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Sentinel’s 2019 Insurance Market Review and Forecast reveals an industry grappling with an increasingly complex array of risks, uncertainty over integration of new technologies, a continual reshuffling of metaphorical chairs amid mergers and acquisitions, and a growing realization among carriers that they can no longer count on cyclical shifts in the market to deliver the…
For the eighth consecutive year, construction industry executives say they feel optimistic about the year ahead for their business sector, according to the 43rd Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) Construction Industry Forecast released today. The 2019 forecast reveals sustained confidence for the industry and expectations that expansion is more likely than contraction. The results are a tempered…
Carolinas AGC’s (CAGC) Leslie Bomar Clark, Director, South Carolina Government Relations & Divisions, was honored last month with the prestigious SIR Award (Skill, Integrity and Responsibility). The award was presented by the Columbia Contractors Association, a local chapter of Associated General Contractors (AGC). The SIR Award is the highest award given by the AGC to…
Clemson University announced on February 28, 2019, that the University’s online master’s program for Construction Science and Management (MCSM) was recognized by the website Online Masters as the 12th best Construction Management program in the country. “We are pleased our online master’s is widely regarded as one of the country’s best for students who are looking for unique ways to…
This press release has been updated. It previously stated that nonresidential structures expanded at a 6.2 percent annual rate in the fourth quarter, but it was the broader nonresidential investment category that expanded at that rate. Nonresidential investment in structures declined at a 4.2 percent annual rate in the fourth quarter. The U.S. economy grew…
Greenville, S.C. – THS Constructors, Inc., one of the Southeast’s leading design-build and contracting companies, recently announced the completion and grand opening for the new Jonas T. Kennedy Health and Wellness Complex for Claflin University in Orangeburg, S.C. The new Health and Wellness Complex is a two-story, 34,744-square-foot, building that includes a full-size gymnasium, a…
Columbia, S.C.— On Wednesday, February 20, Mashburn Construction celebrated three of their recent projects being recognized at the 5th Annual Columbia Impact Awards hosted by the Columbia Chamber of Commerce. Experience Columbia SC, Hall’s Chophouse, and Hotel Trundle are three of the five to receive the Golden Nail Award in one of the five areas of recognition. The…
NAWIC Charlotte (Chapter 121) has a wide variety of events planned for 2019’s Women in Construction (WIC) Week, a national celebration that runs from Sunday, March 3 through Saturday, March 9. The theme for this year’s WIC Week theme is “Be the Power in Your Success.” Join NAWIC Charlotte on Sunday at 5 p.m. for…
Last year, Career Technical Education (CTE) was a major priority on the federal level, with the enactment of the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (Perkins V), and on the state level, with 42 states and Washington, D.C. enacting a total of 146 policies supporting CTE. Today, the Association for Career…
Most of us love the job. Sure, not every day. We have good days and bad days, but by and large we derive a great deal of satisfaction from solving the various problems large and small that are part of a normal day. We are field people, who enjoy being in the field, in the…
