Feds plan to demand more mileage from construction, other heavy trucks

President Obama has upped the fuel-efficiency effort for medium and heavy trucks, which already have to get as much as 20% better mileage by 2018.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 18, 2014

Medium for Fla. project is curved tilt-up concrete

A corporate headquarters in West Palm Beach called for a curved concrete wall all across the front, with two stories of manufacturing behind.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 17, 2014

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Careful collaboration before shovels hit dirt is key to a successful project, experts say.

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Builders see multifamily continuing to lead recovery

At the International Builders' Show, a panel on multifamily housing concluded that despite a potential slowdown, it will still do better than predicted.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 17, 2014

Start planned this year on transit-oriented Atlanta-area project

KDC is the developer for the project, which will have 2.2 million square feet of office space serviced by a 200-room hotel and other amenities in Dunwoody.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 17, 2014

Graves force Ole Miss to park hospital garage on another site

The discovery of as many as 1,000 graves forced the university to find a new location for its medical center's planned parking garage.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 14, 2014

Robots taking over job sites? Harvard engineers working on it

At Harvard University, engineers are experimenting with robots working in a team the way individual termites follow scent trails.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 13, 2014

Fla. congressman ready to pull government out of VA hospital project

A hospital that the Department of Veterans Affairs hospital has been trying to build in Orlando is far behind schedule and far over budget, and Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., says he's had it.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 13, 2014

Officials call for Okla. school storm shelters

The death of seven elementary school students in Moore, Okla., in May 2013 has officials in Tulsa considering a requirement for storm shelters in new schools.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 13, 2014

Rising demand for construction jobs spurs renovations at LSU College of Engineering

Louisiana State University saw a need to upgrade its engineering campus, and individual and corporate donors appear to agree as the school closes its fund-raising campaign early.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 13, 2014

Olympics construction got $8B, but one village got the shaft

The Russian government made a big bet on Sochi and the mountain venue of Krasnaya Polyana, but the people in Akhshtyr got orders not to cross a new highway.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 12, 2014

Construction crew digs up mammoth tusk in Seattle

Excavating for pipe became excavating for paleontology when a worker's shovel uncovered a bone from a Columbian mammoth in a Seattle neighborhood.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 12, 2014

State-of-the-art tech brings more money under MAP-21 incentive program

Some parts of the MAP-21 highway-funding program enacted in 2012 requires some innovations by state transportation agencies and offers extra funding to encourage others.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 12, 2014

Concrete repairs and construction with 3-D printed parts?

New York City's Economic Development Corp. gave an award to a company that devised 3-D concrete repair parts for seawalls.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 11, 2014

Worker falls as three others dangle in air in Fla. scaffold collapse

The worker who fell is expected to survive.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 11, 2014

Pa. management company in trouble with IRS, union, contractor

FBI agents visited PCM Construction Management's offices in Moosic last week, and a construction company has sued for $256,000.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 11, 2014

Old info helps speed repairs to quake-shaken Washington Monument

The companies contracted to assess and repair damage from a 2011 earthquake leveraged existing data and employed new technology.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 11, 2014

Court decisions trend sees insurers covering construction defects

In several recent rulings from top state courts, judges have been finding that, legally, construction defects are "accidents" and damages should be covered by insurance.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 11, 2014

Obamacare change may help contractors, builders

The Obama administration is putting penalties off until 2016 for companies with 50 to 99 full-time workers if the employers are not providing health insurance.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 10, 2014

Contractors sign up to hire 100,000 veterans by 2019

The White House and the Department of Labor say more than 100 U.S. companies have agreed to put 100,000 veterans to work in construction over the next five years.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 10, 2014

Is a N.Y. liability law killing jobs and preventing construction?

An opinion piece in the New York Post argues that New York State's "scaffold law" makes construction expensive enough to prevent some projects from happening.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 10, 2014

Design for French development puts parking between stores and housing

Architects Brisac Gonzalez came up with the idea for a development in Bordeaux that would make parking for 450 cars the meat in a sandwich with retail space at ground level and 19 apartments on top.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 10, 2014

CBRE Adds Former Walker & Dunlop Guru

JACKSONVILLE, FL—During his tenure at W&D, Phil Rachels was responsible for arranging financing and institutional equity investments totaling more than $2.2 billion.

Feb. 10, 2014

Nissan concept truck: Diesel for the Frontier pickup

At the Chicago Auto Show, Nissan has a Frontier pickup with a 2.8-liter, four-cylinder Cummins diesel under the hood and an eight-speed automatic behind that.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 9, 2014

Construction jobs added in Jan., but jobless rate also rises

Nonresidential construction contributed almost 48% of the hiring in January as 48,100 more people found work, but the industry's unemployment ticked up.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 9, 2014

California contractor Bernards announces executive restructuring

The family business now has a second name at the top, with Jeff G. Bernards taking the duties of president while his brother, Doug, steps out of that role to function as just chief executive officer.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 7, 2014