Hoffa: Repair Infrastructure Over New Building
Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa called on Congress to stress road and bridge repair and public transit expansion in the next federal highway bill...
Low-Income Housing Can Fuel Economic Gains
A new study conducted in New York and commissioned by Local Initiatives Support Corp. and Enterprise Community Partners shows affordable-housing development is an economic stimulus...
Plan to Mute Commercial Real Estate Drop
A tax incentive for business owners would avoid the looming commercial real estate loan crisis while creating 1.3 million jobs...
MSHA to Revamp Patter of Violation Program
On April 13, following the explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine that killed 29 men, Rep. George Miller, chairman of the committee on education and labor, asked the Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General to review the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s Pattern of Violation Program...
Lafarge Sells La. Sand and Gravel Site
VantaCore Partners acquired Lafarge North America’s Clemons Aggregates site in Denham Springs, La....
Army Corps Suspends NWP 21 in Appalachian Region
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has suspended the use of Nationwide Permit 21 (NWP 21) in the Appalachian region of six states. NWP 21 is used to authorize discharges of dredged or fill material into waters of the United States for surface coal mining activities...
Fred Weber Receives Safety Awards
Missouri’s Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Division of Labor Standards, Mine and Cave Safety and Health Section and the Southeast Missouri Mine Safety Association presented Fred Weber, Inc., with six safety awards...
Survey: Multifamily Housing Construction Improves
The multifamily housing market showed signs of moving back toward stability in the first quarter of 2010, according to the latest National Association of Homebuilder’s Multifamily Market Index...
Lakes Limestone Trade Up 27% in May
The Lake Carriers' Association reports that limestone shipments on the Great Lakes totaled 3.6 million net tons in May, an increase of 47.6% compared with April, and an increase of 27.3% compared to a year ago...
Health Care Tax Credits for Small Businesses
Starting in April, millions of small businesses began to receive postcards from the Internal Revenue Service about the new small business health care tax credit...
Report Shows Flaws in Sustainability Efforts
Though many companies lack the structural framework to enable proper director oversight of sustainability programs, they rarely consult outside expertise, according to a report released by The Conference Board...
ARRA Money to Build Fire Stations
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said that more than $11.9 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds will be used for fire station construction grants...
Builder Confidence Declines in June
Snapping a string of two consecutive monthly gains, builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes fell back to February levels, before the beginning of the home buyer tax credit-related surge...
ARTBA Wants Rail, Highway Funding Separated
The American Road & Transportation Builders Association is calling for a strategic rail plan being prepared by the U.S. Department of Transportation should propose dedicated financing mechanisms outside of the highway trust fund...
ARTBA's Ruane Warns Bridge Group of Funding Peril
If Congress and the president do not act later this year or in early 2011 on passage of a new, multi-year highway and transit authorization bill, hundreds of thousands of U.S. jobs could be lost and states could face at a 50% cut in federal funding, American Road & Transportation Builders Association President and CEO Pete Ruane warned industry executives gathered in Pittsburgh for the International Bridge Conference...
Company to Sell Concrete Homes in Gulf Coast Area
The rebuilding efforts along the Gulf Coast since Hurricane Katrina have been slowed by high insurance rates and new wind load regulations for coastal buildings...
ConExpo Russia Opens
ConExpo Russia ran from June 1 - 5 at the Crocus International Exhibition Center in Moscow...
Teichert Aggregates Installs Wind Turbine
Teichert Aggregates installed a 1.5 megawatt wind turbine generator to deliver electricity on site at its sand and gravel operation in western San Joaquin County, located just south of Tracy, California...
Holcim Opens Ste. Genevieve Cement Plant
Holcim hosted the inaugural celebration of its newest plant located in Ste. Genevieve County, Mo., last week...
Icelandic Volcanic Ash Mitigates Alkali Aggregate Reactions in Concrete
The Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland is most famous for paralyzing international air traffic...
Mid-America Businesses to Grow
The May Business Conditions Index for the Mid-America region advanced for a sixth straight month, pointing to a growing economy in the months ahead, according to the May Business Conditions survey of supply managers in the nine-state region...
Granite CFO Resigns
Granite Construction Senior Vice President and CFO LeAnne M. Stewart is leaving the company to pursue other opportunities...
Staker Parson Among Utah’s Best
The Utah Best of State Organization recently selected Staker Parson Companies as the 2010 Best of State Medal Winner in the Manufacturing-Mineral Mining/Stone Quarrying category...
Bolivian Dignitary Tours Knife River Operations
Knife River's Central Minnesota division hosted Bolivian Governor-elect Santos Tito of the Oruro Province, at its Isanti ready-mix plant in mid May...
Tax Credits Boost April New-Home Sales
Sales of newly built, single-family homes surged 14.8% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 504,000 units in April as consumers rushed to beat the deadline for expiring home buyer tax credits, according to data released by the U.S. Commerce Department...
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