Demand for Big Iron Starting To Show Signs of Slowing Down - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
For the first time in four years, the supply of new construction equipment is catching up with demand. While the softening housing market has put a damper on new machinery sales, some heavy machines will r
Publication Date: 20 November , 2006
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Everything's Strong Except Housing - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The Portland Cement Association, Skokie, Ill., is predicting that total construction, after adjusting for inflation, will decline 2% next year, but all the decline will come from a weaker housing market. &
Publication Date: 20 November , 2006
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FMI's Forecast Leads the Bulls - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Leading the optimists in this year’s group of forecasters is FMI Corp. The Denver-based industry management consultant predicts that total construction will increase 2.2% in 2007 to $1.18 trillion, f
Publication Date: 20 November , 2006
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From Storm Debris Solutions May Rise- McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The hurricane-shattered Gulf Coast is a petri dish forconstruction’s national work force crisis. The issues are not new, but theirconcentration is unprecedented. Ever since Katrina and Rita cut throu
Publication Date: 20 November , 2006
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Growth Pulse Weakens but the Patient Is Still Healthy - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The great thing about a forecasts is that if you stick to your guns long enough, they come true. And that is what is happening. After years of defying economic predictions of its demise, the housing market
Publication Date: 20 November , 2006
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Work Force Drain to Gulf Coast Has Consequences Elsewhere- McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
You hear grumbling about workforce issues everywhere in the Gulf region these days, but the effects are certainly not limited there, industry insiders say. "A lot of the labor either got out
Publication Date: 20 November , 2006
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2012 London Olympics Procurement Is One For the Record Book - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Six years to go before the Summer Olympics in London, and the approach used this August to pick a management team for more than $4.5 billion of its planned construction is already record-setting. That sele
Publication Date: 13 November , 2006
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Contractor Terminations, The Rules Should Be Clear - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The use of alternative project delivery methods is on the rise, as owners increasingly turn to them to help mitigate construction cost increases, risks and ever-changing construction schedules. Yet, the fa
Publication Date: 13 November , 2006
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Innovative Financial Plan Pushes Greenville Schools Ahead - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The Greenville, S.C., school board struggled for 10 years to find a means to pay for a much-needed construction program that would build or expand 70 different school buildings. Realizing its effort was go
Publication Date: 13 November , 2006
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New Firm Aims To Help Contractors Deliver On Time - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
In a market where owners increasingly invest in fast-tracked projects of unprecedented scope and complexity, many contractors’ project-scheduling resources are being pushed to the limit. But for one
Publication Date: 13 November , 2006
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Progressive Project Delivery - Speed And Quality Drive Changes - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
With this issue of Progressive Project Delivery, ENR continues to bring you news and analysis of global project delivery innovations and trends. In today’s dynamic global market, virtually all delive
Publication Date: 13 November , 2006
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Progressive Project Delivery Capturing Water Business - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
To test how far the water and wastewater market has evolved in accepting different project delivery methods, my firm conducted a comprehensive survey of water and wastewater utility executives across the c
Publication Date: 13 November , 2006
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Speedy and Efficient 'Design-Build Lite' Is Easing Owner Worries - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
One large midwestern building contractor has found that working with a modified delivery system it calls “design-build lite” is professionally challenging but economically beneficial to all par
Publication Date: 13 November , 2006
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The Top 600 Specialty Contractors - Can Firms Handle the Boom? - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The construction market in the U.S. has been on the upswing for two years, and there are few signs of the market slowing any time soon. For specialty contractors, this means making the most with the resour
Publication Date: 16 October , 2006
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3Q Cost Report - Housing Slowdown Undercuts Inflation - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Contractors who have been battling a resurgence in inflation, starting with a doubling of steel prices during the spring of 2004 through the doubling of copper prices last quarter, finally got a break. Dur
Publication Date: 25 September, 2006
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3Q Cost Report - U.S. and Canada Settle Trade Dispute - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The U.S. and Canada finally signed a deal on Sept. 12 that would end a dispute over Canadian exports of softwood lumber that has dragged on for over two decades. The deal, which has been in the works since
Publication Date: 25 September, 2006
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3Q Cost Report - Worker Gaps in South Push up Costs- McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Keeping construction projects staffed in fast-growing southeastern states has never been easy. But that is proving tough now, and could be a lot tougher later, with still unmet building needs from recent h
Publication Date: 25 September, 2006
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3Q Cost Report -Workers' Comp Steadies - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Although medical and indem-nity costs continue to soar in many regions across the U.S., recently enacted workers’ compensation reform laws in a number of states and better industry safety and workpla
Publication Date: 25 September, 2006
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3Q Cost Report- Third Year of Price Hikes Fueled By Hurricane-Related Disruptions- McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Robust demand and high energy costs have seen polyvinyl chloride prices rise for three consecutive years, culminating in a 20% increase between August 2005 and 2006, reports the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statis
Publication Date: 25 September, 2006
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Chicago Union's Recruiting Strategy Spurs Engineers' Lawsuit - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Union leaders in Chicago have a saying: “Whatever happens in Washington stays in Washington.” With aggressive organizing and tight cooperation among local trades, union workers are gaining powe
Publication Date: 04 September, 2006
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Iron Workers President Joe Hunt: Unwilling to Face the Status Quo - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
When Joe Hunt, president of the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental & Reinforcing Iron Workers, addressed union delegates at its 41st convention in Washington, D.C., Aug. 14, he
Publication Date: 04 September, 2006
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Las Vegas Unions On a Win Streak - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The Las Vegas building boom has stretched the work force paper-thin. Construction, which accounted for 113,500 jobs in July, now is Nevada’s fastest-growing and second-largest employer behind gaming.
Publication Date: 04 September, 2006
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New York City Adapts to Labor Challenge- McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
New York City’s construction unions and contractors for years have negotiated labor deals at arm’s length, sometimes punctuated by strikes like the early July walkout by two operating engineers
Publication Date: 04 September, 2006
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Union Shifts and Market Shakeups Create Complex Trade Relations - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The intersection of 16th and I Streets in Washington, D.C., couldn’t be a better icon of the complex and ironic state of construction labor relations these days. On one side of the street, the gold s
Publication Date: 04 September, 2006
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U.S. Roads Are Being Built and Run with Other People's Money - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
In the not-so-distant future, Californians on State Route 125 will be contributing to Australian pension funds every time they pay a toll. And the historic ties between Texas and Spain will take on a new,
Publication Date: 28 August , 2006
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A Long Effort To Clean Up Jobsites May Start To Pay Off - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Jane Williams is a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based safety consultant who has been trying to clean up U.S. construction sites for more than a decade. She is seeking changes in standards that would lead to rev
Publication Date: 07 August , 2006
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Higher Quality of Life Means Ending Barnyard Conditions - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Kelly Patton works out of laborers' Local 872 in Las Vegas, where she is currently a flagger on the big MGM Grand project, and she's giving the prime contractor on the job, Marnell Corrao Associates, high
Publication Date: 07 August , 2006
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Manson Learns Injury Prevention Starts With Heart - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
About two years ago, Randy Maddox, a project manager for Manson Construction Co., had joined 50 co-workers for a safety meeting at its Seattle headquarters when he heard a line in a video being shown that
Publication Date: 07 August , 2006
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Operator Creature Comforts Are Largely A Matter of Preference - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
When Charles “Dub” Norris went to work as a heavy equipment operator in the early 1960s, he sat for hours each day muscling hoist levers and clutches in the open air through rain, snow, heat an
Publication Date: 07 August , 2006
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Remote Sites Inspire Contractors To Keep Workers Happy - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Worker shortages are everywhere in construction, and nowhere is this more acute than at remote project locations. To cope, employers are upping jobsite accoutrements these days to keep employees happy and
Publication Date: 07 August , 2006
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2006 Second Quarterly Cost Report - Contractor Personnel Shortages Cause Huge Sellers' Market for Top People - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Contractors have more work than they have people to do the work. This has led to a desperate struggle by contractors to find and retain qualified managers, ratcheting up the pressure on salaries to unprece
Publication Date: 26 June , 2006
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2006 Second Quarterly Cost Report - Contractors Are Scrambling in a Busy Market with Fabrication Bottlenecks - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Rapid escalation of materials prices is causing contractors some headaches but the availability and delivery of fabricated materials is a migraine. “The ability to deliver is of greater importance th
Publication Date: 26 June , 2006
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2006 Second Quarterly Cost Report - Inflation Maintains Strong Momentum - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
High energy and material commodity prices continue to fuel construction industry inflation, which broke into the double-digit realm after the surge in steel prices during 2004 and has remained near those l
Publication Date: 26 June , 2006
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2006 Second Quarterly Cost Report - Price Escalation Is Stuck in High Gear - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Rising crude oil costs and refinery improvements are giving asphalt prices a steady push upward. In May, asphalt costs were 48% higher than a year ago, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Pr
Publication Date: 26 June , 2006
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2006 Second Quarterly Cost Report - Speculation Sparks Huge Price Surge Hitting Electrical and Mechanical Costs - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Earlier this month a historic warehouse in Brooklyn, New York, burned to the ground. The cause: a fire started by a vagrant stripping copper wire to sell as scrap. This is just one of several stories recen
Publication Date: 26 June , 2006
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2006 Second Quarterly Cost Report - Will High Paving Costs Put Recycled Roads Back in the Fast Lane? - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Highway contractors reuse millions of tons of asphalt pavement every year. Now, with the price of liquid asphalt up more than 40% on average over the past 12 months, they are looking to recycle more. Stand
Publication Date: 26 June , 2006
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Jones Lang LaSalle Sets Course As Empire Builder to the World - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Even with a balance sheet that screams success, a share value that hit an all-time high in April, and rosy predictions of a bright future, Colin Dyer, president and CEO of Chicago-based global real estate
Publication Date: 12 June , 2006
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The Top 100 CM-at-Risk Firms - More Public Agencies Look to CM To Protect Against Risk in Hot Market - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The construction process in the past couple years has been fraught with risk for owners and contractors. Materials and labor price escalation has sent shock waves through the industry. This has led owners
Publication Date: 12 June , 2006
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The Top 100 CM-for-Fee Firms - Markets Are Growing for Agency CM - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The U.S. construction boom has paid dividends for almost all segments of the construction industry and firms providing construction management services on a fee-only basis are no exception. As owners scram
Publication Date: 12 June , 2006
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The Top 100 Design-Build Firms - Design-Build Continues to Grow Despite Wariness and Price Concerns - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
There was a time when advocates were proclaiming that design-build would become the predominant project delivery method for most major projects in the U.S. That has not come to pass. But design-build has m
Publication Date: 12 June , 2006
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The Top 100 Overview - Volatility Leads to New Thinking - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
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Publication Date: 12 June , 2006
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The 2006 Top 400 Contractors - It Is the Best of Times For Well-Managed Firms - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
For many, if not most, large general contractors, this is a time like few have ever seen. The economy is strong, the markets vibrant, and there is more than enough work to go around in most major markets a
Publication Date: 22 May , 2006
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Replacing Workers Who Walk Now Is a Bigger Drain on the Bottom Line - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Hold on to your employees for dear life. Burgeoning markets and corporate growth across the construction industry are turning a once-loyal work force into an endangered species. As job opportunities and sa
Publication Date: 08 May , 2006
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McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR - The 2006 Top 500 Design Firms - Designer Ponder the Perils of Prosperity
The U.S. economy is strong and so is the construction market. No one knows this more than designers who are at the leading edge of the boom. But just as the recent recession brought new issues and concerns
Publication Date: 24 April , 2006
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Progressive Project Delivery - Best Value - University's System Boosts Value Added - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Publication Date: 03 April , 2006
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Progressive Project Delivery - Class Struggle - Tribal Schools Go Modern - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Even with a 1990s-era building moratorium still in effect, BIA, which is part of the Dept. of Interior, received a helping hand in its mission from the Clinton and Bush administrations and the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. BIA’s
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Publication Date: 03 April , 2006
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Progressive Project Delivery - Global- Trouble Down Under - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Publication Date: 03 April , 2006
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Progressive Project Delivery - Multitask - Firm is Jack-of-All-Trades - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Building the structures you design is not something most design firms choose to do. But for CVM Design-Build, Wayne, Pa., the progression of work responsibilities just seemed to happen naturally.
Publication Date: 03 April , 2006
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Progressive Project Delivery - Taking Off - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Pity today’s U.S. airport construction manager. He or she must deliver high-tech, glitzy, and complex facilities to meet growth demand, new regulations and stiffer competition for passengers and car
Publication Date: 03 April , 2006
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New Naval Training Building Transforms Recruits Into Sailors - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Quietly rising under the radar and chaff of today’s starchitects and signature structures is a revolutionary ship-shaped building within a building that marks the beginning of a new genre of naval mi
Publication Date: 27 March , 2006
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First Quarterly Cost Report 2006 - Big Home Centers' Influence Sways The Broader Materials Market - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Even though “big box” stores Home Depot and Lowe’s primarily are the domain of the non-professional do-it-yourself construction consumers, the retailers’ influence on the constructi
Publication Date: 20 March , 2006
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First Quarterly Cost Report 2006 - Factors That Drive ENR's Cost Indexes - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The explosion in material prices in 2004 continued unabated through 2005 with double-digit price increases for gypsum wallboard, ductile iron and copper pipe. Petroleum-based products, such as PVC pipe and
Publication Date: 20 March , 2006
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First Quarterly Cost Report 2006 - Higher Energy Costs and Strong Demand Keep Construction Inflation Going - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Two years of relentless materials price escalation has pushed construction costs into new territory. Contractors and owners are dealing with the reality of a permanently higher cost structure, especially f
Publication Date: 20 March , 2006
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First Quarterly Cost Report 2006 - Prices Jump 40% over a Year Ago - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Price volatility in the copper market is forcing electrical and plumbing contractors to rethink their bidding procedures for construction projects. “I think contractors are just feeling the pressure.
Publication Date: 20 March , 2006
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First Quarterly Cost Report 2006 - Union Wage Settlements Average 3.9% - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Despite record levels of employment, wage settlements for union construction workers in 2005 continued close to the pace set during the previous two years. In March, ENR’s 20-city average skilled lab
Publication Date: 20 March , 2006
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First Quarterly Cost Report 2006 -Inflation Takes Two Different Roads - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Materials price escalation switched gears in 2005 as petroleum-based products took the lead from steel prices, which fueled inflation in 2004. The latest round of double-digit price increases for copper, p
Publication Date: 20 March , 2006
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"White Goods" Operation Includes Freon Recovery and Fridge Gutting - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Nestled in the valley of “Mount Katrina,” roughly 20 mucky acres on the eastern end of the recently reopened, massive Old Gentilly Landfill in eastern New Orleans, lies the “white goods”
Publication Date: 20 February , 2006
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Battle of New Orleans Won By White House - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Most of New Orleans remains a ghastly ruin six months after the greatest disaster to hit a U.S. city. And if you are an elected official in Louisiana, the Bush administration’s rejection of the state
Publication Date: 20 February , 2006
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Mission Incredible: Clean Up, Then Tear Down New Orleans - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Six months after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers launched its debris removal mission in the Gulf Coast, much of the area still looks like a battlefield. Although the Corps says the work is on schedule, co
Publication Date: 20 February , 2006
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Nevada Power Co. Struggles To Recover After Hard Blows - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Nevada Power Co. was broadsided by California’s energy crisis in 2000-01. Tightened credit halted construction by the private-power developers that it was counting on for electricity supplies. And it
Publication Date: 20 February , 2006
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