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From West Newsmagazine:  At a recent Creve Coeur City Council joint work session with the economic development committee, Emily Lohse-Busch, executive director of what’s now known as the 39 North AgTech Innovation District, offered a detailed progress review of the development. The development is an agricultural and biotech district mainly in the eastern part of […]

From Fox News:  Darnell Jamison is a Construction Career Development Initiative alumnus. He’s now a successful journeyman carpenter. “I love it. Every day of it,” he said. From drywall demonstrations to electrical work and even painting, experts like Jamison showcased their skills as they inspired the next generation of tradespeople. “It gives them an opportunity […]

From Next City:  Public service projects are the nuts and bolts of a community – they play a crucial role in holding it together. These projects, whether fixing roads, providing social services or other community-oriented efforts, are the glue that allows communities to thrive. They bring back “third spaces” as places where people can gather […]

From Leader Publications:  A forensic crime lab in Jefferson County should be up and running sometime in 2025. The Jefferson County Council voted unanimously on Feb. 25 to approve spending up to $6.13 million to build the lab in Pevely. The council awarded the construction contract to the lowest of five bidders, K&S Construction of […]

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  St. Louis-based general contracting firm Integrate Construction Partners has started construction on a new $11.5 million government center for the City of Eureka, MO. The new facility, to be named the Michael A. Wiegand Justice Center after the city’s police chief, will house Eureka’s police department, municipal court and city offices. […]

From KSDK:  An Amtrak line connecting Dallas and New York City may have St. Louis as its mid-point stop, according to new maps released by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). The proposed Dallas/Fort Worth – New York Line would travel southwest from the East Coast to Texas while cutting through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri […]

by Bob Clark, Executive Chairman and Founder, Clayco From Bob Clark Beyond: Since I acquired a self-inflicted poor education, I was really going to need life teachers and business mentors. As a well-defined Attention Deficit member, in the fifth grade my mind was on the construction project next to my school instead of studying during […]

From REjournals:  To mark Women in Construction Week 2024 – which enters its final day today – Clayco, which has Midwest offices in Overland and Clayton, Missouri; Lenexa, Kansas; and Chicago, polled its female leaders about the many myths surrounding women in the construction industry and the actual truths that shatter those falsehoods. Here is […]

by Tom Finan, Executive Director, Construction Forum Earlier this week, we wrote an article quoting Brandon Anderson, vice president of AGCMO on the need for more proactive action in the area of mental health for our construction team members. There’s a tremendous amount of momentum behind the movement of bringing awareness to the industry. We […]

by Jennifer K. Hasamear, S. M. Wilson & Co. For decades, women have made strides in male-dominated industries, including the construction industry, where females continue to eliminate roadblocks and embrace challenges each year. A 2023 report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) revealed that the number of women in the construction industry has hit […]

From St. Louis Business Journal:  A state-court judge on Tuesday ordered former Fabick Cat CEO Doug Fabick to sell his voting stake in the Caterpillar construction equipment dealer, a move he’s resisted since being ousted as leader in 2022. Doug Fabick departed as CEO and dealer principal in March 2022, in a move OK’d by […]

From Illinois Business Journal:  The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the appointments of 30 members to serve on the Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship to advise the Secretary of Labor on issues related to the national apprenticeship system. As part of the announcement, Daniel Serota, a member of the Illinois Workforce Innovation Board (IWIB) and […]

From NPR:  Neighborhoods around the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s new headquarters in north St. Louis may soon see more new development thanks to a piece of legislation signed by Mayor Tishaura Jones on Tuesday. The bill establishes a redevelopment plan and blighting study for roughly 821 acres in the Jeff-Vander-Lou, St. Louis Place and Carr Square […]

From St. Louis-Mo.Gov:  Urban Strategies, Inc. (USI) in partnership with the City of St. Louis Community Development Agency (CDA) is looking for local artists to design artwork for five, two-dimensional public art opportunities in the Near North Side as part of the Choice Neighborhood Initiative (CNI). Applications are open to St. Louis area-based artists and […]

From Illinois Business Journal:  Periods of time where visitors to the St. Clair County Administration and Courts Building in Belleville may have to use a different entrance and exit point are anticipated to be occurring in the not-too-distant future as part of a major renovation of the structure that is currently underway. The public’s best […]

From Construction Dive:  Infrastructure builders must shift their thinking as environmental pressures increase and generational needs change, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers’ new President Marsia Geldert-Murphey. She takes the reins at the country’s oldest engineering trade group amid an upswell in federal infrastructure funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, as […]

From Riverbender.com:  New Route 66 experiences will be added along the Last 100 Miles of Route 66 in Illinois with the announcement of over $850,000 in grants from the Great Rivers & Routes Tourism Bureau in partnership with the Illinois Office of Tourism and the Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity. The grants will fund […]

From St. Louis Business Journal:  The need to attract and retain employees has led construction giant Clayco to roll out a two-part program to help speed up repayment of workers’ student loans. Last fall, there was some buzz from Clayco’s workforce about the end of the Covid-19 loan forbearance, and some employees approached leadership to […]

From JLC:  Q. Can an intense fire damage a poured concrete or slab foundation? A. Peter Marxhausen, a forensic structural engineer and civil engineering instructor at the University of Colorado Denver and author of “Engineering Evaluation of Fire Damage to Concrete Foundations” (Structure, August 2014), responds: Yes, an intense wildfire or structural fire can cause […]

From West News Magazine:  The Chesterfield Family YMCA has requested an amendment to the existing planned commercial district for a 5.6-acre tract of land located at 16464 Burkhardt Place. The Chesterfield City Council took a first reading of the proposed zoning ordinance on March 4. The ordinance would require the hours at the new facility […]