Assessing Candidates For Remote Jobs Requires A Non-Traditional Approach. By Steve Schumacher
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Through Numerous Events, Martin Marietta’s Cumming Quarry Brings The Community Behind The Berm To Learn About Its Operation. by Therese Dunphy
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Hello 2021, it’s good to see you. And 2020, I am very glad to see you go.
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Read More100 Years of the Mellott Company
One Of The Aggregates Industry’s Best Companies Has Released A Commemorative Book. By Mark S. Kuhar
Read MoreKenzen Addresses Worker Privacy in Safety Data Collection
As companies around the world rapidly adopt wearable industrial devices to improve worker safety and business productivity, the protection of personal information being collected is an ongoing concern. Protective equipment innovator Kenzen recently launched a physiological monitoring system to keep workers safe from heat, overexertion and illness, and debuted a new privacy policy for its system.
Read MoreNew Home Sales Pause Following Strong Summer Surge
Sales of newly built, single-family homes in September fell 3.5% to 959,000 from a downwardly revised August number, according to newly released data by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Census Bureau. Despite the monthly decline, the September rate is 32.1% higher than the September 2019 pace, and on a year-to-date basis, new home sales…
Read MoreConstruction Spending Ticks Up; Highways Dealt a Setback
The U.S. Census Bureau announced that construction spending during September 2020 was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1,414.0 billion, 0.3% (±1.0%) above the revised August estimate of $1,410.4 billion. The September figure is 1.5% (±1.3%) above the September 2019 estimate of $1,393.3 billion.
Read MoreConstruction Starts Rebound in October
Gains Dominated All Major Sectors Following Large September Declines; Highways Surge Higher. By Mark S. Kuhar
Read MoreCalCIMA, Coalition File Suit on Joshua Tree Listing Process
The California Construction and Industrial Materials Association (CalCIMA), as part of a coalition, filed a lawsuit to challenge the process used by the California Fish and Game Commission to consider the western Joshua tree as a potentially threatened species.
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