Commercial Building: Page 281
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Confused global copper market works to contractors' benefit
Lower prices for wire and transformers are helping restrain the IHS PEG Engineering and Construction Cost Index.
By Ron Gallagher • April 29, 2014 -
Texas school construction costs total $14B over last 7 years
A database created by state Comptroller Susan Combs shows how local schools spent on construction over the past seven years.
By Ron Gallagher • April 29, 2014 -
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TrendlineTop 5 stories from Construction Dive
Construction Dive editors curate some of the industry’s top stories from this year.
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Bad omens: Architects' billings fall in March index
The index, a leading indicator of construction, slipped under 50 last month after going up for two months, putting an increased focus on this month's results.
By Ron Gallagher • April 28, 2014 -
Construction employment up in 197 U.S. metro areas
Despite the gains, a breakdown of federal jobs data shows few areas are back to where they were before the recession.
By Ron Gallagher • April 28, 2014 -
Architects design hotel made of shipping containers
OVA Studios in Hong Kong conceived of the Hive, perhaps to win a radical design award.
By Ron Gallagher • April 28, 2014 -
Historic Detroit apartments to become affordable housing
In Midtown Detroit, a coalition of a neighborhood development corporation and multiple funders are redeveloping apartment buildings believed to date from 1918 and 1924.
By Ron Gallagher • April 28, 2014 -
New 'solar roadway' technology could disrupt road-building
In a parking lot in Sagle, Idaho, a prototype road surface offers the prospect of generating electricity from roadways paved in glass.
By Ron Gallagher • April 27, 2014 -
Denver Broncos shut out fans during training camp renovations
Construction at Broncos training camp at Dove Valley require them to keep away fans for safety's sake.
By Ron Gallagher • April 27, 2014 -
How new immigration policies can help construction
Skilled and unskilled, workers are in short supply – sometimes no supply – for construction, and builders are advocates for doing something – anything – to address the problem.
By Ron Gallagher • April 25, 2014 -
Drones: A new way of documenting building progress
These are not spycraft. These are battery-powered, multi-rotor fliers strong enough to take a DSLR camera places people cannot go.
By Ron Gallagher • April 25, 2014 -
Foam flecks in floor puzzle concrete polishers
Concrete Innovations was polishing a store floor when it found puzzling materials in the concrete that turned out to be from wall insulation.
By Ron Gallagher • April 24, 2014 -
3-D printer cranks out materials for 10 buildings in one day
A Chinese company with a huge 3-D printer squirted out building blocks from concrete and recycled materials for simple but workable structures.
By Ron Gallagher • April 24, 2014 -
LEGO museum still on paper, but now you can build it yourself
LEGO commissioned a museum for its home town in Denmark from architects Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), and you can be the contractor with the company's new kit.
By Ron Gallagher • April 24, 2014 -
For sale in Manhattan: Thin air for $305 per square foot
That was the average last year, anyway, for air above shorter building that developers can "move" to their properties to get taller structures approved.
By Ron Gallagher • April 24, 2014 -
Calif. would hang subcontractor's wage, tax duties on the prime if sub fails
An amendment to a bill in the California Assembly would make it a contractor's problem if a sub didn't pay wages, remit taxes and the like.
By Ron Gallagher • April 23, 2014 -
Backhoe's rated lift capacity is far from the whole story
Generally, the manufacturer's top-load specification is measured with the boom in one position, but it's less elsewhere.
By Ron Gallagher • April 23, 2014 -
Florida names Skanska-led team for $2.3B highway project
The state said Wednesday that a contract for $2.3 billion will go to a consortium led by Skanska USA.
By Ron Gallagher • April 23, 2014 -
Three hurt as Calif. road project gets off to bad start
Three workers were injured by a board thrown by a truck in a work zone on the first day of the The "Fix 50" project to improve U.S. 50 in Sacramento.
By Ron Gallagher • April 23, 2014 -
Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards struggles to get modular high-rises off the ground
In the Atlantic Yards development where the Brooklyn Nets now play, turning modular units into 32 stories of housing may be proving tougher than hitting a buzzer-beating basket from half-court.
By Ron Gallagher • April 23, 2014 -
Concrete company pays DOJ to make hiring complaint go away
Potter Concrete Ltd. ran into Justice Department allegations that it was asking non-citizen job applicants for different paperwork than it asked from citizens.
By Ron Gallagher • April 22, 2014 -
Busted Bertha brings Seattle tunnel project to 16-month standstill
North America's largest tunnel-boring machine is damaged and needs the one other main bearing made for it.
By Ron Gallagher • April 22, 2014 -
Construction rises 7% in March after two troubled months
Total starts were up 7% from February, but the first quarter wound up being down 2% from 2013, and weather is again catching much of the blame.
By Ron Gallagher • April 22, 2014 -
At age 50, Dallas bank tower headed for new role as residential building
The 52-story First National Bank tower in downtown Dallas is going under the redeveloper's knife.
By Ron Gallagher • April 21, 2014 -
10 best practices for design-build
The Design-Build Institute of America says the arrangement now accounts for 40% of all non-residential design and construction being done today.
By Ron Gallagher • April 21, 2014 -
What can golf teach the construction business?
A few take-homes from time spent watching the best golfers ply their craft at Augusta National Golf Club.
By Ron Gallagher • April 21, 2014
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