July 8, 2013 – Rock Products’ legal editors are moving to a new firm! Attorneys Henry Chajet, Mark Savit, Brian Hendrix, Robert Horn and Avi Meyerstein have moved to Jackson Lewis, one of the nation’s most prestigious workplace law firms. They have joined forces with Jackson Lewis’ 750+ attorneys practicing in 53 locations throughout the United States.
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Rock Products Named Top Level VIP Publication
Mining Media International is pleased to announce that The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) has awarded Rock Products its exclusive “Top Level VIP” supporting publication status for the ConExpo-Con/Agg 2014 show in Las Vegas. This designation is only given to publications that are able to provide the wide audience and extensive targeted content that is critical to the success of…
Read MoreNation’s Road Conditions Show Slight Improvement
The Reason Foundation’s Annual Highway Report measures the condition and cost-effectiveness of state-owned roads in 11 categories, including pavement condition on urban and rural Interstates, urban traffic congestion, deficient bridges, unsafe narrow lanes, traffic fatalities, total spending per mile of state roads and administrative costs per mile. The study’s rankings are based on data that states reported to the federal…
Read MoreFMI Releases Q2-2013 Construction Outlook Report
FMI, a leading provider of management consulting and investment banking to the engineering and construction industry, releases its Q2-2013 Construction Outlook. The strength of individual markets is shifting, reducing annual Construction-Put-In-Place predictions to $913 billion, a 7 percent growth from 2012. This is down nearly $6 billion from the $918,897 million, 8 percent growth estimated in the Q1’s Outlook. However,…
Read More255 Metros Listed as Improving Housing Markets
A total of 255 metropolitan areas across 49 states and the District of Columbia qualified to be listed on the National Association of Home Builders/First American Improving Markets Index (IMI) for July, released today. This is down slightly from the 263 metros that made the list in June, but is more than triple the number of metros that were on…
Read MoreMcLanahan Expands Into India
In an effort to increase support of its custom-engineered process solutions to customers in its global markets, McLanahan Corp. has formed an overseas joint venture.
Read MoreHouse And Senate Committees Approve FY’14 Transportation Bills
House and Senate appropriators passed competing FY’14 Transportation and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations bills within hours of each other June 27, setting up the possibility that both spending measures will see floor time in July. Despite a day of impressive productivity for the committees, the bills as written are more than $10 billion apart in spending levels provided for…
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