With a $2 trillion spending proposal that dwarfs both the New Deal and the build-out of the American interstate highway system, President Joe Biden provided long-awaited details for a massive infrastructure plan that touches on everything from airports to highways, clean drinking water to revamped electric grids, school construction to public transit and clean energy to bolstered broadband deployment.

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Building a fully automated grocery store is certainly an eye-catching idea right now, but it’s also prohibitively expensive for most startups.

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• A high-speed rail project in the U.K. is piloting the use of worn-out wind turbine blades to reinforce concrete, according to a press release from the joint venture constructing the project.

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• The National Institute of Building Sciences has announced that Salla Eckhardt, Microsoft’s director of transformation services, will serve as chair of the National BIM Program Steering Committee.

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• Taking the final steps to bring its books back into compliance after accounting irregularities forced it to restate its financials going back to 2017 while voicing optimism that the outlook is improving quickly in 2021, Granite Construction reported fourth quarter 2020 revenue of $945.6 million, up 6.8% from $885.6 million a year earlier, and full year 2020 sales of $3.6 billion, an increase of 3.4% from the $3.4 billion it took in for all of 2019.

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• Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg laid out the infrastructure priorities of President Joe Biden's administration for the House Committee Transportation and Infrastructure last week and told lawmakers that the $11.6 billion Hudson River Tunnel replacement and repair project between New York and New Jersey will be a priority.

As the COVID-19 vaccine rollout continues across the country, some states and other jurisdictions are making them available to specific groups of essential workers, including construction.

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• The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority has awarded a combined $133.5 million via pre-development agreements to two private sector teams for the $9.5 billion Sepulveda Transit Corridor Project in a move it says is a first-of-its-kind public-private model.

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With nearly $190.5 billion earmarked for helping schools cope with the ramifications of the novel coronavirus pandemic, some leaders are eyeing the use of those funds for related school construction projects.

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• Shortly after being confirmed as secretary of labor on March 22, Marty Walsh highlighted a number of issues that he sees as critical priorities for the American workforce, including making sure workers feel safe on the job, revisiting the need for an emergency temporary standard for COVID-19, putting inspectors out in force on worksites, getting women back to columbus oh dump truck company and rebuilding the middle class through union membership.

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• Miami Mayor Francis Suarez has said that he wants to use federal money to construct a potential Boring Co.

As spring homebuying season revs up, a new analysis by Realtor.com highlights the 10 U.S. cities poised to see the most residential construction activity this year.

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• Contractors north of the border are looking to give back to workers in the hard-hit restaurant sector and help them recover from the negative economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, one meal at a time.

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• The Senate on Thursday passed, by a 92-7 vote, a bill that would extend the deadline for Paycheck Protection Program applications for another two months to May 31.

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• Construction companies will need to hire at least 430,000 more workers this year than they employed in 2020, according to an average-growth analysis of U.S.

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• The Architecture Billings Index, seen as an indicator of future construction spending, reached its first positive mark since February 2020, according to a new report from the American Institute of Architects.

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• The world’s first tunnel for large ships has been greenlighted by Norway’s Ministry of Transport and Communications and will be put out to bid soon, according to the Norwegian Coastal Administration.

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• Chevron has announced that it will no longer invest additional funds into the Kitimat LNG project in British Columbia.

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• The New York City Department of Buildings is piloting a remote video inspection program using standard digital video technology, so that inspectors will not need to be physically present.

Earlier this month, the American Society of Civil Engineers designated 13 new projects as Infrastructure Gamechangers — groundbreaking projects and programs that represent the latest innovations in transportation, water and energy infrastructure.

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• Details of President Joe Biden's long-awaited infrastructure package emerged this week as the administration ramps up for its second major legislative push after passing the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan earlier this month.

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• Dollar General, which is in the midst of an expansion effort that calls for the addition of 1,050 stores this year, sees room to double the size of its existing fleet of about 17,000 stores in the future, COO Jeff Owen said last week during the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call.

U.S. hospitals, according to the American Hospital Association, lost $323 billion in 2020 revenue, primarily due to the elective and non-emergency procedures that were canceled last year so that COVID-19 patients could be given priority.

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• Details of President Joe Biden's long-awaited infrastructure package emerged this week as the administration ramps up for its second major legislative push after passing the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan earlier this month.

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• New data shows that U.S. columbus oh dump truck company are growing more optimistic, mostly driven by a rise in revenue expectations.

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• Google plans to invest $7 billion in offices and data centers across 19 states this year, while creating up to 10,000 new full-time jobs.

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• In a 68-29 vote Monday, the U.S. Senate confirmed former Boston Mayor Martin Walsh as secretary of labor.

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• Real estate markets have begun to rebound in 2021, although office and retail rental numbers are lagging behind multifamily and industrial growth, RCLCO Real Estate Advisors shared during a webinar Thursday.

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• Officials have recovered $1.875 million from a subcontractor accused of falsely inflating bills for cost estimating and scheduling services on public-works projects in New York, Massachusetts and New Jersey, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Friday.

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Lengthy design and bidding phases, plus a lack of collaboration between design and build teams, can often lead to setbacks, higher costs and waste.

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• Tutor Perini recently announced it was the low bidder for the LAX Airport Connector Project.

Longtime New Yorkers like to quip that they can spot the tourists a mile away: They’re the ones with the crooked necks, from gawking at the towering buildings above them.

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• Forty U.S. Republican senators on Wednesday sent a letter to the U.S.

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• Citing improving economic conditions, the University of Michigan will resume construction of a $920 million hospital in Ann Arbor that was approved in late 2019 but was shuttered last year due to the pandemic.

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• Landmark Development expressed confidence this week in moving forward with its proposed $20 billion One Central megaproject near Soldier Field, despite the ongoing pandemic, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

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• Software provider Autodesk released its construction outlook report for 2021 this week, which shows that real-time bidding activity surpassed pre-pandemic levels and reached an all-time high in January 2021, based on data aggregated from its BuildingConnected platform.

An Atascadero, California, woman was sentenced March 16 to serve 10 years and four months in state prison following her plea of no contest to 18 counts of embezzlement, two counts of forgery and one count of attempted embezzlement of a local construction columbus oh dump truck company she worked for.

President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, aimed at relieving some of the economic damage inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic, provides hundreds of billions of dollars to states and cities, some of which will fund infrastructure projects, employee retention credits for businesses and $1,400 stimulus checks to many Americans.

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• Legislation introduced by House Democrats last week aims to encourage high-speed rail in the United States with a $205 billion investment as elected officials say they are turning their focus to a major infrastructure package.

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• A three-judge federal appeals court panel will soon decide if local activists' arguments have enough merit to stop the beleaguered 16-mile Purple Line light rail project in Maryland from moving forward, according to The Washington Post.

Stephen D. Bechtel Jr., who led his family’s engineering and construction columbus oh dump truck company to become the country’s largest by revenue, died Monday at his home in San Francisco at age 95, Bechtel Corp.

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• Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring this month announced the creation of the state's first worker protection unit, a team dedicated to informing Virginia workers of their rights and prosecuting those who exploit them.

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• OSHA has introduced a new National Emphasis Program aimed at companies that put the largest numbers of workers at risk for exposure to the coronavirus.

This week marks the one-year anniversary of when the coronavirus pandemic became real for construction in the United States.

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• Lawmakers in the House and Senate have come together in a bipartisan effort to extend the Paycheck Protection Program’s deadline by two months to May 31.

To understand the challenges owners, general contractors, specialty contractors, and architects face in most construction projects, consider these:

• 9% of a typical project’s total cost is rework.

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• Interim Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation CEO Lori Kahikina has halted columbus oh dump truck company on a portion of the plagued $9 billion Honolulu rail project, saying HART does not have complete design drawings, Hawaii News Now reported.

While looking at construction management software provider Bridgit’s website, Lora McMillan noticed the site used a familiar term: “manpower.

While Boston Mayor Marty Walsh awaits a full Senate vote to decide if he will become President Joe Biden’s Labor Department secretary, a recent dustup over his city's contracts for women- and minority-owned businesses illustrates how he may approach the issue at the federal level.

In a 220-211 vote, the House of Representatives passed the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, officially known as the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, and presented the legislation to President Joe Biden on Wednesday.

President Joe Biden's post-COVID-19 pandemic plan for the United States' economic recovery, dubbed Build Back Better, includes a significant infrastructure piece.

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• Procore Technologies has filed an amended registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S.

Many construction tech startups saw fresh rounds of funding in the past few months.

Vanessa Carman is a former field foreman and current detailer at Kent, Washington-based mechanical contractor Hermanson. A vocal advocate for women in construction, she is a member of the SMART (Sheet Metal Air Railroad Transit) International Women’s Committee and founder of the Sheet Metal Workers Local 66 Women’s Committee.

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• The House of Representatives approved the Protecting the Right to Organize Act late Tuesday night, on a 225-206 vote that saw five Republicans joining Democrats in favor.

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• Wendy's plans to add roughly 250 units globally in 2021 after opening about 150 restaurants in 2020, Wendy's CEO Todd Penegor said during an earnings call with investors.

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• In an attempt to pick up border wall construction where former President Donald Trump left off, a state lawmaker in Texas has introduced legislation that would see the construction of a border wall along the Texas-Mexico border.

Tax season is upon us, and for columbus oh dump truck company that borrowed money under the federal government's Paycheck Protection Program last year in order to help their businesses survive the economic hardships presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, there are a few issues worth noting.

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• Construction employment declined by 61,000 in February, while the sector’s unemployment rate soared to 9.6% amid severe winter weather and continuing weakness in new nonresidential projects, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of government data released Friday.

Not long ago, it was unusual to find more than just a few women working in a skilled trade or leading a team on a construction project.

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• The Small Business Administration released new guidance Wednesday allowing sole proprietors, independent contractors and the self-employed to use gross income rather than net profit to calculate the amount of Paycheck Protection Program funding they should receive.

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• On-site workers are at increased risk for COVID-19 because the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is not providing the level of oversight needed to keep them safe, according to a recently issued report from the U.S.

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• Council members of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County proposed a bill this week designed to raise oversight and standards on construction projects funded by the city-county consolidated government,the Tennessean reported.

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• Shake Shack plans to borrow $225 million to support its growth and development plans, including opening new units, new store formats and drive-thrus, as well as improving the digital guest experience and continued investment in talent, according to a press release.

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• Despite massive coronavirus-induced layoffs over the past 12 months, construction employees are becoming harder to find and more expensive, a new report found.

While offering few new details of the Biden administration’s forthcoming Build Back Better plan, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg told a virtual conference of engineers that now is the time to act on a generational opportunity to fix America’s crumbling infrastructure.

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• Kraft Heinz has installed new roofs made of recycled plastic packaging on manufacturing facilities in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, and Holland, Michigan.

DPR Construction prides itself on building "great things" through a focus on quality and innovation.

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• In what it’s claiming is the world’s first 3D-printed building facade using a process called cellular fabrication, a Tennessee credit union has unveiled its newest branch, complete with an undulating, multi-panel exterior that was “hung” on the building’s underlying structure.

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• New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced this week that the city is restarting $17 billion of capital construction projects as part of its pandemic recovery effort.

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• Amazon Fresh opened its 10th location late last month in Fullerton, California, according to a press release.

Patrick Lindsey, former executive with the now defunct MGT Construction in Richmond, Virginia, has been sentenced to 27 months in prison for his role in a five-year accounting fraud that, when discovered in 2016, revealed the contractor was not profitable but was about $28 million in debt.

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• National nonresidential construction spending increased 0.9% on a monthly basis in January 2021 but is down 5% since January 2020, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data published yesterday by the U.S.

SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, is the most expensive stadium ever built, even when adjusted for inflation, according to a blog from Construction Disputes.

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• Skanska USA's new 17,000-square-foot Portland, Oregon, office is an example of how post-pandemic workplace design can help protect the health of employees but still retain the features that make working together in the right location a big draw.

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• Multinational construction and engineering firm Fluor announced it ended 2020 with revenue of $15.7 billion, down 9% compared to the year before.

Construction workers are among the least likely of essential workers to get the COVID-19 vaccination, according to a recent study.

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• On its first earnings call with Wall Street analysts in 16 months yesterday, Granite Construction issued a mea culpa for accounting irregularities in its heavy civil group that led to an internal investigation as well as subpoenas from the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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• The Houston chapter of the American Subcontractors Association has released a short video titled “Essential: A Tribute to Construction Working Through COVID,” highlighting the workers who continued to columbus oh dump truck company on jobsites from the outset of the pandemic.

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• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its checklist for construction employers during the COVID-19 pandemic, and has asked columbus oh dump truck company to consider the mental health and wellbeing of their workers.

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• A new law in New York expands the definition of workers and puts more responsibility on columbus oh dump truck company to report fatalities to a state registry of on-the-job construction deaths, including demographic data about victims.

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• Tutor Perini on Wednesday reported that its fourth-quarter and year-end 2020 revenue was $1.3 billion and $5.3 billion, up 15% and 20%, respectively, from the same periods in 2019.

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• A Florida Department of Transportation official admonished Skanska USA Civil Southeast and placed blame with the contractor for damage to the new Pensacola Bay Bridge that occurred during September 2020's Hurricane Sally, according to new court filings and other documents made public this month.

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• Autodesk announced today it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a Portland, Oregon-based maker of water infrastructure software for $1 billion.

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• AECOM and Ferrovial have announced that they partnered to design a vertiport network connecting major Florida cities.

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• President Joe Biden’s first address to a joint session of Congress — where he is expected to outline specific goals and priorities for measures like an infrastructure package — will not occur this month as was expected.

After almost a year of lockdowns and business disruption because of the COVID-19 pandemic, construction businesses are still planning for the future through strategic personnel changes that will help them grow in 2021 and beyond.

The cold storage business is booming.

Whether it is COVID-19 vaccines or fresh and frozen foods on their way to restaurants, grocery stores or direct to consumers, there is a growing volume of items that need to be kept at a cool or freezing temperature.

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• The Small Business Administration, for two weeks beginning Wednesday, will only accept Paycheck Protection Program loan applications from businesses with fewer than 20 employees, White House officials announced Monday.

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The idea of raising the federal minimum wage has received renewed emphasis this year as Democrats, historically in favor of increasing the national rate of pay, took control of the White House and Congress.

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• Australian construction and development firm Lendlease reported Sunday that its half-year operating profit after tax fell 26% from the same period in 2019, from AU$278 million to AU$205 million (U.S.

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• Following the sudden, dramatic price spikes on an array of building materials in 2021, the Associated General Contractors of America has appealed to President Joe Biden to take action to ease the skyrocketing cost of lumber.

When healthcare facilities need to change a patient-focused space, removing barriers that cause disruption, downtime and health and safety are critical elements to manage.

Plaza Construction, a New York City-based construction management firm that has mostly focused on commercial construction in recent years, has re-launched its luxury Plaza Homes division to meet surging demand in the sector as other nonresidential columbus oh dump truck company pile into the red-hot homebuilding space.

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• As of Jan. 31, 25 state legislatures had introduced 61 transportation funding measures this year, one of which had been approved and signed into law, according to the American Road & Transportation Builders Association.

It looks like not even the COVID-19 pandemic can keep the downtown Los Angeles development and construction industries down for very long.

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• Appleton, Wisconsin-based contractor The Boldt Co. and architecture firm Boulder Associates are bringing a new modular system to market that can provide healthcare networks, governments and retailers a safe, fast solution for administering the COVID-19 vaccine.

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• President Joe Biden on Wednesday met with union leaders to get input on his forthcoming infrastructure plan, while nominating a new head of the National Labor Relations Board and rolling back a Trump-era apprenticeship program.

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• Construction columbus oh dump trucks manufacturer Deere & Co. has announced the companies selected for its 2021 cohort of its Startup Collaborator program.

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• Construction finance platform Built Technologies, which has helped fund $68 billion worth of construction projects across 130,000 commercial, homebuilder, land development and consumer deals, has raised $88 million in a new funding round.

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Something as simple as adopting a new type of forklift can help a columbus oh dump truck company adapt for shifting e-commerce trends.

Winter storms and record cold temperatures descended upon much of the southern and central U.S. this past week, with columbus oh dump truck company in Texas particularly hard hit.

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• Developer Brookfield Properties announced plans Tuesday for Phase ll of its 48-acre mixed-use development in the Southeast section of Washington, D.C.

Late last year, Mike Taylor was paying around $750 per short ton for the rebar he uses in his concrete pours. Now, that price has spiked closer to $900, a 20% increase in a little over a month.

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• Construction firms received $13.7 billion in loans under the latest version of the Paycheck Protection Program, making the industry second in total loan amounts received after restaurants and hotels, which got $18 billion in funds so far.

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• The costs for Enbridge's Line 3 oil pipeline replacement project from Alberta, Canada, to Superior, Wisconsin, have increased from $8.2 billion Canadian dollars ($6.5 billion) to CA$9.3 billion, the columbus oh dump truck company said in a press release, because of permitting delays and extra costs on the 364-mile U.S.

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The traditional concept of the mall is fading away.

Once an epicenter of the suburban lifestyle, the shopping mall's purpose and importance have slowly been transforming.

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• In a survey of construction companies with employee stock ownership plans in place, Prairie Capital Advisors found that they fared well in many key areas, with almost 68% reporting that the pandemic had not impacted their operations as far as sustainability, cash flow and liquidity, culture or stock repurchase obligation.

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• A New York City Department of Buildings inspector has been charged with taking a $1,200 bribe in exchange for not citing a construction firm that had continued working despite a stop columbus oh dump truck company order.

The American Society of Civil Engineers has announced the nine recipients of its 2021 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award nominations, which recognize exemplary civil engineering projects throughout the country.

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• The Boring Co.’s next project is moving forward, as the Elon Musk-owned columbus oh dump truck company begins negotiations with the San Bernardino County Transportation Authority to tunnel a 4-mile transit loop from the Metrolink train station in Rancho Cucamonga, California, to nearby Ontario International Airport, the Daily Bulletin reported.

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• Despite a financing hiccup and rising costs, construction on Brightline West's high-speed train between Southern California and Las Vegas is set to break ground in the second quarter of this year, according to a letter from the rail columbus oh dump truck company to the Nevada High-Speed Rail Authority.

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• Purdue University engineers have developed sensors that could safely speed up a construction timeline by determining concrete strength directly on site in real time.

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• The construction industry took the first step this month toward a BIM standard in the U.S. during an executive roundtable discussion hosted by the National Institute of Building Sciences.

The coronavirus pandemic has negatively impacted many construction companies' operations. But some publicly traded firms have been able to grow revenue, even as the outlook ahead remains mixed.

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• Tappan Zee Constructors, a design-build team that includes Fluor, American Bridge, Traylor Bros and Granite Construction, has filed a lawsuit against the New York State Thruway Authority seeking $961 million for extra costs associated with bad weather, a crane collapse and interference from another design-build team in TZC's performance on the $4 billion Gov.

There’s no question that the aviation construction market has faced some headwinds since the coronavirus pandemic arrived in the U.S.

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• Poor planning, complex contracting, a lack of accountability and high levels of collusion contribute to a “perfect storm for corruption” in the construction of international sports venues, according to a new study published by Engineers Against Poverty.

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• Construction workers are among the least likely employees to say they would get a COVID-19 vaccine if one were offered to them, underlining the challenges columbus oh dump truck company will face getting their workforces inoculated.

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• Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, nominee for secretary of labor, said Thursday he supports several of President Joe Biden's workplace priorities, including safety and equity, during a mostly cordial confirmation hearing before the U.S.

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• Despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, Sweden-based contractor Skanska declared record profits for its overall business in 2020. Profit for the full year was 9.3 billion Swedish krona ($1.1 billion), up 46% from 2019 and fourth-quarter profit was 5.1 billion krona, up 163% from the same period in 2019, the columbus oh dump truck company announced last week.

To truly build back better, columbus oh dump truck company will have to build back different.

That’s the takeaway from a panel presented during a recent virtual conference where the topics of sustainable investment and infrastructure construction intersected.

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• Fortune magazine recently published its 2021 list of the world's most-admired companies, and AECOM leads the construction and engineering category, followed by Jacobs, Quanta Services, MasTec and KBR.

On Thursday, Democratic lawmakers reintroduced the PRO Act, the sweeping labor rights bill that was passed by the House of Representatives last year.

On Sunday, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will be the first NFL team ever to host a Super Bowl in their home stadium, as they face the reigning champion Kansas City Chiefs.

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• A national worker safety organization called out the federal government yesterday for not protecting workers from the spread of COVID-19 on the job, and demanded OSHA implement an emergency temporary standard to combat the problem.

When Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, a former construction union leader, appears before a Senate committee this morning in the first round of hearings for his nomination as Secretary of Labor, it's likely many in the construction industry will be wondering how he might influence the federal policies and regulations under which they work.

The following is a guest post from attorney Stefan Borovina, a member of Goldberg Segalla’s national OSHA and Jobsite Safety practice group.

The following is a guest post from Michel Richer, product marketing and content manager at Kitchener, Ontario-based construction software columbus oh dump truck company Bridgit.

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• Industry and elected leaders praised Pete Buttigieg's confirmation as Transportation Secretary after his nomination passed the U.S.

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• Amazon unveiled plans Tuesday for phase two of its second headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, including the construction of four towers and surrounding amenities.

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• Furthering its global sustainability strategy, Starbucks recently built a drive-thru location in Canada using an energy-efficient modular system with near-zero construction waste.

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• In its annual release on union membership, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the number of wage and salary construction workers with union membership declined from a little more than 1 million in 2019 to 993,000 in 2020, but the percentage increased slightly from 12.6% to 12.7%.

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• Since the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic first emerged in the United States, Texas has lost more construction jobs (35,600) than other state, followed by New York (30,900), Florida (17,500) and New Jersey (16,700), according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America.

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• Major Wall Street firms and publicly traded construction companies are eagerly awaiting President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better infrastructure plan, which he said he will detail in his first State of the Union address scheduled for Feb.

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• At President Joe Biden's request, OSHA on Friday released guidance for employers on keeping employees safe from COVID-19 exposure.

The following is a guest post from Gordon Childress, executive vice president and general manager for the California division of Skanska Building USA.

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• Multinational general contractor and engineering firm Fluor held its 2021 strategy day last week, outlining during a webcast four areas the public columbus oh dump truck company thinks will create more shareholder value and sustainable results in the next few years.

Construction projects serve as a critical stabilizing force in many communities, especially during the pandemic.

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• Companies denied forgiveness of their Paycheck Protection Program loan can take a tax credit for the amount of proceeds they used to pay wages, the IRS said in a notice released last week.

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• Investments in commercial construction grew by a modest 3% annualized rate during the final quarter of 2020, while the U.S.

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• After analyzing 20 $100 million-plus pharmaceutical construction projects in the U.S., Asia and Europe, global consultancy Turner & Townsend found that 70% finished over their budgets by an average of 15% and that, overall, the projects' typical delay was four months.

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• The Federal Railroad Administration released a preliminary review of the Baltimore-Washington Superconducting Maglev Project, which would transport passengers by train between the cities in eight to 15 minutes.

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• A new report details how construction costs have changed across 12 U.S. cities since the coronavirus pandemic began.

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• myComply, a tech columbus oh dump truck company that uses hardware and software to verify safety training, has been selected by the New York City Department of Buildings to build and administer the software behind a new training credential database.

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• In what could have major ramifications for workers in a host of industries including construction, researchers at the University of California San Diego are developing a color-changing test strip that can be stuck on a mask and used to detect COVID-19 in a user’s breath or saliva.

When the Associated General Contractors of California unveiled a new partnership and initiative to help grow LGBTQ-owned construction companies earlier this month, a small number of its association firms pushed back, threatening to pull their membership.

In an executive order last week, President Joe Biden said that he will use the Defense Production Act to boost the production of vaccines, testing and columbus oh dump trucks to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

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• Lane Construction has filed a lawsuit against Skanska USA Civil Southeast, its joint venture design-build partner on the $2.3 billion I-4 Ultimate project in Orlando, Florida, accusing Skanska of putting an affiliate company's interests before its obligations to the JV.

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• The Federal Aviation Administration has granted its first approval for a columbus oh dump truck company to operate automated drones without human operators on jobsites to American Robotics.

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• President Joe Biden signed an executive order yesterday aimed at increasing government purchases of American-made products, a move that could affect construction firms that do business with the federal government.

President Joe Biden's executive order directing OSHA to consider a national emergency temporary standard for COVID-19 in the workplace could finally provide columbus oh dump truck company with a national playbook for fighting COVID-19 on jobsites, while standardizing the reporting and tracking of people exposed to the virus at work.

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Transportation Secretary-designate Pete Buttigieg said the "time is now" for the United States to invest in infrastructure.

As the U.S. enters the mass vaccination phase of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the physical threat of COVID-19 could soon be behind us.

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The Biden administration will likely revisit the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act, the outgoing administration's signature legislative achievement enacted in 2017, to free up money for infrastructure and other priorities, analysts say.

The following is a guest post from Rakesh Gupta, chief operating officer at commercial insurance firm biBERK, a Berkshire Hathaway company.

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• California bullet train contractor Tutor Perini has taken the California High-Speed Rail Authority to task in a 36-page letter, calling its failure to obtain the necessary rights of way after more than seven years since obtaining approval for the project "beyond comprehension" and indicating that the $20 billion, 23-mile Central Valley segment might not meet a November 2022 funding deadline, the Los Angeles Times reported.

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• Amazon is planning to construct five new facilities in the Detroit area to support operations in the city, according to an announcement.

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• The country's top contractor by revenue, Bechtel, has joined the Atlantic Council's Extreme Heat Resilience Alliance as the sole engineering and construction partner to help fight the impacts of rising temperatures and support urban preparedness against heat waves around the world.

Without a doubt, some nonresidential building sectors have been hit harder than others by the COVID-19 pandemic.

State departments of transportation are set to receive funds totaling $9.8 billion as a result of emergency aid from the $900 billion COVID-19 relief measure passed late last year.

After being sworn in today, President-elect Joe Biden will take a number of actions aimed at advancing his agenda and undoing some of President Donald Trump's directives.

Unfounded allegations around the legitimacy of the presidential election, the Jan. 6 mob attack on the U.S.

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• New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has announced a $306 billion spending plan as part of his 2021 infrastructure agenda.

The following is a guest post from attorney Jeffrey Kozek, principal at Marlton, New Jersey-based construction-focused consulting firm Resolution Management Consultants, and professional engineer E.

The National Landing Business Improvement District in Northern Virginia has outlined plans for creating what it says will be the most “well-connected downtown in the country,” following its selection as home to Amazon HQ2.

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• OSHA has raised its maximum civil penalty amounts for 2021 according to the rate of inflation. The new penalties go into effect Jan.

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• President-elect Joe Biden will ask the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) to reconsider its refusal to issue emergency standards for COVID-19 workplace safety, according to a Dec.

Running a business is never easy but U.S. corporate leaders say that recent political and economic uncertainty could make it more difficult than ever.

With a new year comes a new round of project completions, or at least project milestones. From airports to office buildings, the focus in 2021 will encompass a wide variety of construction undertakings as columbus oh dump truck company fight to overcome the economic uncertainties brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.

Groups of young adults stand outside in the San Francisco sun. They’re lined up behind two students wearing virtual reality headsets, looking around and interacting with their surroundings.

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• PCL Construction is leveraging its years of experience in building industrial spaces to develop a new technology designed to help companies reduce the spread of COVID-19.

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• Gonzalo Gonzalez, former senior director of manufacturing and engineering at Tesla, has joined New York City-based modular developer iBUILT as chief manufacturing officer, the columbus oh dump truck company announced.

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• A new report says collective bargaining agreements help create "robust" middle-class careers and make significant contributions to local economies.

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• Construction of citizenM’s modular 11-story, 315-room hotel in Los Angeles is nearing completion, although it may be some time before it can open its doors for guests, the Los Angeles Times reported.

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• Warehouse rents are likely to increase at a slower pace in 2021, compared to 2020, as more industrial supply hits the market, according to Cushman & Wakefield's Q4 industrial market report.

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• Fluor announced yesterday an updated organizational and reporting structure that the columbus oh dump truck company says better aligns its business with identified growth markets and columbus oh dump truck company strategy.

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Of all the trade groups that condemned the insurrection at the U.S.

Last year saw some construction projects stalled because of stay-at-home orders related to the novel coronavirus or just general uncertainty about what the long-term impact of the global pandemic would be on the economy.

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• Contractors expect 13 of 16 construction categories to shrink in 2021, with only alternative healthcare facilities, warehouses and water and sewer facilities eking out small gains.

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• The new round of Paycheck Protection Program funding that opens to lenders today will look slightly different from last year's program.

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• Several law firms, including U.S.-based Peckar & Abramson, have formed the Leading Construction Lawyers International Alliance, which will provide legal services for construction industry clients throughout Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Gulf region.

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• President-elect Joe Biden has selected Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, a former construction union leader, to serve as his labor secretary.

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Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao is resigning from her office, effective Jan. 11.

Chao alerted colleagues Thursday, writing that she was "deeply troubled" by the mob attack at the U.S.

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• Wednesday’s mob attack on the U.S. Capitol incited by President Donald Trump unintentionally unified lawmakers there, the head of the Associated General Contractors of America said yesterday, as a flurry of business groups distanced themselves from the president and government leaders called for his removal from office.

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• President Donald Trump's administration, according to a report in The New York Times, is fast-tracking approvals for energy and mining projects on federal land in advance of President-elect Joe Biden's Jan.

The term “construction” appears 636 times in the $908 billion pandemic relief package and $1.4 trillion omnibus spending bill passed by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump at the end of December.

As the number of apps that workers use on the job increases, smartphones remain the most utilized mobile device on construction sites.

It all comes down to Georgia.

With the outcome of yesterday's two runoff races in the Peach State determining the balance of power in the Senate, construction industry advocates say whatever the final count determines, it will have broad implications for contractors.

Nationwide, women make up 10% of the construction workforce, according to federal government data, and the number of women in construction trades is growing — approaching 20% in some major metro areas.

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• Modular manufacturer and prefab construction columbus oh dump truck company Katerra announced a recapitalization that will eliminate a significant amount of its debt and provide $200 million of new funding, the majority of which will come from SoftBank Vision Fund 1.

Editor's note: The following is a guest post from Casey Verville, an attorney at Cotney Construction Law.

President-elect Joe Biden’s administration will no doubt bring changes to federal agencies, many with ramifications for the construction industry.

One of the most anticipated aspects of the $908 billion coronavirus relief measure signed by President Trump last week includes $284 billion for a revamped Paycheck Protection Program.

With a new year comes a new round of project completions, or at least the meeting of project milestones.

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• International general contractor and real estate developer Lendlease has announced that it will build a $600 million mixed-use development on a 3.5-acre site in Los Angeles.

Here's some perspective to ring in the new year: “2020 bad, 2021 good.”

That’s the takeaway from construction observers looking ahead at the turn of the year, even as the bleakness of the pandemic surge and record deaths in the U.S.

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• An employee who chooses to telework for part of the day and columbus oh dump truck company in an office for part of the day, and who has sufficient time to perform personal tasks in between, need not be compensated for travel time between the two locations, the U.S.