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• Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb has signed off on two major subsidies totaling $390 million for Indiana sports facility construction, the Associated Press reported.

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• The Hawaii State legislature passed a measure that will provide $3.4 billion for the state’s capital improvement projects.

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• The Canadian hotel development pipeline, according to Colliers International Hotels’ 2019 Canadian Hotel Investment Report, is expected to see 2.7% growth in 2019, a 10-year high from that metric’s annual average growth of approximately 1%.

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• Operating Engineers 324 (OE324) in Michigan announced this week that it has ratified a new five-year highway, bridge and airport agreement with the Michigan Union Contractors Group, a new association of Michigan road columbus oh dump truck company that has taken over as negotiating partner with OE324.

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• Dallas-based Jacobs Engineering Group ranks No. 1 on Engineering News-Record’s 2019 Top 500 Design Firms revenue rankings based on design services performed in 2018.

Automation is picking up the pace in the construction industry with a newly announced partnership to bring autonomous vehicles to the columbus oh dump trucks rental market.

A record level of mergers and acquisitions in the engineering and construction sectors has U.S. companies navigating an entirely new competitive landscape, finds a new report from FMI Capital Advisors Inc.

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• An Orlando, Florida, developer recently announced his $23 million contract to purchase the existing Orlando Fashion Square mall site and demolish the struggling shopping center to make way for a $1 billion mixed-use development, the Orlando Sentinel reported.

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• During an April 26 press conference, Dorval Carter Jr., president of the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), said the agency's $2.1 billion Red and Purple Line Modernization (RPM) program, its largest capital project ever, is one step closer to getting underway, Curbed Chicago reported.

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• An unsuccessful bidder in the most recent $976 million award round of U.S.-Mexico border wall contracts has filed a formal protest with the U.S.

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• President Andres Manuel López Obrador of Mexico announced that construction of the new 72 billion peso (U.S. $3.8 billion) Felipe Ángeles Airport at Santa Lucía Air Force Base north of Mexico City will begin in June, the Mexico Daily News reported.

The societal narrative that great careers require a four-year degree is doing a disservice to the construction and manufacturing industries as well as to young people across the country, argued panelists at the recent Boys and Girls Clubs of America’s Great Think: Workforce Readiness event in Washington, D.C.

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• A shift from levying tariffs to enforcing quotas on imported steel is likely as the U.S.

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• While crews were disassembling a tower crane sitting atop a portion of a new Google campus building under construction in Seattle, the crane fell onto the street below, killing four people and injuring others, The Seattle Times reported.

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• The Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) has unveiled ChiStreetWork, an online portal to inform the public about current construction and road repair projects, newly resurfaced streets and special event permit information.

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• Construction, design and modular manufacturing firm Skender has announced a deal with Z Modular to build multifamily housing components using Z Modular’s proprietary VectorBloc system.

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• The board of directors for the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority (Illinois Tollway) earlier this month awarded six construction and engineering contracts totaling $228.7 million, including one valued at $184.6 million for bridge reconstruction on the Tri-State Tollway.

Project labor agreements (PLAs) are a frequent point of contention in the construction industry, particularly when private columbus oh dump truck company are forced to sign these typically union-negotiated deals.

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• The Massachusetts DOT and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) announced Monday that Phase 1 of the $1 billion South Coast Rail project, which will connect Boston and the southeast region of the state via commuter train, now has a completed financial plan and has secured a critical U.S.

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• The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Fort Worth district office has issued a Prequalification of Sources notice for columbus oh dump truck company interested in bidding on up to $8 billion of future U.S.

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• The University of Akron in Ohio is suing design-build contractor HNTB Ohio and others who participated in the construction of InfoCision Stadium–Summa Field, alleging it has had to pay $1 million to fix “catastrophic” construction defects plaguing the 10-year-old football stadium.

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• PCL Construction and CopperTree Analytics Inc. recently announced their partnership to embed data and energy analytics services into new and existing buildings during the construction process.

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• Digital 3D scans taken by an art history professor in 2015 may prove critical in efforts to rebuild the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France, which lost its spire and much of its roof to a fire last week.

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• New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has introduced the city’s $14 billion Green New Deal as part of a plan to reduce greenhouse emissions 30% by 2030.

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• Virgin Trains USA, formerly Brightline, could soon begin construction on its $4 billion, 170-mile rail expansion from West Palm Beach to Orlando, Florida, thanks to a $1.7 billion private activity bond sale last week.

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• Marriott International announced it will build the world’s tallest modular hotel in New York City, the $65 million, 360-foot tall AC Hotel New York NoMad.

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• Marriott International announced it will build the world’s tallest modular hotel in New York City, the $65 million, 360-foot tall AC Hotel New York NoMad.

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• Developers of the Seattle Center Arena (formerly the KeyArena) told members of the press last week that the costs of the overhaul had risen by $50 million to $900 million and that completion had been pushed another few months to at least June 2021, KOMO News reported.

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• The Michigan Attorney General's Office is looking into a construction worker's death, according to the Detroit Free Press, after questions have arisen about whether he committed suicide while working on the Little Caesars Arena in Detroit or if his fatal fall was accidental.

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• Steven Witkoff, the New York City-based developer of The Drew Las Vegas, will delay the $3.1 billion project completion target by almost two years, to 2022, while he solidifies the final construction budget, according to Bloomberg.

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• The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation cited Legoland New York's owner and columbus oh dump truck company with 22 new violations this month in an effort to prevent continuing discharge of construction runoff from the $500 million project into local waterways, the Tribune Herald-Record reported.

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• Construction crews, led by contractor McCarthy Building Cos. and construction manager Tré​ Builders, have started concrete columbus oh dump truck company on the Circa Resort & Casino in downtown Las Vegas, Casino News Daily reported.

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• Carla Reid, the general manager of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC), has penned a letter to Kevin Quinn, head of the Maryland Transit Administration (MTA), asking the agency to stop construction on a portion of the nearly $6 billion Purple Line light-rail project, claiming it threatens a critical water distribution main in Prince George’s County, Maryland, The Washington Post reported.

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• Gilbane | Exyte, general contractor for the $10 billion Foxconn LCD manufacturing complex in Racine County, Wisconsin, has issued the first invitation to bid for the plant portion of the project.

Roughly three-quarters of columbus oh dump truck company believe that internet of things (IoT) technologies like wearables and sensors can help them mitigate occupational risks such as construction defects, general liability and property damage, according to a new report from Dodge Data & Analytics in partnership with Triax Technologies and IRMI.

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• The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has authorized the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (Sound Transit) to move the $3.1 billion, 7.8-mile Federal Way Link light-rail extension into the engineering phase.

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• There have been three construction-related deaths in New York City already this month, and city council member Robert Cornegy Jr.

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• The Florida DOT announced earlier this month that Astaldi Construction Corp. has voluntarily defaulted on four state highway projects (details here, here and here).

OSHA was as active as ever this quarter inspecting jobsites and doling out fines to construction companies that subject their workers to hazards, and that activity might be increasing soon.

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• General contractor Tutor Perini Corp., in a letter published in the San Francisco Examiner, countered San Francisco Municipal Transit Authority allegations that it is responsible for delays to the authority's $1.6 billion Central Subway project.

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• U.S. Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan directed the Pentagon to identify by May 10 which military construction projects can be delayed in order to fund $3.6 billion of barrier construction under President Donald Trump’s Feb.

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• Rep. John Larson, a Democrat from Connecticut, and Rep. Kenny Marchant, a Republican from Texas, have introduced the "Invest in America Act," an infrastructure initiative that could draw $125 billion in investment and create 284,000 jobs, according to the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and The Real Estate Roundtable.

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• The Sacramento City Council voted unanimously Thursday to approve the terms for a $252 million soccer stadium, a move that will help the Sacramento Republic FC and the city meet the requirements for a Major League Soccer expansion award.

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• Capital Rail Constructors (CRC), the general contractor building Phase 2 of the Washington, D.C.-area Metrorail’s $5.8 billion Silver Line, has informed the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority that concrete pedestals supporting one station are cracking, The Washington Post reported.

Selling your company’s services to prospective clients is challenging. While there’s a strong market for construction columbus oh dump truck company and plenty of jobs to be won, competition is fierce and it can seem like owners are fixated on price.

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• With a 31-14 vote, the Chicago City Council has approved the tax increment financing (TIF) plan that allows Sterling Bay’s $6 billion mixed-use development to move forward, but not before requiring the developer to make additional concessions.

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• OSHA has cited a Jacksonville, Florida, roofing contractor with one willful violation for exposing its employees to fall hazards and has proposed the columbus oh dump truck company pay a fine of $132,598.

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• During a hearing for civil lawsuits filed in connection with the March 15, 2018, Florida International University (FIU) bridge collapse in Miami, lawyers presented documents suggesting that project engineers said cracks in the structure posed no safety concern just hours before the collapse, NBC 6 Miami reported.

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• Amazon, according to unnamed sources, has selected the joint venture of Whiting-Turner and Kokosing Construction Co. to build its new $1.5 billion CVG Amazon Air cargo hub at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in Hebron, Kentucky, The Cincinnati Business Courier reported.

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• Construction costs in San Francisco, according to management and consulting firm Turner & Townsend’s "2019 International Construction Market Survey,” were the highest in the world at the end of 2018 at an average of $416 per square foot and 5% higher than 2017.

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• A New York City construction worker was killed this week after a stone slab reportedly struck him in the head as he was repairing the facade of a 14-story residential building in Manhattan, The New York Times reported.

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• With a unanimous 94-0 vote, the Washington House of Representatives passed a $4.6 billion 2019-2021 capital construction bill, according to a press release from the state's House Democrats.

WASHINGTON—Union leaders and some of their congressional advocates are convening at North America’s Building Trades Unions’ 2019 Legislative Conference this week, and the need for infrastructure investment has been the resounding theme.

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The University of Idaho has one architectural marvel on its campus with the "Kibbie Dome," a sports arena that dates to the 1970s and whose inside has been likened to a tin can cut in half, thanks to its arched roof of wood-and-steel trusses.

If one were to go strictly by the headlines, it might seem as if all new light-rail lines were either doomed to run over their budgets or to hit legal and regulatory roadblocks that push back opening days by months or even years.

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• The Minnesota DOT has announced that $1.2 billion of transit-related projects will kick off in 2019. More than 200 highway, road and bridge columbus oh dump truck company projects will collectively total more than $1.1 billion, and airport, port, transit and railroad projects, according to Finance & Commerce, have an approximate value of $56 million.