Progress to save Highway Trust Fund in Senate

The chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee says she's looking to have a plan moving by April.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 19, 2014

Do January materials prices signal an end to stability?

Associated Builders and Contractors says the price of overall construction materials has been unusually stable for a while now.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 19, 2014

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Preconstruction

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

By Construction Dive staff

Sri Lankan tower eyeing record with top-to-bottom green

An apartment building to be completed in 2016 aims to be the world's tallest vertical garden.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 19, 2014

Dump truck touches wire, two die at contractor's yard

A dump truck driver was electrocuted when his vehicle came in contact with a power line, and his boss died trying to help him.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 19, 2014

Sentencing announced for N.Y. company, owner that shorted workers' pay

Applied Construction Inc. did not follow contract requirements on project for New York City's Department of Housing Preservation and Development.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 18, 2014

FMI index for noncommercial construction rises for this quarter

The consulting company's industry panel expects growth in business and essential hiring this year.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 18, 2014

Developers' plans turn empty Dallas downtown tower into 24-hour activity hub

A New York firm, a Dallas developer, and the city are backing a plan to recreate 52 vacant floors of offices – the First National Bank – as a thriving mixed-use project.

By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 18, 2014

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

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