecture, surveying, and civil, electrical, mechanical, and structural engineering services for the North Charleston Transit Center. Located on the site of the former Amtrak train station, the facility is used by several agencies, including CARTA, Amtrak, and…
Last week, ENR Southeast announced the winners of its 2022 Best Projects Regional Awards competition, which had submissions from six states: North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Tennessee. Of the 31 winners in 16 categories, eight were from the Carolinas. Award Winners | South Carolina Harper General Contractors Unity Park in Greenville –…
Sending workers home safely every night is a common goal among construction firms. Founded in 1989 as a safety benchmarking and improvement tool, the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) STEP program has evolved into a world-class safety management system that dramatically improves safety performance among participants regardless of company size or type of work. Participating…
To paraphrase Ray Kinsella from “Field of Dreams,” if you build it, they will come. While the original phrase was about a fictional baseball field and the spirit of baseball legend Shoeless Joe Jackson (or Kinsella’s father, but I digress), it also holds true for your social media platforms. Providing more than a static website,…
Successful construction firms don’t view marketing as an expense, but rather a strategic approach to business. Each year we have the opportunity to refresh how we approach our business, marketplace and clients. A marketing plan is about strategic choices: which markets to target, what services to offer, how to differentiate, how to communicate and how to win….
With online marketing, there’s a debate raging among experts over which strategy is best to grow your construction business. Would SEO or social media marketing be the better option? Often, construction businesses will hire an SEO expert or agency to increase their visibility in the search engines without even thinking about social media and the…
Average costs for U.S. employers that pay for their employees’ health care will increase 6.5 percent to more than $13,800 per employee in 2023, according to Aon (NYSE: AON), a leading global professional services firm. This projection is more than double the 3 percent increase to health care budgets which employers experienced from 2021 to 2022; but is…
Associated Builders and Contractors today released the following statement in response to the publication of a proposed rule, Federal Acquisition Regulation: Use of Project Labor Agreements for Federal Construction Projects, implementing President Biden’s Executive Order 14063, which requires federal construction contracts of $35 million or more to be subjected to controversial project labor agreements. “The Biden administration continues…
The Conference Board Leading Economic Index® (LEI) for the U.S. decreased by 0.4 percent in July 2022 to 116.6 (2016=100), after declining by 0.7 percent in June. The LEI was down by 1.6 percent over the six-month period from January to July 2022, a reversal from its 1.6 percent growth over the previous six months. “The US LEI declined for a…
The chief executive officer of the Associated General Contractors of America, Stephen E. Sandherr, released the following statement in response to the release of new federal rules that will soon require procurement officials to impose project labor agreements for federal construction projects valued at $35 million or more: “Today’s proposed rules requiring procurement officials to impose project…
