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The Carolinas AGC announced the CAGC Class of 2019 Top Young Leader winners. The 2019 winners will be honored at the 2019 Summer Summit & Expo and they will be formally induct them into the Carolinas AGC Top Young Leader class. There will be an all attendees ceremony held the morning of Saturday, July 27…
CarolinaPower’s Richie Seely and Branden Panausuia placed in the 2019 Apprenticeship Skills Competition hosted this spring by Charleston’s Trident Technical College. Seely took second place in the First-Year Apprentices division while Punausuia came in third among Second-Year Apprentices. The 2019 Apprenticeship Skills competition was part of the annual Electricians Fair and Career Day jointly sponsored…
FMI Corporation, the leading provider of management consulting and investment banking services in the built environment, is pleased to announce the introduction of the new Benchmark Tool as part the FMI Compensation platform, a proprietary industry compensation platform providing data on total rewards compensation and benefits across the industry. Retaining top talent has been and…
According to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data released today, national nonresidential construction spending declined 0.3% in March 2019. On a seasonally adjusted, annualized basis, nonresidential spending totaled $775.2 billion for the month, which represents a 4.8% increase compared to the same time last year. Private nonresidential construction spending rose 0.5%…
Charleston, S.C. – The National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) Palmetto Chapter of South Carolina #385, the newest chapter in the South Atlantic Region of NAWIC, had a great showing at the Region’s Spring Forum in Charlotte on April 13 and 14. The chapter was awarded first place for their Women in Construction (WIC)…
Magnus Development Partners recently broke ground on the fourth speculative development in the Lexington County Industrial Park in West Columbia, South Carolina. Midway Logistics IV is the only speculative industrial building offering up to 200,000 square feet of available space in central South Carolina and is expected to quickly become fully leased. Colliers International |…
Duke Energy announcedit is awarding $3.2 million in grants to support 131 innovative K-12 education programs across the communities served by the company. “Bright futures begin in the classroom, and every child deserves a fair chance at academic success,” said Cari Boyce, president of the Duke Energy Foundation. “The grants we are making today are…
Duke Energy continues to generate cleaner energy at prices below the national average for its 7.7 million residential, commercial and industrial customers. Those facts were spelled out today in the company’s 13th annual Sustainability Report – a report card on the company’s progress at meeting its sustainability goals. The report can be found here –…
GREENVILLE, S.C. – (April 5, 2019) – THS Constructors, Inc., one of the Southeast’s leading design-build, construction management, and general contracting companies, today announced it was selected by Marlboro Development to construct the 125,000 square-foot buildout of a new facility in Greenville County. THS and Marlboro Development are delivering the new facility for Multi-Pack, currently located…
This month, a new, modern hotel in Orangeburg is accepting guests. Tru by Hilton® Orangeburg is located at 739 Citadel Road, just off I-26 and I-95. The brand offers “minimalist rooms, bright bathrooms, and hardwood-like floors.” The exterior finish of the 44,116-square-foot, four-story hotel is dryvit exterior insulation finishing system or “EFIS” with specific colors…
