Savings on site investigations can prove expensive later

Finding out about wet soils, unexpected rock, utility conflicts, hazardous materials and other issues can prove that savings a little on site investigation can cost a lot later.

By Ron Gallagher • July 23, 2013

Do you doubt the value of BIM? Check out this survey

This COAA survey showed that BIM demand is real when keeping up with design and construction issues.

By Ron Gallagher • July 23, 2013

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Recruiting, retention and training in construction

A roundup on articles focus on recruiting and retention for construction.

By Construction Dive staff

Even with a 1% slip, June construction starts help pull up the Dodge Index

The Dodge Momentum Index, compiled by McGraw Hill Construction, had been running behind 2012 during the first four months of this year, but May and June readings showed promise.

By Ron Gallagher • July 22, 2013

After 40 years, downtown Akron, Ohio, will see hotel construction

A group of local business people have created a partnership that they say will bring a 160-room hotel to the Rubber City.

By Ron Gallagher • July 22, 2013

Mass. contractor renews annual training program for DBE subcontractors

Boston-based Suffolk Construction is going for a second year of bringing in subcontractors that are state-certified as disadvantaged.

By Ron Gallagher • July 22, 2013

Fannie Mae thinkers see growth in 2013's second half despite interest rate rise

Economists at Fannie Mae say they expect second-half growth to grow this year, pulled by continuing residential recovery and consumer optimism.

By Ron Gallagher • July 22, 2013

Virginia's Pentagon City will get largest apartment building yet

Vornado is betting on sustained demand in the Washington, D.C. area.

By Ron Gallagher • July 22, 2013

Equipment makers, fleet managers closing in on a telematics agreement

It appears that the folks who make heavy equipment and the folks who use it are going to be able to agree on who should know what via data transmissions.

By Ron Gallagher • July 21, 2013

Contractors' hiring-pool plan gets court backing, but it's only one case

A federal appeals court upheld a centralized hiring pool that independent electricians ran in Houston, but the ruling was a reversal of an NLRB action, not a general blessing of the idea.

By Ron Gallagher • July 21, 2013

Here's a business plan: Find the right customers. Keep them coming back

Part of the reason Birmingham, Ala.-based contractor Stewart Perry came through the recession was a longtime plan to find customers it could serve well and and that were long-term sources of work.

By Ron Gallagher • July 19, 2013

JLL report sees commercial construction beginning to join the recovery

While everyone has been cheering for the housing industry as it contributes to a national economic recovery, commercial construction is just now getting underway, Jones Lang LaSalle says.

By Ron Gallagher • July 19, 2013

Contractors urging Congress to beat EPA to fly ash rules

The clock is ticking with numerous construction operations likely to be impacted.

By Ron Gallagher • July 19, 2013

Skanksa, robots and China: This week's most read construction news

Head into your weekend better informed with this weeks most popular Construction Dive posts.

By Brian Warmoth • July 19, 2013

Fed's latest national economic report is good on construction, real estate

The latest Beige Book—the Federal Reserve's eight-time-a-year look at the economy across its regions—has good, if modest, things to say about construction.

By Ron Gallagher • July 18, 2013

Look for new OSHA rules on silica dust by month's end

The American Subcontractors Association expects new permissible levels of silica-dust exposure for construction workers to be issued by July 31.

By Ron Gallagher • July 18, 2013

Clients will need contractors' help if inflation takes hold in U.S.

Looking at construction from the customers' side, two Leopardo Cos. executives explain what pressures on projects will come if inflation accompanies recovery.

By Ron Gallagher • July 18, 2013

LEGO has a humdinger for you if you like building in your off-hours, too

The company that rules the world in plastic-brick building is bringing out a 2,989-brick $300-plus version of the Sydney Opera House.

By Ron Gallagher • July 18, 2013

Multifamily drags down June housing starts and permits

Multifamily housing, always more volatile than the single-family market, pulled June housing starts and building permits down 9.9% and 7.5%, respectively.

By Ron Gallagher • July 18, 2013

Another bright idea: An iPhone app to help light your site

Available for iPad and iPhone, the app lets you bring up a satellite image of the construction area and experiment with various arrangements and types of lighting.

By Ron Gallagher • July 17, 2013

Less sulfur in diesel means bigger explosion risk, machinery-makers warn

The Association of Equipment Manufacturers says that newly-required low-sulfur diesel cannot dissipate static electricity as well as the old, so proper fueling is critical.

By Ron Gallagher • July 17, 2013

Real estate giant CBRE funds research on commercial green building

CBRE set up a program to put $1 million into research into real-world opportunities and effects of green building, and the company has selected five projects to back.

By Ron Gallagher • July 17, 2013

Public-private plan for Nev. highway project breaks new ground

In need of I-15 improvements in Las Vegas that would suck up too much of the state's bonding capability, Nevada is going with a 35-year public-private partnership.

By Ron Gallagher • July 16, 2013

Robots in construction: How soon, how much?

Even people who do not like the idea seem to agree that robots will play some role in construction as we go forward.

By Ron Gallagher • July 15, 2013

Architects, engineers don't really know about demolition, industry group tells Pa.

Pennsylvania is looking at regulations in the wake of the June collapse that killed six in Philadelphia, but the NDA wants a second opinion.

By Ron Gallagher • July 15, 2013

Materials prices finish second quarter with almost no increase

Construction materials prices as a whole finished June down 0.1% from May and are just about even with the first quarter of the year, federal figures show.

By Ron Gallagher • July 15, 2013