Contractor News
AGC and Computer Guidance Establish Partnership
Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Computer Guidance Corp., a leading developer of financial and project management software solutions for architecture, engineering and construction companies, recently formed a strategic partnership with the Associated General Contractors of America, naming Computer Guidance as a member of its Affinity Program....
Mortenson Construction Deploys Texada’s Systematic Asset Management System
Texada Software last week announced that Mortenson Construction has successfully deployed Texada’s Systematic asset management system within its equipment facility network to manage its construction assets throughout North America....
New Study Shows Green Building to Support Nearly 8 Million U.S. Jobs Over Next 4 Years
Despite a challenging economic outlook, green building will support 7.9 million U.S. jobs and pump $554 billion into the American economy — including $396 billion in wages — over the next four years, according to a new study from the U.S. Green Building Council and Booz Allen Hamilton. The study also determined that green construction spending currently supports more than 2 million American jobs and generates more than $100 billion in gross domestic product and wages....
Kansas Contractors Association Wins National Award for Training Program
The Kansas Contractors Association and six other leading construction professionals, companies and chapters were recognized last week for developing successful training programs, the Associated General Contractors of America announced. The winners, which were announced during the AGC HR and Training & Development Conference in Atlanta, received the first-ever Education Excellence Awards designed to recognize the construction craft, and supervisory and management programs....
ACPA Announces Annual Meeting Program
The American Concrete Pavement Association last week posted its schedule of events and other pertinent details for its 46th annual meeting, which will be held in Orlando, Fla., beginning Nov. 30....
National Careers in Construction Week October 12-16
The National Center for Construction Education and Research last week announced that the fifth annual Careers in Construction Week will take place Oct. 12-16....
AGC Proposes Blueprint for Economic Growth
The Associated General Contractors of America last week unveiled a plan designed to revive the hardest hit sector of the economy, the nation’s construction industry. The plan, “Build Now for the Future: A Blueprint for Economic Growth,” is designed to reverse predictions that construction activity will continue to shrink through 2010, which would cripple broader economic growth....
Contractor Study Reveals MEWPs are Safer
Research on “Selection of Access Equipment” commissioned by United Kingdom-based Crown House Technologies, part of the Laing O’Rourke Group, revealed that mobile elevating work platforms are safer and more effective compared with other methods for work at height....
National Construction Fatality Rate Declines 47 Percent Over 10 Years, AGC Reports
The national construction fatality rate declined 47 percent and the number of recordable safety incidents dropped 38 percent since the federal government switched to a safety oversight approach known as “collaborative safety” in 1998, according to an analysis of federal safety data released last week by the Associated General Contractors of America....
Contractor Breaks Ground on Alaska’s Goose Creek Corrections Center
Anchorage, Alaska-based general contractor Neeser Construction recently broke ground on Alaska’s Goose Creek Corrections Center. The $240 million project, located near Point MacKenzie, Alaska, is the largest building construction project for the state in recent history. The 435,000-square-foot medium-security facility will house more than 1,500 inmates and is scheduled to be completed in late 2011. The project is expected to create about 700 construction jobs and approximately 400 full-time jobs once construction is complete....
Stimulus-Funded Projects Creating New Jobs Nationwide, AGC Reports
Construction companies nationwide are reporting that the stimulus bill passed in February is enabling them to hire new workers, according to a reported issued by the Associated General Contractors....
Dur-A-Flex Launches Contractor Academy
East Hartford, Conn.-based Dur-A-Flex Inc. recently welcomed its first group of attendees to its new Contractor Academy for Owners, a program designed for independent, commercial floor business owners looking for a competitive edge in their industry....
Identity Thieves Target Louisville Rental Companies
General contractor Lichtefeld Inc. has been victimized by identity theft, the company reported to the Better Business Bureau of Louisville. According to online reports, the company said thieves have impersonated company employees, put the Lichtefeld name on the side of construction trucks and stolen more than $50,000 worth of items from rental centers, hardware stores and equipment dealerships by opening accounts in the company name....
Wisconsin Contractor Develops Crane Rental Division
RJS Construction Group, a general contractor based in Superior, Wis., recently established a crane rental affiliate RJS Industrial Services Group, according to businessnorth.com, an online news service covering northern Minnesota and Wisconsin. Finding reduced demand for its fleet of rock-crushing equipment, RJS sold those assets and upgraded its fleet of cranes, which it has since rented for bridge repair, pipeline and wind farm construction....
RSC Equipment Rental to Host Minority Subcontractor Event
RSC Equipment Rental last week announced it is teaming up with the Wichita, Kan., Hispanic Chamber of Commerce to host “Educating Today, Building Tomorrow,” a seminar built for subcontractors that emphasizes the topics that affect minorities in the workplace. The event will take place Wednesday, March 11, from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. at RSC Equipment Rental’s west branch, 9127 W. Kellogg Drive, Wichita, Kan....
Russian Contractors Visit University of Multiquip
As reported last week in RER Reports, more than 30 Russian contractors from Moscow, St. Petersburg and other areas visited Multiquip in Carson, Calif., from Feb. 9-11. Their objective was to experience “super-flat floors” for the first time with the Whiteman line of finishing products and to acquire different methods to help them maximize their knowledge and productivity....
Proposed Infrastructure Investments Will Help Create or Support Nearly 2 Million Jobs, Economist Tells Congress
New proposed infrastructure and public building investments will create or support almost two million jobs throughout the entire economy in part because of the economic slowdown and massive construction layoffs that have occurred, George Mason University economist Stephen Fuller testified last week....
South Florida Contractor Starts 2009 with 13 New Construction Projects
RCC Associates, a general contractor based in Deerefield Beach, Fla., last week said it has so far been awarded 13 new projects to start 2009....
