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Construction firms plan to hire, not cut, workers
More construction firms are planning to hire workers this year than are planning to make layoffs, according to a survey released by the Associated General Contractors of America and Navigant.
While 55 percent of firms laid off staff and only 20 ... Read More...
Build now, pay later
A $1.8 billion road project in Florida is being done for the state without the state itself paying a penny for it. Yet.
The repair and widening of I-595 will be finished before the contractor gets paid. It's a public-private arrangement ... Read More...
SAFETEA-LU Extended Again. Again.
I suppose the best that can be said of it is that they didn't go playing brinkmanship games.
The House just went ahead and approved a $1.2 trillion continuing resolution to keep federal agencies (including Federal highway programs) funded and thus ... Read More...
New highways create jobs. What if they are foreign?
Uh oh.
Is this something we are going to see more of?
The case is among the first brought by a union to stop a public project being handled by private investors, an area that is growing in the U.S. ... Read More...
It’s this simple. Good roads cost us less.
Here is a very simple observation made by a newspaperman after the release of a new report. He points out that it costs us more to have bad roads than to keep good ones in good shape.
Pennsylvanians are spending ... Read More...
The Kansas Crunch
I keep coming across scenarios that worry me because they could be the tips of icebergs. As funding for transportation projects at all government levels become harder to find and even harder to predict, more and more important projects have to ... Read More...
Upon further review — a Stimulus update
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) has released a new report on the Recovery Act, arguing with numbers and project stories that the Stimulus is working and working well.
According to AASHTO executive director John Horsley ,"These ... Read More...
Dirty Job’s Mike Rowe launches AEM campaign
Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) and Mike Rowe, creator and host of Discovery Channel’s “Dirty Jobs,” joined forces today in Washington, D.C. for the launch of I Make America, a national grassroots campaign to promote U.S. manufacturing jobs through infrastructure ... Read More...
Advance registrations for ConExpo-Con/Agg, IFPE 2011 expositions open
Advance registration is now open for the CONEXPO-CON/AGG and IFPE 2011 expositions. One registration allows access to the exhibits of both shows, and advance registration saves more than 35 percent off the onsite rates.
Attendees can also register in advance for ... Read More...
Are you smarter than the highway?
In Washington state, highways are getting smarter. Crews will install a series of electronic speed-limit and lane status signs over each northbound lane on Washington state's I-5 between Boeing Access Road and I-90 in Seattle.
The high-tech signs are set to ... Read More...
Granite Construction to release Q2 results August 2
Watsonville, Calif.-based Granite Construction says it will release its second quarter 2010 financial results before the market opens on Monday, Aug. 2, 2010, the company announced today.
Granite management will host a conference call at 8 a.m. PT/11 a.m. ET to ... Read More...
Topcon acquires InlandGEO
Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) announced on May 26 its acquistion of InlandGEO, one of Topcon’s top performing distributors. InlandGEO is headquartered in Madrid, Spain, and has four additional offices in Spain, two in Portugal and one in the Canary Islands.
In ... Read More...
