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After we reported last week that the Texas Senate seems to be abandoning legislation that would block local governments from requiring private employers to provide paid...
Reshaping the Construction Industry
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Texas again added the most construction jobs (51,400 jobs, 6.9%), followed by California (34,400, 4.0%), Florida (25,300, 4.6%), Arizona (14,400, 8.9%) and Nevada (12,000, 13%). Nevada again added the highest percentage of construction jobs, followed by New Mexico (11%, 5,300), Arizona, New Hampshire (8.1%, 2,200) and Arkansas (7.6%, 3,800).
November 25, 2019
Beard recently hosted a roundtable of representatives from the various sectors participating in UpSkill Houston – industry, K-12, higher education, and community development.
November 22, 2019
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is asking Texas State Senators to study a variety of issues ahead of the next legislative session. It is common practice for the Senate’s presiding officer to issue what are called “interim charges” to committees. These “charges” are basically a list of subjects that lawmakers may wish to act on in the next legislative session.
November 21, 2019
A recent survey by Dodge Data & Analytics and Sevan Multi-site Solutions of owners who have multi-site construction and contractors who do that work reveals some vastly different positions on “critical success factors” in the construction process. The survey findings were reported in a Dodge Smartmarket Insight titled Challenges and Opportunities in Multi-Site Construction.
November 20, 2019
Compared to October 2018, the PPI for new nonresidential building construction—a measure of the price that contractors say they would charge to build a fixed set of buildings—rose 4.0%. Increases ranged from 2.9% year-over-year (y/y) for new office buildings to 3.2% for healthcare buildings, 4.6% for industrial and school buildings, and 5.8% for warehouses.
November 19, 2019
While vendors were showcasing new and existing products, Meredith was expertly crafting a work of art from a large slab of cedarwood.
November 18, 2019
Chamberlin Roofing & Waterproofing completed a successful renovation of the Norman, Oklahoma stadium this year, finding a permanent solution to moisture intrusion at expansion joints throughout the stadium, while allowing University of Oklahoma activities in the stadium to continue as scheduled.
November 15, 2019
Three things keep nagging at me. An AGC study determined that new construction and infrastructure equal to the amount that exists today will be built between today and 2030 in the US. The second is that 40% of the construction materials for a building under our current approach is wasted. The third thing is that as much as 25% of all construction today has to be re-done to make it right. The combination of those three things alone seems to me to make it imperative that we find better ways for architects and contractors to work together and we need to do it now.
November 14, 2019
Tis the season for 2020 forecasts. The chief economists for AGC, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and ConstructConnect discussed the current state of design and construction and the outlook for 2020 in a webinar on Wednesday.
November 13, 2019
