Commercial Building: Page 321
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Chinese developers target Chinese-expats abroad
State-owned companies are hampered by development controls at home, and they are looking to create product elsewhere to sell to Chinese who live there.
By Ron Gallagher • March 26, 2013 -
Modern engineering keeps famous abbey on its island
The popular French tourist attraction in Normandy, a historic Benedictine abbey on an island, was in danger of becoming a victim of its own causeway.
By Ron Gallagher • March 26, 2013 -
Explore the Trendline➔
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TrendlineData center construction
New projects from customers like Meta, Google and Amazon make this a burgeoning sector for contractors.
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Transportation Dept. reverses course, to study changes in DBE rules
Federal officials got enough blow-back from the commercial construction industry about proposed rule changes for the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program to prompt a review.
By Ron Gallagher • March 26, 2013 -
Verizon, AT&T launch fleet-tracking, field info apps
The two large mobile providers are offering new products that benefit contractors.
By Ron Gallagher • March 25, 2013 -
Customer-relations software integrates social media
Companies that make software for builders to manage their relationships with customers are packaging them with social-media connections.
By Ron Gallagher • March 25, 2013 -
NLRB rules union dues check-off to continue after CBA ends
Contractors that have labor agreements which fall under a certain section of the National Labor Relations Act will not be able to stop dues check-off if contracts expire.
By Ron Gallagher • March 25, 2013 -
Construction know-how necessary for rooftop solar installs
Installing rooftop solar units requires careful attention to the roof and an understanding of how to integrate the unit with the building's electrical system.
By Ron Gallagher • March 24, 2013 -
NYC building transformed into world's tallest data storage center
The former Verizon building in lower Manhattan is being re-purposed as a data center.
By Ron Gallagher • March 24, 2013 -
Plywood makers scrambling to catch up with booming demand
For signs that there really is a recovery, just take a look at the nation's two plywood giants – Georgia-Pacific and Boise Cascade.
By Ron Gallagher • March 24, 2013 -
Swiss green-roof package snags FM Approval rating
Sika Sarnafil, a specialty chemical maker based in Baar, Switzerland, offers a package that includes waterproofing and vegetation for green roofs.
By Ron Gallagher • March 22, 2013 -
Latest numbers show dip in non-residential construction
February construction spending, calculated as an annual rate, was down 7% from January to February due to nonresidential buildings and non-building work.
By Ron Gallagher • March 22, 2013 -
Deep Dive
Most Read Construction News of the Week: Crane mayhem and wind valves
Catch up on the hottest construction news of the week with our most popular reads.
By Brian Warmoth • March 21, 2013 -
60-story 'sculpture' residence being developed in lower Manhattan
The area in New York City known as Tribeca – a name derived from "triangle below Canal" Street – is south of the landmark canyons of midtown Manhattan, but a 60-story residential tower is coming.
By Ron Gallagher • March 21, 2013 -
Nonresidential construction costs up 3.4% from 2012
Turner Construction looks at national information to come up with its quarterly assessment of what it is costing to put up new buildings.
By Ron Gallagher • March 21, 2013 -
U.S. infrastructure raises its grade — to a D+
The quadrennial rating from the American Society of Civil Engineers went up a bit for the first time since it began in 1998.
By Ron Gallagher • March 20, 2013 -
Tandem pavers save time and inspections
Known as echelon paving, the technique pus pavers side by side for wide jobs – like a runway at Port Columbus airport –and eliminates joints.
By Ron Gallagher • March 20, 2013 -
How to get your crew to do quality work — without you hovering over every project
There are ways to encourage your crews to deliver the quality of work that you want delivere to your client.
By Ron Gallagher • March 20, 2013 -
Contractors add 48K workers in Feb., best gain in long time
The construction industry's biggest one-month employment gain in almost six years came in February, and now everyone waits on Washington.
By Ron Gallagher • March 20, 2013 -
Boring machine 'Bertha' to take big bite out of Seattle
The 6,700-ton machine is being sent from Japan to chew a tunnel under downtown to replace the elevated Alaskan Way Viaduct.
By Ron Gallagher • March 20, 2013 -
89% of schools say health is reason to build green
School officials said that having a healthy environment in which kids have a chance to learn is almost as important as costs in their decisions.
By Ron Gallagher • March 19, 2013 -
Wind valves on school roofs turn hurricane dynamics upside down
Specially designed vents use the physics of forceful winds to create suction that pulls roofs more tightly into place the harder the wind blows.
By Ron Gallagher • March 19, 2013 -
Single-family home building hits best pace since 2008
The production of new housing rose from January to February, and the single-family component reached an annualized rate not seen since mid-2008.
By Ron Gallagher • March 19, 2013 -
Washington plans highway bridge over avalanche snows
The state and federal governments have signed off on a plan to put Interstate 90 on a bridge in Snoqualmie Pass and let avalanches slide underneath it.
By Ron Gallagher • March 18, 2013 -
Is the D.C. apartment building bubble about to pop?
The federal government's sequester spending cuts may impede Washington's "recession-proof" apartment boom.
By Ron Gallagher • March 18, 2013 -
U.S. Green Building Council: $271B needed to fix schools, $542B to modernize them
The U.S. Green Building Council figures it will take $271 billion just to cover deferred maintenance at U.S. schools sand a lot more to modernize them.
By Ron Gallagher • March 18, 2013
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