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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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Top Notch Speakers to Address Highway and Utility Contractors Issues Meeting
ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½'s Highway and Utility Contractors Issues Meeting scheduled for November 12-14, 2009, at the PGA National Resort in Palm Gardens, Fla., will provide the latest cutting edge information for contractors involved in the highway, bridge, transit, railroad and utility markets. Among the outstanding… Read More
October 5, 2009
Festival of the Building Arts at the National Building Museum
October 10, Washington, D.C. ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ will present Festival of the Building Arts at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., on October 10, 10am-4:30pm.  The event is designed for children ages 5-13 and includes fun construction-related activities, including dry wall finishing, woodworking and… Read More
October 5, 2009
Effective Safety Training for Highway Workers
Free Webinar - September 30th from 1-2pm ET Developed by ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ and Zurich Services Corp, the Highway Worker Safety Program focuses on the leading causes of fatality and injury for employees managing and performing work on highways in America. In this webinar, learn how to effectively navigate and… Read More
October 5, 2009
Plan to Attend the Construction Leadership Council Fall Working Weekend
Registration is open for the 2009 Construction Leadership Council Working Weekend, to be held Nov. 19-21, 2009, in Nashville, Tenn. This event is co-sponsored by the ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ of America Construction Leadership Council, ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ of Tennessee and the ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ of East Tennessee. The two-day event will include the… Read More
October 5, 2009
2010 Technology Showcase Call for Presentations
ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ and the Electronic Information Systems Committee (EIS) would like to invite general contractors and specialty contractors to present at the 2010 ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ Convention in Orlando, Fla. Share your reasons for implementing SharePoint, your implementation plan, pitfalls, successes and how it has or hasn't… Read More
October 5, 2009
Economy Shows More Signs of Life But Construction Lags
The rate of decline in overall employment is gradually slowing. First-time unemployment claims dropped in mid-September, suggesting that September employment losses will shrink again, as they did in August. However, construction-particularly nonresidential construction-continues to hemorrhage jobs… Read More
October 5, 2009
Construction job losses remain heavy, widespread; homebuilding rises, nonres sinks
Seasonally adjusted nonfarm payroll job losses in September totaled 263,000, barely half the average of the last 12 months, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported on Friday. (Seasonal adjustment takes into account normal monthly variations in weather and numbers of work days.) But… Read More
October 2, 2009
Beige Book Shows Brighter Economy Except for Nonresidential Construction
A September 9 report from the latest Beige Book, a summary of informal soundings of business conditions, "indicate that economic activity continued to stabilize in July and August."  The districts are referred to by the name of their headquarters city. "Relative to the last report, Dallas indicated… Read More
October 2, 2009
Little Bailout from Washington Leaves Commercial Market Hurting
Forbes reports that "financiers are sweating a coming wave of mortgage defaults tied to office and apartment buildings. Unfortunately for them, too big to fail doesn't apply to the $6.5 trillion U.S. commercial real estate market."  Read the full story here.
October 2, 2009
Construction Employment - September
CONSTRUCTION UNEMPLOYMENT RISES TO 17.1 PERCENT AS ANOTHER 64,000 CONSTRUCTION WORKERS LAID OFF IN SEPTEMBER One out of Every Five Construction Workers Lost Job since December 2007, Nonresidential Construction Accounted for 80 Percent of Construction Jobs Lost Last Month The national unemployment… Read More
October 2, 2009

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