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Ben Lehnerer has been named 2021 Chair for the Upstate regional leadership council of Associated Builders and Contractors of the Carolinas (ABC Carolinas). Lehnerer is a project manager with Carolinas-based A M King, an Integrated Design-Build firm with an established presence in the Upstate. Lehnerer has been with A M King’s Greenville office for nearly…
North Carolina has been named 2020 State of the Year by Business Facilities magazine, a title that recognizes the state’s success in winning projects that create capital investment and new jobs. This marks the first time North Carolina has earned the magazine’s top honor, bestowed annually since 2007. “North Carolina is leveraging its advantages ― including a…
The Blue Book Network Velocity Index climbed 13.1% in December to 113.3 (December 2018 = 100). The increase reverses a 2-month decline, recovering from a revised 100.2 in November. The Blue Book Network Velocity Index is a measure of month-to-month changes in bidding activity in The Blue Book Network, accounting for seasonality, providing a leading…
TOLEDO, Ohio, January 14, 2021 – SSOE Group (www.ssoe.com), a global project delivery firm for architecture, engineering, and construction management, announced today the appointment of six new Principals as a result of their recent acquisition of Stevens & Wilkinson (S&W), a 100-year-old architecture, engineering, and interior design firm with offices in Atlanta, Georgia and Columbia, South Carolina. The…
After a rough 2020, we’ve learned to adapt the hiring process. There are new hiring techniques, new interviewing processes, and changes in onboarding and day-to-day work. We’re here to talk about the best staffing practices for 2021. 1) Rethink the Resume If you’re truly looking for the best candidate for the job, you need to…
Balfour Beatty has been awarded $42 million to deliver Morrison Yard, a new 10-story Class A office space located in downtown Charleston. KeithCorp and Origin Development Partners have selected Balfour Beatty to provide preconstruction and construction management services to oversee the completion of a premier officer tower for future tenants at the foot of the…
“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” Lou Holtz While this quote may seem like a cliché, it captures how Carolinas AGC has reinvented itself over the past year. None of us could have predicted or expected the challenges we would see in 2020. A few short…
Melvin C. Williams, F.SAME, FACEC, Vice President and Senior Business Developer with S&ME has been named Vice Chair-Elect for the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) and will be sworn in at ACEC’s Annual Conference in April. As Vice Chair of ACEC, Williams will serve on the ACEC Board of Directors and Executive Committee for…
Last month, Moseley Architects announced plans to merge with Charleston-based architecture firm Cummings & McCrady. The agreement will unite one of the Mid-Atlantic’s highest ranking architecture and engineering firms with one of the Southeast’s oldest architecture firms. Effective January 1, 2021, the merged firms became known as Moseley Architects. The firm has four locations in…
The late, great NC Senate leader Marc Basnight had a special fondness for bridges. “Bridges bring people together. They never divide,” he wrote for a dedication in 2019 of a 2.8-mile, $254 million bridge over Oregon Inlet named for him. Sen. Basnight, who died in December after a long battle with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease),…
