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New Survey Shows How Nation’s Failure To Invest In Construction Education & Training Programs Makes It Hard For Firms To Build
August 26, 2024
  ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ & Arcoro Workforce Survey 94 Percent of Construction Firms Report Having a Hard Time Finding Workers to Hire, Undermining Efforts to Build Infrastructure & Other Projects As Industry Calls for Better Federal Workforce Policies The nation’s failure to invest in construction… Read More

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Congress Concerned About Commercial Real Estate Market
On February 1, Congressmen Paul E. Kanjorski (D-Pa.) and Ken Calvert (R-Calif.), along with 77 other bipartisan House members, sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernake suggesting they take further steps to ensure the health of the commercial real… Read More
March 3, 2010
National Construction Career Days Newsletter
The winter edition of the National Construction Career Days Center Newsletter is now available and contains information on recently held events in New Hampshire, Michigan and North Carolina. The newsletter, which is in a downloadable PDF, also contains tips and best practices from recent events as… Read More
March 2, 2010
Construction spending falls; federal highway funds lapse; ABI sinks; credit stays tight
Construction spending fell in January to $884 billion at a seasonally adjusted annual rate, down 0.6% from December, down 9.3% from January 2009 and the lowest rate since June 2003, the Census Bureau reported today. November and December totals were revised down by 1.4% each, and the 2009 total, $… Read More
March 1, 2010
Congress Shuts Down Highway Program
Congress adjourned for the week without enacting legislation to extend highway and transit program spending authority beyond the February 28, 2010 deadline. As a result, states will not be reimbursed for payments for ongoing contracts starting on Monday and FHWA employees will be furloughed on… Read More
March 1, 2010
Construction Spending Falls to Lowest Level in Seven Years
Construction spending in January fell by $5.5 billion to $884 billion, its lowest level since June 2003, according to ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½'s analysis of new federal figures. Declining investments in private-sector non-residential construction and public construction at all levels of government drove the decline,… Read More
March 1, 2010
EPA May Expand Coverage of Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is currently considering whether or not to expand and strengthen requirements of the 2008 Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting (RRP) rule to cover renovations of both the exteriors and the interiors of all public and commercial buildings.  EPA's… Read More
March 1, 2010
Construction Spending - January
CONSTRUCTION SPENDING FALLS TO LOWEST LEVEL IN SEVEN YEARS, DRIVEN BY NONRESIDENTIAL AND PUBLIC CONSTRUCTION DECLINES Federal Construction Investments are Lone Bright Spot in Latest Spending Report, Yet Good News is Offset By 'Disruptive' Expiration of Federal Transportation Program Construction… Read More
March 1, 2010
ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ Economist Urges Owners to Take Advantage of Low Prices
Public agencies have been reporting for more than a year that they are paying less for school buildings and other facilities than they had been. But few governments seem to have stepped up their construction programs to take advantage of the price breaks. Montgomery County, Maryland, just outside… Read More
March 1, 2010
ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ Sums Up Why Tighter Federal Air Standards May Mean Construction Bans
Over the last few years, EPA has consistently tightened its national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for particulate matter (PM), ozone and nitrogen dioxide (see related stories in the January issue of the Environmental Observer).  ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ has closely tracked and weighed in on these rulemaking… Read More
February 26, 2010
2009 Collective Bargaining Yields Lowest Increases in 13 Years
Collective bargaining negotiations completed during 2009 in the nonresidential construction industry resulted in the lowest average first-year increase in wages and fringe benefits since 1996, according to the year-end settlements report issued by the Construction Labor Research Council (CLRC). … Read More
February 26, 2010

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