Following President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, where he urged Congress to pass a $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill, the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) reported 10 infrastructure predictions for 2018.
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Chaney Enterprises Forms New Building Supplies Division
Chaney Enterprises announced the opening of BuilderUp, a new building supplies and services division formed by the merger of Dunkirk Supply and The Concrete Store.
Read MoreGranite Earns ‘Great Place to Work’ Designation
Granite announced that it has been certified as a great workplace by the independent analysts at Great Place to Work. Granite earned this credential based on extensive ratings provided by its employees in anonymous surveys.
Read MoreTrump Infrastructure Plan Outline Leaked
January 24, 2018 – Details of President Trump’s plan to revive America’s aging infrastructure system have been leaked to news site Axios. According to the leaked outline, the federal government is only putting up a fraction of the funds that will be used to build and fix projects including highways, bridges and airports. Half of the appropriations will go toward an “infrastructure…
Read MoreJohnson, Hill Make Case for Infrastructure Investment
Michael W. Johnson, National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association (NSSGA) president and CEO, spoke at a press conference during the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s “America’s Infrastructure: Time to Modernize” event.
Read MoreGina Olivo Joins Curry Supply
Curry Supply Co. announced that Gina Olivo has joined the organization as strategic account manager. Olivo comes to the company with more than six years of experience in the rental and construction industry from a global company specializing in equipment fleet tracking and recovery systems. Her previous positions included strategic account manager, commercial technology specialist and commercial account manager. “I’m…
Read MoreEconomic Panel Predicts Housing Will Continue to Gain Ground
The newly enacted tax law will create a more favorable tax climate for the business community, which should spur job and economic growth and keep single-family housing production on a gradual upward trajectory in 2018, according to economists speaking at the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) International Builders’ Show in Orlando.
Read MoreFisher Sand & Gravel Proposes Building Safe, Long-Lasting Border Wall
Fisher Sand & Gravel Co. (DBA Fisher Industries) said a durable border protection system along the American-Mexican border of the United States can be built at an affordable cost, within a briefer timeframe and provide better protection.
Read MoreDodge Momentum Index Ends 2017 on High Note
The Dodge Momentum Index grew 3.6 percent in December to 153.9 (2000=100) from the revised November reading of 148.6. The Momentum Index is a monthly measure of the first (or initial) report for nonresidential building projects in planning, which have been shown to lead construction spending for nonresidential buildings by a full year.
Read MoreJCB Expands Into South Central Canada
Westcon JCB, headquartered in Regina, Saskatchewan, is the newest addition to JCB’s growing North American dealer network. The new dealer will sell, rent and service JCB equipment from branches in Regina and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and Winnipeg, Manitoba. “Westcon is continually looking for new product lines, and we are pleased to now represent JCB construction products in Saskatchewan and Manitoba,” said…
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