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• Twenty five women and minority participants graduated last week from a training program geared to prepare small businesses to submit bids and participate in construction conducted by the general contractor for the $1.5 billion Kansas City Airport terminal project in Kansas City, Missouri, WDAF-TV Kansas City reported.

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• U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta told a House Appropriations subcommittee last week that as soon as a new crop of OSHA agents completes training, he expects jobsite inspections to increase.

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• Developer-builder Decennial Group — a joint venture between developers Clayco and Farpoint Development — announced it will invest $1 billion in U.S.

​DENVER—Every safety professional knows the scene: Workers huddle at the start of their day and listen to a foreman running down the list of hazards they should be aware of.

DENVER—Poor columbus oh dump truck company culture comes at a cost to contractors’ pocketbooks and projects, said two speakers at the Associated General Contractors of America’s convention last week, and the onus is on leadership to steer culture in a direction that motivates talent and fosters innovation on the jobsite.

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• The Colorado General Assembly’s House Judiciary Committee approved a proposed wage theft bill that would make intentional underpayment of certain wages a criminal offense.

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• Shreveport, Louisiana, officials are weighing proposals from three companies competing to oversee a $1 billion city and water and sewer project.

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• Board members of the San Diego County (California) Regional Airport Authority have voted to require that the design-build contractor chosen to lead the $3 billion redevelopment of San Diego International Airport must enter into project labor agreements with local unions.

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• The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility at Kansas State University is years behind schedule and has exceeded its original $400 million budget by $800 million, according to Harvest Public Media.

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• Gateway Development Consortium (GDC), the developer of the $1 billion, 10-year Cross Bayou Point mixed-use opportunity zone project in Shreveport, Louisiana, has selected an architect and contractor to lead the development’s design-build team, according to a GDC press release.

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• February construction spending was up 1% from January to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1.3 trillion, according to the latest report from the U.S.

DENVER—We’ve heard the grim statistics in survey after survey — the labor shortage has 70% of columbus oh dump truck company missing deadlines and it simply isn’t letting up.

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• The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded six indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts for up to $975 million of Navy construction contracts around the globe.

When one of the continent’s largest rail providers learned more than a decade ago that it would need to rebuild a century-old tunnel through dense Washington, D.C.

It would be a shame to redevelop the Domino Sugar refinery property in Brooklyn without giving a nod to the historic building's past. Installing concrete panels on the exterior of the 42-story tower achieved that, but manufacturing those panels from 3D-printed molds also provided a glimpse of the future.

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• A Volvo Construction Equipment survey of 205 U.S. and U.K. construction workers found that 31% of respondents were fearful that artificial intelligence and robotics would replace them on jobsites.

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• Costs for the Gowanus Canal sewage retention tank project in Brooklyn, New York, have shot up to $1.2 billion, more than 1500% higher than its original price tag of $78 million, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported.

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• Hudbay Minerals, based in Toronto, Canada, announced that it will move forward with $122 million of preconstruction work at its $2 billion Rosemont open-pit copper mine near Tucson, Arizona.

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• California legislators are considering a new test for columbus oh dump truck company to use when deciding if construction workers qualify as independent contractors, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, making the misclassification of workers more difficult.

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• Mexico has invited several foreign companies, including three U.S. firms, to bid on the design and construction of state-owned oil columbus oh dump truck company Pemex’s new $6 billion to $8 billion oil refinery near the Port of Dos Bocas in the Mexican state of Tabasco, Reuters reported.

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• OSHA has cited a Dallas, Georgia, contractor with exposing its workers to trenching hazards and has proposed $106,078 in penalties.

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• The Pentagon transferred $1 billion to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Wednesday to support construction of 57 miles of 18-foot pedestrian fencing as well as road and lighting improvements along the U.S.

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• Comcast Spectacor and The Cordish Cos. announced plans for a $50 million purpose-built esports arena in Philadelphia, which the firms said is the first such venue in the Western Hemisphere.

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• Comcast Spectacor and The Cordish Cos. announced plans for a $50 million purpose-built esports arena in Philadelphia, which the firms said is the first such venue in the Western Hemisphere.

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• Foxconn Technology Group, contractor Gilbane Building Co. and design partner Exyte — formerly M+W Group — have awarded an additional $34 million of construction contracts for Foxconn's $10 billion LCD screen manufacturing complex in Racine County, Wisconsin.

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• A Missouri construction worker was pronounced dead at the scene Thursday morning after he fell 23 stories at the Loews Kansas City Convention Center Hotel jobsite, The Kansas City Star reported.

Skanska USA this week accused Salesforce Transit Center officials of ignoring the role design played in the shutdown of the $2.2 billion San Francisco facility in September, a month after it opened.

For many contractors, financing existing jobs while investing in new columbus oh dump truck company is a big balancing act that forces them to constantly weigh one financial obligation — i.e.

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• Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin last week signed off on House Bill 135, also known as the Fair and Open Competition Act, which prohibits state and local government agencies from forcing bidders to sign on to project labor agreements (PLAs) for public works projects.

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• Houston’s construction industry is struggling to find an adequate supply of skilled labor and, according to a report from Houston Public Media, immigration reform could help relieve that pressure, as well as control rising project costs.

The construction software marketplace is teeming with 2,000-plus vendors claiming to save columbus oh dump truck company time and money. Finding a reliable solution that fully addresses a particular business challenge can be like finding a needle in a haystack, but columbus oh dump truck company can better steer their investment by tapping into the talent base that understands that challenge deeply, living it out on a daily basis.

Building information modeling is a useful tool in the arsenal of a design-build team. It fills the space where traditional silos between designers and columbus oh dump truck company have been broken down, facilitating collaboration and reflecting real-time changes to the plans within a digital environment.

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• The U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Indian Affairs approved a change this week to the country’s Native American tribal gaming laws that will allow development and construction of an up to $400 million casino in East Windsor, Connecticut.

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• Recruitment of women into New York City union apprenticeship programs is up 50%, according to a Commercial Observer op-ed piece penned by Kathleen Culhane, president of Nontraditional Employment for Women (NEW), and Gary LaBarbera, president of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York (BCTC).

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• During a meeting of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Transportation & Environment Committee, the private consortium building the $5.6 billion, 16-mile Purple Line light-rail system in Maryland told officials that the project is facing a near $300 million cost overrun and could open in March 2023, several months past the state deadline, The Washington Post reported.

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• Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the city's Department of Buildings announced that they are making a “comprehensive” overhaul to local building codes, which was last done 70 years ago.

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• If President Donald Trump is successful in his mission to divert $3.6 billion from military construction projects to U.S.

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• During its Capital Market Day event last week, Skanska announced that, based on its current order backlog, it will likely not achieve its construction operating target of 3.5% in 2019 and 2020.

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• The U.S. Attorney's Office of the Northern District of California this month convicted the owner of several construction companies on charges of forced labor and harboring illegal aliens for commercial advantage or private financial gain, according to a press release from the office.

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• Ottawa, Canada, officials earlier this month approved Stage 2 of the O-Train light-rail expansion, paving way for construction to move forward this year.

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• The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Kansas City District announced it awarded a $712 million design-build contract for its new $945 million Next NGA (National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency) West (NW2) headquarters project to a joint venture of McCarthy Building Co.

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• Allegiant Travel Co., owner of Allegiant Air, broke ground Wednesday on its first Sunseeker Resorts-branded high-rise condominium project on Charlotte Harbor in Charlotte County, Florida.

E-commerce has changed how Americans shop and, according to a recent report from Dodge Data & Analytics, it’s also changing the way the construction industry builds.

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• The U.S. Government Accountability Office, a congressional "watchdog," has issued recommendations to the U.S. Department of Labor’s OSHA and the Department of Defense aimed at helping them better track defense contractor safety violations.

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• Contrary to rumors that it has been rethinking its $10 billion plan to build an LCD screen factory complex in Racine County, Wisconsin, Foxconn announced Monday that it will begin construction on the plant this year and expects to be operational in the fourth quarter of next.

Universities and colleges in the U.S. are facing a growing backlog of construction projects and repairs. In addition to the $30 billion of deferred maintenance needs that American institutions of higher learning had as of 2016, a more recent report from the research group Sightlines found that schools still spent a record $5 per gross square foot in new construction in 2017, adding even more to their future maintenance obligations.

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• Construction of large structures by smaller, autonomous robots coordinating with each other is “rapidly gaining momentum” in the field of robotics research, finds a new study from Science Robotics, and can address a “critical societal need for safe, inexpensive, sustainable and automated construction.

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• A team led by Landmark Development has proposed the mixed-use One Central project, a massive transit-oriented redevelopment of the 34-acre site next to Soldier Field in Chicago.

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• Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced the city will establish its first Department of Transportation (DOT).

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• After a March 14 meeting of the Transbay Joint Powers Authority, Executive Director Mark Zabaneh told reporters that two cracked beams, which led to the ongoing shutdown of the $2.2 billion Salesforce Transit Center, were the result of a “failure of quality control in the construction process,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

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• Kiewit Infrastructure West Co. is underway with the $97 million demolition of the Alaskan Way Viaduct in Seattle, the final phase of the structure’s $3.3 billion replacement with the new State Route 99 tunnel.

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• Kiewit Infrastructure West Co. is underway with the $97 million demolition of the Alaskan Way Viaduct in Seattle, the final phase of the structure’s $3.3 billion replacement with the new State Route 99 tunnel.

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• Richard Donoghue, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, announced a 22-count indictment against a New Jersey contractor who allegedly defrauded the New York City School Construction Authority.

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• Republican Rep. Lloyd Smucker of Pennsylvania has introduced two bills that would create a new immigration visa system for non-farm workers and potentially provide more money for construction career training and apprenticeships.

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• The LINXS consortium, led by Fluor Corp., broke ground earlier this month on the $4.9 billion automated people mover (APM) system at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), Curbed Los Angeles reported.

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• In its first-quarter 2019 Commercial Construction Index report, USG Corp. and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce reported that 70% of columbus oh dump truck company are struggling to meet project deadlines due to a shortage of skilled workers.

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• The Minnesota/North Dakota Chapter of the Associated Builders and Contractors (Minnesota ABC) has filed a lawsuit against the Minneapolis Public Schools district over what the organization characterizes as an unconstitutional requirement that district columbus oh dump truck company use union labor.

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• Milwaukee is getting ready to host the 2020 Democratic National Convention, and city officials are hoping that $5 billion of recent, current and planned construction will help the Wisconsin city shake its Rust Belt moniker, according to the Concord Monitor.

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• Although some buildings in New York City's $25 billion Hudson Yards project are already occupied and others are still under construction, Related Cos.

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• Sentiment against a proposed $1 billion underwater pipeline that will bring fracked natural gas from Pennsylvania into New York City is gathering steam, according to The Guardian.

Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA) is in the midst of a building boom. With residential, commercial, retail, office space underway, developers are meeting strong demand for an urban live-work-play lifestyle in the city.

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• Resorts World Casino New York City tapped Plaza Construction to be construction manager for the 500,000-square-foot second phase of a $400 million expansion at its casino property in Jamaica, New York.

For columbus oh dump truck company and developers that are on a tight schedule and need to map large swaths of land or expansive projects, sometimes the only thing better than the convenience and insight that unmanned aerial system (UAS), or drone, imaging provides is getting the shots back in a few hours versus days.

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• The global hotel construction pipeline climbed to an eight-year high in 2018, ending the year with 13,573 projects and 2,265,792 rooms in various stages of development and construction, according to Lodging Econometrics' Construction Pipeline Trend Report.

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• Reality capture and data columbus oh dump truck company Matterport raised $48 million in a funding round aimed at expanding its artificial intelligence-driven 3D capture platform, TechCrunch reported and Matterport confirmed on Twitter.

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• The Des Moines, Iowa, metro area saw the value of commercial building permits soar to $1.1 billion in 2018, according to The Des Moines Register.

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• In what some have characterized as an unrealistic denial of the economic impact Northeast U.S. transportation systems have on the U.S.

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• President Donald Trump on Monday submitted a $4.7 trillion 2020 budget proposal to Congress for the fiscal year that begins Oct.

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• New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced last week that the state has selected three design-build teams to bid on a $750 million replacement for the Wadsworth Center Laboratory in Albany, New York.

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• OSHA has cited and fined PCL Construction Services Inc., headquartered in Edmonton, Ontario, and Orlando, Florida-based Universal Engineering Sciences Inc.

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• The U.S. Department of Labor’s OSHA announced on Tuesday that it has cited a Pennsylvania contractor for several excavation-related violations and proposed that it pay a total of $208,560 in fines.

Operational and other losses peppered engineering and construction columbus oh dump truck company McDermott International’s fourth-quarter and 2018 earnings report released at the end of last month, forcing columbus oh dump truck company officials to announce a net loss of $2.8 billion for Q4 and a $2.7 billion net loss for the full year.

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• The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) filed suit against a Boston-based contractor, alleging that the columbus oh dump truck company took retaliatory measures against one of its employees — facilitating his U.S.

Getting voters on board with the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority’s (Sound Transit) $54 billion plan to improve and expand mass transit in and around Seattle was a hard sell in 2016, but ultimately successful.

It could be a new day for labor relations in New York City with the announcement that developer Related Cos. and the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New (BCTC) have struck a deal, in essence, to play nice.

A healthy level of optimism on the part of construction executives, or among leaders in any industry for that matter, is very telling. They are "on the ground" running their businesses and are in a position to see early signs of a downturn.

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• The Florida DOT has short-listed three design-build firms, one of which will win the $814 million contract to design and build a new span next to the existing Interstate 275 Howard Frankland Bridge that connects Tampa and St.

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• The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Arizona Daily Star reported, has confirmed that it will issue a water permit for the $2 billion Rosemont Copper mine southeast of Tucson, Arizona, allowing construction to move forward.

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• A North Dakota contractor says his columbus oh dump truck company can build a 234-mile barrier system along the U.S.

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• Even the scaled-down version of the bullet train that California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently proposed could come up $1 billion to $3 billion short, a Los Angeles Times analysis suggests.

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• U.K.-based contractor Morrison Utility Services is piloting exoskeletons as part of a program exploring the health, safety, well-being and productivity benefits of the wearable technology, according to a press release.

Uncertainty is the theme for construction companies in 2019 as inflation, trade disputes and a host of other risks threaten to thwart the industry’s growth streak in 2020 or soon thereafter.

The pervasive shortage of construction workers has led some in the industry to target women for recruitment. But women don’t seem to be choosing the construction industry, at least not in the numbers that some have hoped for and not in the trades, where workers are desperately needed.

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• Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-K.Y., announced that President Donald Trump had personally assured him that he will include a $400 million-plus request for a new $900 million Veterans Affairs hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, in his 2020 budget request to Congress set to be released this month.

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• The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) on Feb. 28 approved a new budget of more than $3.2 billion for Section 3 of the Westside Purple Line Extension project, a figure that is more than double the original projection of $1.4 billion.

The Miami-based contractor that was installing a pedestrian bridge at Florida International University in Miami a year ago when it collapsed has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

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• San Diego State University announced Thursday that it has chosen Clark Construction to design and build a new $250 million multi-use stadium at the school’s Mission Valley campus in San Diego.

It has been more than a year since Kansas City, Missouri, officials and voters decided they would build a new terminal at the Kansas City International Airport, and it looks like they might finally be able to see construction start.

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