Slaking Vegas' Thirst Is Getting Harder - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
With people crowding into the Las Vegas area amid persistent drought, local officials are being forced to tap new water options. The Southern Nevada Water Authority needs an estimated 400,000 acre-ft more
Publication Date: 20 February , 2006
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Sustained, 20-Year Boom Leaves Vegas Showing The Strain - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Construction prices are rising along with soaring real-estate prices, driving the Manhattanization of the city. But in the tight market, local bidders are choosing their targets while the high-rise growth is attracting outsiders with experience
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Publication Date: 20 February , 2006
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Boh Bros. Has Given New Orleans A Reason To Hope - McGraw-Hill Construction
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Robert S. Boh wasn’t exactly a wallflower before Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, but since then has become something of a local hero and his family business, Boh Bros. Construction Co., has emerge
Publication Date: 13 February , 2006
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'Concreter' Delays Post-Katrina Push - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The Portland Cement Association does not want to be perceived as opportunistic after any disaster. Take Hurricane Katrina. The concrete booster is purposely waiting to begin its advocacy of concrete system
Publication Date: 06 February , 2006
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Engineers Give High Marks to Steel Institute's Service - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Structural steel boosters have been on the defensive since Sept. 11, 2001, when terrorists destroyed the steel-framed, 110-story towers of Manhattan's World Trade Center. Much effort has gone into propping
Publication Date: 06 February , 2006
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Negative Tactics of Concrete Promoter Infuriate Steel - McGraw-Hill Construction
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Of the many horror stories born in New York City on 9/11, the one that belongs to Herbert Margrill serves as the genesis of an ongoing storm between boosters of structural concrete and structural steel. Al
Publication Date: 06 February , 2006
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An Independent Merchants Reorganize, Power Market Sees Sparks Fly - McGraw-Hill
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The last of the big independent energy producers, offspring of the federal government's attempt to push the power market into a competitive arena, was forced into bankruptcy last month. Market deregulation
Publication Date: 30 January , 2006
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Fourth Quarterly Cost Report 2005 - Costs Remain High As Escalation Peaks - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Publication Date: 19 December , 2005
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Forecast 2006 - A Rebound in Nonresidential Building Markets Keeps Growth Going - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
History buffs reviewing this year’s batch of industry forecasts for 2006 may experience Yogi Berra’s feeling of "deja vu all over again." The scenario of strong and steady public works
Publication Date: 21 November , 2005
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Forecast 2006 - Commerce Predicts Housing Will Hold On - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The U.S. Dept. of Commerce predicts that the momentum of this year’s markets will carry over into 2006, leading to another 6% increase in the total value of construction put-in-place. This will follow
Publication Date: 21 November , 2005
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Forecast 2006 - FMI's Forecast Leads the Bulls - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
One of the most optimistic forecasts for next year comes from FMI Corp. The Denver-based industry management consultant predicts that the dollar value of total construction put-in-place will increase 6.8%
Publication Date: 21 November , 2005
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Forecast 2006 - Markets Will Retrench in 2006 - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The main drag on activity is coming from the residential market. Since 2000 the value of permits filed for residential structures have grown an astonishing 81%. Both single-family and multifamily permits have benefited from low mortgage rates an
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Publication Date: 21 November , 2005
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Forecast 2006 - NAHB Predicts That Higher Interest Rates Will Cool Off Housing - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Higher interest rates and energy costs will combine in 2006 to knock residential construction from this year’s record peak of 2.05 million starts, according to the National Association of Home Builder
Publication Date: 21 November , 2005
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Forecast 2006 - PCA Says Inflation Will Be a Problem - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
"The hurricanes this year helped to ratchet up inflation and that is going to stick around," says Ed Sullivan, PCA’s chief economist. "Economic conditions are just not as favorable as they were before. There is the potential
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Publication Date: 21 November , 2005
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Forecast 2006 - Shortage of Big Machinery Continues Amid Explosive Buying Spree - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Construction companies and rental firms bought tons of iron this year, giving vendors little chance to come up for air. "The good news is that I’m sold out," says one manufacturing executive
Publication Date: 21 November , 2005
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Did Ex-CEO Accused of Fraud Have No Fear of Being Caught? - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
On April 10, 1999, the Maryland Senate adopted a resolution offering its "sincerest congratulations" to W. David Stoffregen, the former CEO of mechanical contractor Poole and Kent Corp., which th
Publication Date: 07 November , 2005
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On the Fraud Front: One Fed Speaks Up - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
"It’s pretty clear that the construction industry generates the most business and corruption cases in the U.S. Locally based companies know each other, and if they all get along, they can make more money. It’s a pattern that occur
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Publication Date: 07 November , 2005
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Pressures and Temptations Have Industry Walking A Fine Line - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
On Oct. 27, federal prosecutors indicted former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman (D), a former state transportation director and industry executives in an alleged contract fraud and bribery scheme. On Oct. 19, a former CEO of a large Baltimore mechani
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Publication Date: 07 November , 2005
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Universities Elevate Ethics Education - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Most engineers are proficient in numbers and calculations but may be less confident in the inexact world of business ethics. Two university programs are trying to change that. The Online Ethics Center for
Publication Date: 07 November , 2005
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The Top 600 Specialty Contractors 2005 - Uncertainties Loom over Hot Market - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Most major contractors seem to believe the market will continue to be strong, fueled by the passage of federal transportation and energy funding bills and with looming hurricane recovery funding. But they remain cautious over materials prices, a
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Publication Date: 17 October , 2005
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3D Grade Control Puts Designers Right in the Operator's Seat - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
More jobsites are using global positioning systems to pinpoint survey stations and guide machinery with millimeter accuracy. But automation is putting everyone to the test. "The attention to detail needs to be a lot higher than what some fi
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Publication Date: 03 October , 2005
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Third Quarterly Cost Report 2005 - Katrina Keeps Inflation Roaring - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Hurricane Katrina is expected to give inflation in the construction industry a second wind. Prior to the storm, the industry gradually was recovering from last year’s resurgence of inflation. While it
Publication Date: 26 September, 2005
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Construction Industry Faces New Dilemma: Good Health Painful Choices - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Covering workers’ medical needs without breaking the bottom line has become almost as tough for engineers, contractors and union leaders as the construction projects they design, build and manage.
Publication Date: 05 September, 2005
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Despite a ‘Macho’ Mentality, Contractors Push Healthier Lifestyles - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The Minnesota Mechanical Contractors Association and the labor management health care coalition in Minneapolis/St. Paul are pushing cost controls by "creating smarter buyers," says Gary Thaden, association government affairs director a
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Publication Date: 05 September, 2005
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Engineers’ Rx for Taming Rising Costs: ‘Consumerism’ and Activism - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Recent studies reflect how the cost crisis is becoming a key boardroom issue for design firm managers. EFCG Inc., a New York City-based financial consultant to mostly engineering firms, says that 80 CFOs it surveyed last spring report the averag
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Publication Date: 05 September, 2005
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Unions Fight Medical Cost Hikes That Drain the Pocketbooks - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Health insurance remains one of the most important benefits for union construction workers, but as costs continue to spiral, more collective bargaining agreements must tilt money to health and welfare bene
Publication Date: 05 September, 2005
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Stagnant Percentage-of-Construction Fees Throw Designers A Curve - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Engineer and Cornell University Professor Paul G. Carr says civil engineers are getting stiffed. In the 33 years since the U.S. Justice Dept. first enforced antitrust laws against engineer and architect as
Publication Date: 01 August , 2005
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Why Architects Don't Charge Enough - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Editor's note: The following story originally was part of a series and appeared in the October, 1999 issue of Architectural Record magazine. Kubany is a former staff member and Linn is currently deputy editor.
Publication Date: 28 July , 2005
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Prosperity Fuels Expansion - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The worldwide market for construction design services has been buffeted over the past eight years by financial crises, terrorism, wars, SARS flu scares and regional recessions. Yet the market continues to
Publication Date: 25 July , 2005
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Stantec Pushes Big Plans–Carefully–For Moving To the Front Row - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
At recent investor analyst conferences to which Stantec Inc. officials have been invited–along with their competitors, publicly traded and better known U.S. engineers and contractors–CEO Tony Fra
Publication Date: 25 July , 2005
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Stantec Pushes Big Plans–Carefully–For Moving To the Front Row - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
At recent investor analyst conferences to which Stantec Inc. officials have been invited–along with their competitors, publicly traded and better known U.S. engineers and contractors–CEO Tony Fra
Publication Date: 25 July , 2005
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Trans-Alaska Pipeline Gets A Boost Of High-Octane Efficiency
But Greenlee, 53, still has one problem that eludes many fleet managers: They have trouble controlling how field operators use, and sometimes abuse, the company’s construction machines. "You can give someone all the training in the wor
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Publication Date: 18 July , 2005
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Second Quarterly Cost Report 2005 - Equipment - Demand for Crude Oil Has Fuel Prices Pouring Over the Top
Energy markets showed early warning signs of inflation last October, when the price of crude oil reached more than $51 a barrel during regular trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Global price swin
Publication Date: 27 June , 2005
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Contractor Had Duty of Care To Office Workers at Jobsite
A contractor owed a duty of care to an office worker when it excavated an area directly behind the rear door of her office, an Ohio court has ruled.
Publication Date: 20 June , 2005
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Framer's Death Not the Fault of General Contractor Or Owner
A general contractor and an owner were not responsible for the death of a subcontractor’s employee because they did not exercise control over the manner in which the sub did its work, a Utah appeals c
Publication Date: 20 June , 2005
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Owners Push a Small New Jersey Firm Up The Food Chain
Working as an owner’s representative CM–a niche that involves billing for hours worked–—has its rewards and its frustrations. For Elizabeth-based Imperial, the frustrations include competing for contracts against a formidable
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Publication Date: 13 June , 2005
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San Francisco Contract Rules Have Construction in Turmoil
San Francisco’s municipal construction market is facing hard times with shrinking bid lists and escalating prices as some of its big-dollar jobs finish late and over budget. Contractors say cash-strap
Publication Date: 13 June , 2005
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The Top 100 CM Firms 2005 - Demand for More Services Squeezes Construction and Program Managers
For ENR’s Top 100 Construction Management-for-Fee Firms and Top 40 Program Management Firms, 2004 was a big year. The two groups generated $6.76 billion in combined CM and PM fees, up 14.3% over 2003. The groups report total domestic fees o
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Publication Date: 13 June , 2005
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The Top 100 CM-at-Risk Firms 2005 - Owners Seek Front-End Guidance While Expecting Protection from Risk
This growth is evident in the revenue totals of ENR’s Top 100 CM-at-Risk Firms. In 2004, the Top 100 had combined revenue of $54.29 billion, up 6.6% over its $50.94 billion in 2003. The domestic proportion of that revenue total last year gr
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Publication Date: 13 June , 2005
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The Top 100 Design-Build Firms 2005 - Giants' Revenue Falloff Hurts Market But Approach Acceptance Is Growing
The 2004 revenue total for The ENR Top 100 fell 2.8% from the previous year, to $47.22 billion. On the domestic side, this group had an even larger 6% falloff from the previous year, garnering $30.56 billion in revenue versus the 2003 total of $
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Publication Date: 13 June , 2005
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The Top 40 Program Managers 2005 - Owners Demand Broader Services
There was a time when an owner that wished to build a project could choose from a short list of project delivery methods. There was the traditional design-bid-build. Then construction management arose as a
Publication Date: 13 June , 2005
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steel, prices, cost, inflation, building materials, American Institute of Steel Construction, cement, Portland Cement Association
The law of gravity is finally acting on steel, sending prices down 20% since Jan. 1, reports the American Institute of Steel Construction, the industry association.
Publication Date: 13 June , 2005
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In Scottsdale, Schedule Experts Plan Standards
The Project Management Institute's College of Scheduling unveiled its initiative to produce guidelines and best practices at the college's annual conference in Scottsdale, Ariz. last month. One hundred vo
Publication Date: 10 June , 2005
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Convicted Contractor Turned His Talents to CM Work
A convicted New York City contracting executive has switched project delivery methods, using a construction management contract for a luxury goods shop in Trump Tower as a way to cheat subcontractors and
Publication Date: 08 June , 2005
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More Companies Bring Jobsite Safety Up Close And Personal
In the early 1990s, an Intel Corp. construction project in Ireland received a safety flag, a top local award for an outstanding jobsite safety record. But project leader Art Stout, now the chipmaker’s
Publication Date: 06 June , 2005
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Guesswork Cut By New Method
The highly accurate method calculates for previously unaccounted-for low-frequency harmonic stress, such as earthquakes, ocean waves or a car passing over a bridge. Pingsha Dong, technical director for welded structures research at the Columbus,
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Publication Date: 30 May , 2005
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Justice Dept. Says Contracts Won’t Pass the Smell Test
Those indictments, announced May 9, involve Jacob Kiferbaum, chief executive officer of KCC Group Design+ Build, a contracting company based in Deerfield, Ill. A federal grand jury indicted Kiferbaum and two attorney-businessmen, Stuart Levine a
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Publication Date: 30 May , 2005
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DOD, Industry Weigh Base Closure Impact
There’s lots of anger and pain on and around military bases that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld proposes to close. The latest recommended shutdowns, announced May 13, could be more beneficial to de
Publication Date: 23 May , 2005
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Kiewealth: Payout Sets Stock Apart
Fluor Corp. pays its shareholders a dividend. And Jacobs Engineering Group also has outperformed the S&P 500 and publicly traded heavy construction contractors. But neither company has matched the rece
Publication Date: 23 May , 2005
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New Jersey Fixes Building Program
SCC announced earlier this month that it will implement 10 steps suggested by the state inspector general after an audit of agency procedures and criticism of possible overspending and conflict of interest. The scrutiny comes just months before
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Publication Date: 23 May , 2005
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Midwest Ethical Challenges: Kickback, Bid-Rigging Cases Abound
Contractors in the states of Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana have been swept up on bid-rigging and kickback charges brought by federal prosecutors this year and last. Guilty pleas have already been made i
Publication Date: 20 May , 2005
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Growth Marks a Return to Prosperity
The complete 2005 Top 400 Contractors list with revenue and market data is free to ENR subscribers but can a
Publication Date: 16 May , 2005
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Tribal ProjectsBringing Wins and Losses
The widespread popularity of gambling at Native American venues has thrust tribes into the spotlight, bringing them political clout and capital for new construction, not to mention private industry partne
Publication Date: 16 May , 2005
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Appeal to be Heard Over Portland's 'Big Pipe' Contractor Switch
The city of Portland, Ore. started contract negotiations with the joint venture team of Kiewit Construction Company (Omaha) and German-based Bilfinger Berger for the second phase of a $1.4-billion program
Publication Date: 10 May , 2005
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Kiewealth: Contracting Giant Delivers Value and Bonuses
Need a reliable dividend stock? That's what employee-shareholders own at Peter Kiewit Sons' Inc. The contractor's stock has outperformed both the S&P 500 and the stocks of other heavy construction firm
Publication Date: 10 May , 2005
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Prosecutor: Ready Mix Supplier Pleads Guilty, Corruption, Price-fixing, Concrete, Antitrust Cases, Concrete Prices, Ready-Mix, Inflation, Larry Lee, Lees Ready-Mix, The Lee Group, Richard Korman
The former president of an Indiana ready-mix supplier has agreed to plead guilty to fixing the price of concrete sold in three Indiana counties in 2003 and 2004.
Publication Date: 09 May , 2005
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Sweeney Under New Fire For Weakening AFL-CIO Finances
Sweeney’s administration has been plagued for years, hitting a low point in 2001 when the carpenters’ union withdrew its 520,000 members from the AFL-CIO over leadership differences with Sweeney. Continuing negotiations between Sweeney
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Publication Date: 09 May , 2005
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California's Kleinfelder Extends Reach with East Coast Buy
San Diego-based Kleinfelder did not reveal the purchase price of Littleton, Mass.-based GSC, but says the deal is "asset-based." The acquisition gives Kleinfelder a unit with nine offices in six East Coast states and a springboard for
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Publication Date: 02 May , 2005
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Dick Corp. Shuts Heavy Unit As Recovery Plan Takes Shape
Dick Corp. has shut down its bridge and highway unit as part of a restructuring plan that the contractor say has the company on the road to financial recovery. The firm recently hired new executives and a
Publication Date: 02 May , 2005
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Revised Code May Force Construction Firms To Change Project Manuals
After four years of deliberation, the Construction Specifications Institute has retooled its numbering system for classifying work results in contract documents. But it may take several more years and mill
Publication Date: 02 May , 2005
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