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Walbridge announced that it has promoted Chris Morgan to Vice President and General Manager of Walbridge Southeast. He was previously Assistant V.P. and General Manager of the Southeast office. Morgan started with Walbridge in 1999 and has experience managing the engineering, construction and operations of facilities, environmental systems and industrial processes. His work experience has included…
Trane, a leading global provider of indoor comfort systems and services and a brand of Ingersoll Rand, is expanding its existing Richland County operations. The business is projected to invest $96 million and create 700 new jobs to increase its overall flexibility in line with business growth. “We are pleased to extend our commitment to…
Charlotte, NC-based Nucor Corporation (NYSE: NUE) announced today that it has agreed to acquire St. Louis Cold Drawn, Inc., a manufacturer of cold drawn rounds, hexagons, squares, and special sections that mainly serve the U.S. and Mexican automotive and industrial markets. “This acquisition fits with our planned growth strategy by expanding Nucor’s position as the…
Construction input prices increased 0.3 percent in July and are up 3 percent on a year-over-year basis, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) analysis of data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Nonresidential construction input prices were in line with overall industry dynamics, increasing 0.3 percent for the month and 2.7…
Richland County, SC will be home to a new expansion project for an existing manufacturer. Trane, a leading global provider of indoor comfort systems and services and a brand of Ingersoll Rand, is expanding its existing operations. The business is projected to invest $96 million and create 700 new jobs to increase its overall flexibility…
Bonafide Kayaks, a manufacturer and producer of fishing kayaks, is launching new manufacturing operations in Greenville, SC. The company is investing $2 million to create 76 new jobs over the next three years. “We looked long and hard for the best place to set up our manufacturing operations, and Greenville, S.C. offers everything we were…
Spartanburg, SC — Jeff Newsome has joined Waldrop Mechanical Services as an estimator. In this role, Newsome is responsible for providing construction estimates, and supporting other preconstruction activities to support business development activities for Waldrop’s new construction and renovation projects in the commercial, institutional, industrial and healthcare sectors. Newsome comes to Waldrop with 20 years of…
Global pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is expanding its vaccine-manufacturing plant in Sanford, N.C., creating 40 new jobs there as the company prepares to produce new gene therapies built upon a technology first developed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Lee County expansion’s focus on gene therapy involves a potentially transformational technology for…
The Associated Builders and Contractors of the Carolinas (ABCC) recently held their annual Carolinas Construction Conference in Charleston, SC. The event was held at the Charleston Doubletree and was attended by over 300 professionals from the construction industry. “The Carolinas Construction Conference is the one and only conference in the Carolinas that brings the entire…
The Dodge Momentum Index fell in July, dropping 3.3% to 135.0 (2000=100) from its revised June reading of 139.6. The Momentum Index is a monthly measure of the first (or initial) report for nonresidential building projects in planning, which have been shown to lead construction spending for nonresidential buildings by a full year. The move…
