Category Archives: Business News
Construction Hiring Regains Some Vigor in September
Excerpt from an article in USA Today: Last week’s mildly positive jobs report was bolstered by better-than-usual hiring in an industry hammered by job losses. … Continue Reading
Money $3.5 Bn in projects Planned for Mexico City’s Paseo de la Reforma
Excerpt from Fox News: Mexico City – A total of $3.5 billion will be invested between 2011 and 2016 in the construction of 16 skyscrapers … Continue Reading
Construction Employment Increased in 146 out of 337 Metro Areas Between August 2010 & 2011 as Private Sector Demand Improves
Construction employment increased in 146 out of 337 metropolitan areas between August 2010 and August 2011, declined in 145 and stayed level in 46, according … Continue Reading
MGM Resorts Says It Will Demolish Flawed CityCenter Tower
Excerpt from Casino City Times: LAS VEGAS, Nevada — MGM Resorts International says there’s only one way out for the flawed 27-story Harmon Tower: explosives. … Continue Reading
Top 30 iPad and iPhone Apps for Construction
Excerpt from article in ConstructionWeekOnline.com: It’s no secret that we love Apple – run a search for “apple” site:softwareadvice.com in Google and you’ll see what … Continue Reading
The Construction Workers Have Left the Building
Excerpt of an article from Slate: Since the beginning of the year, something extraordinary has happened in one of the sectors hardest hit by the … Continue Reading
Decade After 9/11 World Trade Center Attacks, Skyscraper Safety Improving
Excerpt from article on Cleveland.com: In the anguished weeks after terrorists toppled the World Trade Center towers, architects and engineers pondered the unthinkable: the end … Continue Reading
Ground Zero Hotel Files Lawsuit
Excerpt of an article from MYFOXNY.COM – The Millenium Hilton Hotel next to the World Trade Center site says the construction is too noisy. The … Continue Reading
Is Illegal Immigrant Entitled to Comp Benefits? Court Decides
Excerpt of article from HR Morning: Luis Aragon, an illegal immigrant, worked for HDV Construction Systems in Tallahassee, FL. After a 30-foot fall, he required … Continue Reading
Engineering Company Finds Harmon Tower Construction Defects ‘Pervasive’
Excerpt of article from the Las Vegas Review-Journal: The unfinished Harmon tower at CityCenter is virtually unrepairable and could collapse in a “code-level” earthquake, according … Continue Reading

