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The paper examines the waste produced once solar panels, lithium-ion batteries and windmills reach the end of their useful life.

Carton Council Carton Council appoints director of government affairs Jordan Fengel, former executive director of the State of Texas Alliance for Recycling, will help with government affairs for the Carton Council. The Carton Council, Denton, Texas, has appointed Jordan Fengel as its new director of government affairs. The Carton Council is composed of four carton manufacturers—Elopak, Evergreen Packaging, SIG Combibloc and Tetra Pak—and is focused on delivering collaborative solutions to ...

AGC's latest survey shows widespread pessimism among contractors about the volume of work available in 2021.

Share it Editor’s note: This story is part of a series on the trends that will shape the industry in 2021. You can find all the articles on our trendline. Dive Brief: Contractors expect 13 of 16 construction categories to shrink in 2021, with only alternative healthcare facilities, warehouses and water and sewer facilities eking out small gains. They also don’t anticipate the business environment to return to pre-pandemic levels at least until the second half of the year, according to the A...

2021 looks to be slow for construction firms in U.S. and Minnesota After a rocky 2020, project delays and cancellations expected to continue.  January 7, 2021 — 5:43pm Text size Copy shortlink: Construction firms across Minnesota and the U.S. are bracing for a solemn 2021 as demand wanes and projects are postponed or canceled as clients wrestle with the coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout. That is the situation according ...

By Nikki Courtney Jan 8, 2021 As every industry takes an economic blow from the effects of the pandemic, the construction industry is taking it from all sides. The Association of General Contractors has come out with their 2021 Construction Hiring and Business Outlook, survey of more than 1300 contractors across the nation assessing their best guess of what the unfolding year will hold, and it’s pretty bleak. Included are 132 Texas firms, and their results are here. After a very promising r...

The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) and Sage Construction and Real forecast the COVID-19 pandemic to shrink construction demand, decrease new hires and increase cancelled or delayed production in 2021. AGC and Sage conducted the 2021 Construction Outlook National Survey, which accumulated 1,329 responses, and discussed the results in a Facebook Live event with a panel of contractors on Thursday. The survey concluded that most companies anticipate declining demand for work ...

AGC survey reveals that over 50% of US contractors do not expect business to return to pre-pandemic levels for more than six months

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Indeed Tower is under construction in downtown Austin, Texas. Named for the Internet job search company that will occupy much of its space, the building is tracking for a May 2021 opening. (Jay Janner/American-Statesman/TNS) 2021 looks to be slow for construction firms across the US Construction firms across the U.S. are bracing for a solemn 2021 as demand wanes and projects are postponed or canceled as clients wrestle with the coronavirus pandemic and its economic ...

data: US Department of Commerce; graph: ForConstructionPros.com U.S. Commerce Department data from November measured the value of total U.S. construction put in place rising 0.9% to a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of $1.459 trillion, the highest level since the government started tracking the series in 2002. The number was lifted by residential construction spending that soared on a 5.1% leap in single-family housing construction, as nonresidential construction spending fell 0.6%. Te...