Climate controlled offices may be getting even more efficient

A multipurpose window device created by architects with NBBJ, based in Columbus, Ohio, is intended to obviate the too-cold/too-hot complaints of workers in large buildings.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 12, 2014

Small contractors gripe about schools' use of manager at-risk method

The school system in Wake County, North Carolina, which includes the capital of Raleigh, have used the method for years, but small contractors say they get locked out.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 11, 2014

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Trade group issues maintenance guide as lifts stay in service longer

The International Power Access Federation is campaigning for across-the-board safety regulations in the use of construction lifts.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 11, 2014

Canadian engineering firm offers guide to battling thermal bridging

The company, Morrison Hershfield, has pulled together information on how contractors can predict and reduce the leakage of heat through insulated structure surfaces.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 11, 2014

London apartments built on-stilts, to hover over existing housing

An architect has designed a 15-story apartment building that stands on stilts above a three-story one on the site now, an unusual use of a longstanding building technique,

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 11, 2014

DOT to give 21 states emergency road money

The funds, totaling $333.9 million, are for highway damage done by natural disasters and will not draw down the recently propped-up Highway Trust Fund.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 10, 2014

LEGO for the professional market: The Architecture Studio set

The new set, comprising of 76 components among its 1,200 pieces, is an adult tool as much as a child's toy.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 8, 2014

Toll road made from an English field eases driver frustrations

When construction closed a road between Bath and Bristol, a businessman and a farmer built a 500-yard toll road through fields to offer a paid alternative to the free 14-mile detour.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 7, 2014

Local team gets the nod for NOLA airport project

A local group of businesses has been selected in second round efforts to renovate the New Orleans' Louis Armstrong International Airport.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 7, 2014

Is making calls from the truck risky? Virginia Tech says 'yes'

Research funded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration showed that talking isn't dangerous, but making the call is a bad driving idea.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 7, 2014

Dodge index retreats in July, but remains well ahead of 2013

McGraw Hill Construction's Dodge Momentum Index for nonresidential construction fell 4.4% from June, but the company says that may just be a spring rush easing back to normal.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 7, 2014

No one is letting Congress off the hook because Highway Trust Fund patch passed

Lawmakers better think again if they thought they were leaving Washington this month in good graces, as transportation interests are demanding they get right back to work on a long-term solution.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 7, 2014

MIT research opens door to understanding how bonded materials fail

Bonded materials are a wonder of modern science and have proved themselves useful and valuable in a lot of fields, including construction, but can fail – and no one has been able to explain just why.  

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 7, 2014

Industry groups' economists modestly optimistic for rest of 2014

Some sectors are seeing more growth than others, according to the number-crunchers at Associated Builders and Contractors, the American Institute of Architects and the National Association of Home Builders.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 7, 2014

New IL laws put $1.1B into multi-year highway program

Gov. Pat Quinn signed bills that authorize the money for the Department of Transportation's 2015-2020 capital program and bonding to raise it.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 7, 2014

Virginia county may leave LEED behind as it weighs costs

It's been the rule in Loudoun County since 2008 that new county buildings have to meet LEED Silver standards, but a recent project has supervisors asking questions.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 7, 2014

Paper trail moved to cloud for Daytona Speedway renovations

General contractor Barton Malow took the whole $400 million job into the cloud, and everything involved is wholly online.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 6, 2014

Renovating NOLA's airport: Bell rings for Round 2 in effort to pick contractor

The New Orleans airport authority is trying for a second time to select a contractor for renovations after the first review committee was mired in controversy. 

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 5, 2014

Majority stake sold in troubled Brooklyn project

Greenland USA makes a deal for 70% of the project, but Atlantic Yards is now Pacific Park Brooklyn.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 5, 2014

Smoky fire at hotel renovation sends seven workers to hospital

The crew was working Monday in a century-old hotel building in San Francisco that closed last year for upgrades.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 4, 2014

Flaggers on Iowa bridge project keep waiting drivers smiling

The pair know they're holding up people in a work zone on Iowa 17, so they have adopted a pay-it-forward strategy.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 4, 2014

Facebook's prefab data centers cut construction time, costs

The company has come up with its own "rapid deployment" standardized design and assembly method to put up data centers across the globe.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 4, 2014

Feds charge steel erector with fraud for One World Trade Center work

Federal agents arrested Larry Davis, who owns DCM Erectors Inc., saying he used a minority-owned firm and a woman-owned company as fronts to quality for work performed by his firm.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 4, 2014

Elderly woman's unhappiness with nearby construction leads to armed standoff

A 90-year-old woman pointed a shotgun at construction workers in Channelview, Texas.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 3, 2014

June construction spending down, but May better than reported

Construction spending reported by the Commerce Department illustrates why no one should panic over one month's data.

By Ron Gallagher • Aug. 3, 2014