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bids from contractors because each exceeds the district’s budget for a planned stadium at Drake University. The total cost of the stadium to be built next to the Knapp Center is projected to be $19.5 million,  including construction, architecture and design, utilities, furnishings, permits, inspections and other necessities. The district will pay $15 million from a sales tax fund called SAVE (Secure an Advanced Vision for Education) and Drake will raise the remaining $4.5 million through ...

Yves here. It looks as if Tim Conway was hung a bit out to dry by the Biden Administration. This post launched yesterday, which was supposed to be the day when Biden filled in the details of his Build Back Better. Biden had promises lots of infrastructure goodies, with emphasis on green projects. But the Administration has dithered a month with its $1.9 trillion stimulus package in trying to make it a bi-partisan project, and has since given up and is now pursuing it as a Democratic party deal....

Dive Brief: A new law in New York expands the definition of workers and puts more responsibility on contractors to report fatalities to a state registry of on-the-job construction deaths, including demographic data about victims.   New York Senate Bill S1302, which was signed into law Feb. 16, amends previous language about workers to include “direct employees, contracted employees, subcontracted employees, independent contractors, temporary or contingency workers, apprentices, interns, volu...

According to Construction Dive, the inspector, Francesco Ginestri, was charged

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Dive Brief: The construction industry took the first step this month toward a BIM standard in the U.S. during an executive roundtable discussion hosted by the National Institute of Building Sciences. The 40 roundtable participants included executives from Autodesk, Bentley, WSP and HDR, as well as leaders from federal agencies like the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Highway Administration. NIBS has already developed a national standard through a volunteer effort, but it has not e...

Share it On Thursday, Democratic lawmakers reintroduced the PRO Act, the sweeping labor rights bill that was passed by the House of Representatives last year. Construction groups representing workers, unions and employers alike say they are watching intently to see how the bill, or parts of it, would affect the industry if it becomes law.  By redefining “employees” and “employers” in revisions to the National Labor Relations Act, the Protecting the Right to Organize Act grants benefits...

Share it When Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, a former construction union leader, appears before a Senate committee this morning in the first round of hearings for his nomination as Secretary of Labor, its likely many in the construction industry will be wondering how he might influence the federal policies and regulations under which they work. Born in Boston, Walsh joined Laborers’ International Union of North America Local 223 in 1988 and worked his way up through the ranks to lead both Local 22...

Resources - Florida Supreme Court Amends Summary Judgment Procedural Rule to Mirror Federal Doctrine - Florida courts have required the moving party to "conc...

“ ” – Yogi Berra Construction industry forecasts are difficult in a “normal year” (remember those?), let alone a year following a global pandemic. The fact that the pandemic is not yet in the rearview mirror coupled with: (1) the election of a new president with very different policies than the prior administration; (2) an apparent partisan logjam in Washington; and (3) general uncertainty about the economy, this “Yogi-ism” is particularly germane. However, having analyzed the...