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

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Data center construction

New projects from customers like Meta, Google and Amazon make this a burgeoning sector for contractors.

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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

Panama Canal owner say project ready to move on without contractor

There are at most a few days to get work going again with contractor consortium Grupo Unidos Por el Canal.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 7, 2014

Reed Construction Data to launch DOT project database

Reed Construction Data has decided to offer its clients a new information product – data on all 50 states' DOT projects valued at $100,000 or more.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 6, 2014

St. Louis contractor claims union campaign led to death threat

The Carpenters' District Council has run a "shaming" campaign against Raineri Construction, and now they are in court after the owner says he felt his life was threatened.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 6, 2014

Military can now go for gold – and platinum – in LEED projects

The spending authorization law that Congress passed for the rest of this fiscal year dropped all bans on the Department of Defense building anything above LEED silver.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 6, 2014

Contracts may allow speeding up work to avoid delays down the road

if you can see a delay coming, the client may agree to have you speed up work before it happens, but there are some legal requirements for getting paid more for doing it.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 6, 2014

Ram pickups earn top scores in EPA mileage rankings

If fuel economy is a consideration in buying pickups, it's worth knowing that Ram scored 28 mpg on the highway in EPA tests for 2014 models.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 5, 2014

Reuse of Atlanta building adds literal meaning to 'high' school

Each of the four grades in the new North Atlanta High School gets two color-coded and stair-connected floors, and a new building brings two theaters, two gyms and music rooms.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 5, 2014

Panama Canal work runs aground over construction dispute

The consortium building the Panama Canal expansion sent workers home Wednesday while the Panama Canal Authority said demands that it cover overruns were "blackmail."

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 5, 2014

Oregon, two contractors sued in woman's death at construction site

Joy Groh's car got stuck near a ferry reconstruction project, and then she fell into a pit on the site, broke her ankle and died in the cold.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 4, 2014

Engineer arrested in Canadian mall roof collapse

The collapse in 2012 killed two people and injured a third, and provincial police now have charged Robert Wood with criminal negligence.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 4, 2014