Chertoff Confirmed as New Homeland Security Secretary
The Dept. of Homeland Security has a new chief, former federal appeals court Judge Michael Chertoff, who was confirmed by the Senate Feb. 15 by a 98-0 vote.
Publication Date: 16 February , 2005
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Fewer Lawsuits? Senate Takes Key Step Forward
The Senate has taken a big first step in reforming the civil liability system.
Publication Date: 15 February , 2005
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Bush's Big Squeeze Hits Construction
In his budget proposal, sent to Congress Feb. 7, Bush says he’s seeking to trim "non-security related discretionary spending" by about 1%. Speaking at a Cabinet meeting the same day, Bush called the proposal "a lean budget,&q
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Publication Date: 14 February , 2005
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Contractor Must Use Contract Procedures To Pursue Claims
In 1997, the City of East Grand Forks, Minn., needed to repair flood damage to several municipal buildings. It hired Kraus-Anderson Construction Co. as construction manager. Cameo Homes was hired by the city as concrete contractor on four projec
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Publication Date: 14 February , 2005
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Contractor's Default on Sales Contract Bars Recovery
Rotec Industries Inc., a conveyor equipment maker, signed an agreement with Guy F. Atkinson Construction Co. that Atkinson would act as subcontractor and consultant on Rotec’s bid to sell equipment to build the $25-billion Three Gorges Dam.
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Publication Date: 14 February , 2005
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Ex-Turner CEO Bob Fee Forms Competitor and Lures Staffers
Fee says that the new firm will be called Hunter Roberts Construction Co. and be in business officially by April 1. He says James C. McKenna, former senior vice president of Turner’s New York business unit, will be Hunter Roberts’ pres
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Publication Date: 14 February , 2005
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Innovation Thrives as Industry Suppliers Roll Out The Next Wave
Some logistical challenges are dampening the excitement. New equipment is rolling out of factories fast, although the rate is starting to subside. Owners who are waiting patiently to have new machines delivered are getting frustrated.
Publication Date: 14 February , 2005
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Skanska Dismisses U.S. Buildings Chief Healy over Losses
A single large U.S. government project that Skanska AB declines to identify is responsble for most of the loss. The move came as Healy was negotiating a new employment contract after his current one expired Dec. 31, say industry sources.
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Publication Date: 14 February , 2005
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Two Design-Build Rivals Form New Venture
The Austin Co. has sold an interest in its Southwest and Midwest regional operations to its design-build competitor AECOM Technology Corp., the Los Angeles based giant, and the two companies have formed a
Publication Date: 10 February , 2005
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Chicago Mayor: Corruption Starts With Campaign Contributions
"This will not just be a ban on so-called corporate contributions, but a ban on the owners of companies and their spouses," says Mayor Richard M. Daley (D). "I would sooner give up this office…than protect contractors who wou
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Publication Date: 09 February , 2005
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Senate Panel Clears Homeland Security Nominee Chertoff
President Bush's pick to lead the Dept. of Homeland Security, federal appellate court Judge Michael Chertoff, has moved a step closer to confirmation. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Publication Date: 08 February , 2005
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12 Turner Execs Join Contractor's Former CEO in New Venture
Former Turner Construction Co. CEO Robert Fee says he is recruiting a dozen executives from Turner to work at a new construction company. Some of the new hires are already on the job.
Publication Date: 07 February , 2005
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Bush 2006 Budget Tight on Spending, But Backs $284-Billion, 6-Year Transport Bill
President Bush's $2.57-trillion budget plan for fiscal year 2006 seeks to clamp down on many construction programs, but also proposes $283.9 billion over six years for the long-stalled surface transportati
Publication Date: 07 February , 2005
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Federal Government Beckons Firms To Star-Spangled Market
The famous government poster with Uncle Sam saying, "I Want YOU for U.S. Army," has defined military recruiting back to World War I and may have new meaning 87 years later. New and changing missi
Publication Date: 07 February , 2005
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Iraq Managers Assess Future
Hope that the unexpectedly successful Iraqi elections on Jan. 30 might signal a change in the insurgent terrorism that has dogged reconstruction was dampened by a rocket attack the day before in Baghdad’s Green Zone that landed in part of t
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Publication Date: 07 February , 2005
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Skanska Dismisses Healy Over 2004 Project Losses
Skanska AB has dismissed Mike Healy, the head of a U.S. buildings unit that lost $47 million on a single large government project in 2004 and $56 million overall.
Publication Date: 04 February , 2005
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Pittsburgh Arena Mop-Up Operations Now Include A Date With a Judge
They’ve been playing basketball at the Petersen Events Center on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh for more than a year. Although many have called the new arena delightful, the school and the
Publication Date: 31 January , 2005
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Skanska Loss of $98.6 Million Tied to British LNG Project
The company did not identify the project or its exact location, but says the contract was not included last year when Skanska sold Whessoe, an engineering and construction subsidiary, because the project was already in construction.
Publication Date: 31 January , 2005
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StateÕs Ethics Battle With Feds Hits Bump
U.S. District Court Judge Stanley R. Chesler rejected New Jersey’s push for a temporary restraining order to force FHWA to release about $350 million in current federal highway funds while the state’s Jan. 13 lawsuit challenging the ba
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Publication Date: 31 January , 2005
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Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Tutor In Subway Dispute
A panel of state appeals court judges has handed controversial contractor Ronald N. Tutor and his two companies, Tutor-Saliba Corp. and Perini Corp., a promising legal victory in their bitter battle with t
Publication Date: 28 January , 2005
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Carpenters Fined Over Training Mix-up
In December, EPA cited the union for claiming its program had been EPA-accredited. It had trained 15 students and issued three student certificates in how to handle lead-based paint materials. Such training requires a facility accreditation from
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Publication Date: 24 January , 2005
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Spie Batignolles Seeks Probe In Nigerian Bribe Conspiracy
Paris-based contractor Spie Batignolles SA filed the fraud complaint last fall, but it was only revealed this month in press accounts. Spie is the former joint venture partner of Bilfinger’s on the Nigeria project and alerted a French judge
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Publication Date: 24 January , 2005
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California Contractors Fight for Funding
California transportation contractors are looking for financial legerdemain that will keep them and the state’s roads programs going if the governor’s proposed budget—which contains another
Publication Date: 17 January , 2005
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Bush Picks Federal Judge Chertoff as Homeland Security Nominee
A month after his previous choice to lead the Dept. of Homeland Security withdrew, President Bush has selected federal judge Michael Chertoff as his nominee to be secretary of the sprawling department. Ch
Publication Date: 11 January , 2005
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Siemens Buys Shaw Group's Power Analysis Unit
The Baton Rouge-based consulting company provides power systems analysis for generation, transmission, electricity distribution and for industrial plants. It provides both technical analysis and analytical softwa
Publication Date: 10 January , 2005
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New House Homeland Security Panel Gains Wide 'Turf'
The House has established a new Homeland Security Committee and given it broad jurisdiction over transportation security matters. The move represents a victory for Rep. Christopher Cox (R-Calif.), who on J
Publication Date: 06 January , 2005
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House GOP Picks Lewis as New Appropriations Chairman
House Republican leaders have selected Rep. Jerry Lewis of California as the new chairman of the Appropriations Committee, which holds sway over annual spending for all the major federal construction prog
Publication Date: 05 January , 2005
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Air Combat Command Scores, Borrowing Football Game Plan
The U.S. Air Force's Air Combat Command, the service's largest major command with more than $1.2 billion in construction and waste cleanup work it performs or manages, used to see 90% of its projects come
Publication Date: 03 January , 2005
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Sterling’s Unusual Succession Plan
Based in Houston, Sterling is a Texas road, paving and pipe contractor founded 50 years ago by James and Richard Manning. In order to facilitate an exit plan for his older brother, James, Chairman Patrick Manning says the company decided to merg
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Publication Date: 03 January , 2005
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World Construction Spending Nears $4 Trillion for 2004
The study assesses each country’s spending history, current construction market, rate of economic development and business risks. It also assesses the projected growth rates of each country, as well as by regional and by broad market catego
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Publication Date: 03 January , 2005
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Global Inflation Gains Momentum
In its thirteenth annual survey of international construction costs conducted exclusively for ENR, the London-based international project and cost management firm reports that construction inflation increased on average 5.2% in 23 nations in Eur
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Publication Date: 22 December , 2004
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Demolition Contractors May Trim Bids If Job Contains Valuable Scrap
Like a discarded antique discovered in your grandfather’s attic, scrap steel in old buildings and industrial sites has become so valuable that some contractors say they have been able to bid at or bel
Publication Date: 20 December , 2004
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Inflation in 2005 Will Fall Back to 3.5%
An unexpected surge in material prices took ENR’s cost indexes on a wild ride this year. Steel prices started rising early in the year and quickly reached record highs. This was followed by steep incr
Publication Date: 20 December , 2004
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It’s a Buyer’s Market as Hard-Hit Design Firms Put Lid on Pay, Bonuses
Among design firm managers, the only positions that saw any increases in median salaries over the past two years were for project managers and market-ing directors, according to a recent sal-ary and compensation survey published by ZweigWhite, a
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Publication Date: 20 December , 2004
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Manufacturers Post Hefty Price Gains
"It is really kind of scary," says Thad Pirtle, vice president of Traylor Bros. Inc., Evansville, Ind. He runs the contractor’s $175-million equipment fleet and says he is "very, very concerned about inflation" going int
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Publication Date: 20 December , 2004
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McGraw-Hill Construction - ENR
Publication Date: 20 December , 2004
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Publication Date: 20 December , 2004
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McGraw-Hill Construction - ENR
Publication Date: 20 December , 2004
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McGraw-Hill Construction - ENR
Publication Date: 20 December , 2004
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Publication Date: 20 December , 2004
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McGraw-Hill Construction - ENR
Publication Date: 20 December , 2004
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New ‘Rules’ Favor Inflation
The moderate inflation rates experienced by the construction industry for much of the 1990s through 2003 may go down in economic text books as a fluke made possible by the rare combination of cheap imports
Publication Date: 20 December , 2004
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States' Budget Pictures Get Brighter
State budgets are continuing their gradual climb out of their worst fiscal hole in decades, governors and state budget officials say. But increased Medicaid costs are keeping states from a faster rebound.
Publication Date: 20 December , 2004
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EPA's Leavitt Tapped as HHS Secretary, Kerik Pulls Out for Homeland Post
Moving to fill one of the last remaining positions in his Cabinet, President Bush has picked Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael O. Leavitt to lead the Dept. of Health and Human Services.
Publication Date: 13 December , 2004
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Top 500 Executives Focus on Deepest Industry Challenges
Even as design firms strug-gle for year-end revenue growth and profitability, they also are weighing deeper industry issues and looking farther out. More than 150 CEOs and other top executives met in New
Publication Date: 13 December , 2004
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OSHA Chief Henshaw Resigns
John L. Henshaw, the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health, said Dec. 8 that he is resigning from his post on Dec. 31. The announcement by Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao did not i
Publication Date: 09 December , 2004
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Emergency Housing Rises In Storm Season's Wake
The landscape looks untroubled along Interstate 75 south of Tampa until you top a rise and see trees shredded, blue tarps blooming on roofs and a half-dozen 80-ft-tall light poles folded over like hairpins
Publication Date: 06 December , 2004
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Hite Expected To Succeed Maddaloni as Plumbers’ President
Members of the plumbers’ union General Executive Board were expected to choose William Hite to succeed ousted General President Martin J. Maddaloni at a Dec. 5th board meeting in Palm Springs, Calif.
Publication Date: 06 December , 2004
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Integrated Electrical Plans Unit Sales Amid Surety Woes
Based in Houston, IES is one of several specialty contractor consolidators formed in the late 1990s. It has 50 separate offices and reported $1.44 billion in revenue in 2003. Until now, high debt was a consolidator’s biggest challenge, espe
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Publication Date: 06 December , 2004
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Former NYPD Official Nominated by Bush for Homeland Security Chief
President Bush nominated Bernard B. Kerik, a former New York police commissioner during the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, to be the second Secretary of Homeland Security. The Dec. 3 ann
Publication Date: 03 December , 2004
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KBR Chief Promoted to No. 2 Spot at Halliburton
Halliburton Co. has promoted Andrew Lane, 45, the head of its KBR engineering and construction unit, to chief operating officer and executive vice president of the parent company. Lane, whose promotion was
Publication Date: 03 December , 2004
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Ridge Announces Resignation as Homeland Security Secretary
Tom Ridge, the first secretary of the Dept. of Homeland Security, announced Nov. 30 that he would be resigning his position effective Feb. 1, or sooner if a successor is confirmed. Ridge, a former governor
Publication Date: 30 November , 2004
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Congress Unzips Purse For Industry Programs
In a frenzied push to end their lame-duck session, Congress gave almost-final approval to a $388.4-billion fiscal 2005 spending package covering most non-defense agencies. The behemoth bill includes the bu
Publication Date: 29 November , 2004
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Plastic Water Pipe Gets California Test
A California appeals court ruled Nov. 17 that PEX (cross-linked polyethylene) pipe will be subject to California Environmental Quality Act review before it can be installed for drinking water in buildings
Publication Date: 29 November , 2004
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Senate Deal Clears Scores of Nominees, Including Several at EPA
A deal among White House officials, and Senate Republican leaders and incoming Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has cleared the way for approving some 165 presidential nominations that Reid blocked for
Publication Date: 24 November , 2004
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Air Supply Critical In Confined Spaces
Over half of the workers who die in confined spaces are trying to rescue another worker and succumb to
Publication Date: 22 November , 2004
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Atlantic City Firefighters Kept Pulling Workers From The Ruins
To find him, firefighters, police and construction workers in the rescue team had to forget about tons of cracked slab and uncured concrete balancing over their heads. They had to keep their minds off the weak-ened columns and wall looming over
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Publication Date: 22 November , 2004
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Bringing Dangling Workers Down Quickly And Calmly
Publication Date: 22 November , 2004
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Coalition Moving Forward On Work Force Initiative
"What you see on this podium is a relationship revolution," said Steven B. Satrom, general manager for construction at Air Products and Chemicals Inc., Allentown, Pa., referring to the theme of the Nov. 8-10 event in Palm Springs, Cali
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Publication Date: 22 November , 2004
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Congress Passes $388-Billion Wrapup Spending Bill
The House and Senate have approved a $388.4-billion fiscal 2005 spending package that wraps together all of the unfinished appropriations measures. The huge measure sets the funding for many major construc
Publication Date: 22 November , 2004
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