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

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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

Economists: 2014 construction outlook is mostly sunny

Three economists agree the economy is doing better, but they had some differences on where housing will go this year.

By Ron Gallagher • April 20, 2014

March construction employment figures changed little from Feb.

Federal data showed 24 states and the District of Columbia added jobs, but 23 states lost them.

By Ron Gallagher • April 20, 2014

Saudi Arabia to build world's tallest building

Saudi Arabia plans to start work this week to eclipse the Burj Khalifa.

By Ron Gallagher • April 20, 2014

With $4M payment, Wis. contractor resolves FBI allegations

Court documents made public this week show that Miron Construction Co. Inc. settled a case involving work for school districts.

By Ron Gallagher • April 17, 2014

Report: Oil and gas will employ 10% of construction workforce by 2017

FMI figures the ever-burgeoning energy industry that employed 6.4% of construction workers in 2012 will keep needing more. 

By Ron Gallagher • April 17, 2014

Top U.S. markets for solar installation have some surprises

The list includes such seemingly unlikely cities as Newark, N.J., Raleigh, N.C. and Boston.

By Ron Gallagher • April 16, 2014

Construction unearths a section of L.A.'s original lifeline

Digging as part of the $100 million Blossom Plaza development, construction workers seem to have found another section of the city's 1781 first channel to bring water.

By Ron Gallagher • April 16, 2014