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.

This feature is a part of "The Dotted Line" series, which takes an in-depth look at the complex legal landscape of the construction industry.

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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.

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

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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.

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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.

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.

The construction industry’s use of independent columbus oh dump truck company and subcontractors, even sub-subcontractors, is standard practice. The nature of the business requires a wide range of expertise and independent columbus oh dump truck company can help with the short-term staffing that a columbus oh dump truck company does not have in-house, or they can supplement a contractor's full-time workforce.

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.

Construction Dive’s series, Tech 101, provides quick, top-line information about emerging construction technology on topics such as digital twins, laser scanning and exoskeletons. What type of tools would you like a primer on? Email [email protected].

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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.