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The Fourth Annual Chix Dig It — Celebrating Women in Construction luncheon, presented by title sponsor SAS, was held on June 20, 2019, at Prestonwood Country Club in Cary, N.C. This much anticipated event drew over 200 attendees – a combination of women and men representing a wide variety of organizations with ties to the architecture, engineering…
Build Your Career (BYC), a Carolinas AGC (CAGC) initiative, is partnering with the REEMERGE prison reintegration program — a strategic solution geared toward providing educational and employment opportunities to formerly incarcerated individuals in the Midlands, South Carolina area. The program is in direct partnership with SCWorks and is funded by a U.S. Department of Commerce…
Construction input prices decreased 1.3% on both a monthly and yearly basis in June, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Producer Price Index data released today. This is the first time in nearly three years that input prices have fallen on a year-over-year basis. Overall, nonresidential construction…
The comprehensive restoration of York County Courthouse was recognized with an Honor Award by Preservation South Carolina, the SC Department of Archives and History, and the Office of the Governor. The award recognizes the exceptional efforts employed by the County to restore this circa 1914 public building which is listed on the National Register of…
Contractors report increasing ability to gather and analyze data helps improve project outcomes like budget, productivity and profitability A new report released today by Dodge Data & Analytics, in collaboration with construction management software provider Viewpoint, a Trimble company, reveals a sea change in the way project data is gathered and analyzed across the construction industry—change that…
Charleston, SC — SouthCon Building Group, a full-service general contractor based in Mount Pleasant, has hired Mark Jordan as a project superintendent. With a construction industry career spanning more than 40 years — including over 25 years of federal service — Jordan has solid experience with both commercial and government projects in the Carolinas and…
A project deliverable is something that is produced or provided to help achieve a specific objective. To be a deliverable, the output must be both within the scope and the result of deliberate work. Construction project deliverables can be either large or small–anything from an entire building to a single piece of paperwork. Each project has many…
Four times per year A M King’s team in Greenville, S.C. meets in the spacious kitchen at the Ronald McDonald House (RMH). They don’t come empty handed. On a recent Friday night, they brought ground beef, salsa and chocolate chips, among many other items. Their mission? Prepare a delicious taco bar, complete with cilantro-lime rice, watermelon,…
U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that theFederal Aviation Administration(FAA) will award $477 million in airport infrastructure grants, the third allotment of the total $3.18 billion inAirport Improvement Program(AIP) funding for airports across the United States. This significant investment in airport improvements in North Carolina will fund construction and rehabilitation projects…
If you’ve worked in the construction, it’s likely you’ve encountered RFP vs RFI moments. An RFI, or request for information, is a preliminary document to get general information from potential vendors, while an RFP, or request for proposal, is a document a company requests from vendors to get an overview of offerings and costs for a…
