From Labor Tribune: The proposed sale of the Granite City steel mill could eliminate at least 1,000 jobs – but not without the union’s consent. Dan Simmons, president of United Steelworkers Local 1899, said that without the union’s approval, the deal to sell the two blast furnaces to SunCoke can’t go forward. That’s because there’s a […]
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Two state lawmakers are attempting to get federal compensation for Missouri residents affected by the St. Louis region’s role in developing the atomic bomb. On Tuesday, a House committee will hear testimony on a resolution filed by Wentzville-area Republican Reps. Tricia Byrnes and Richard West, each of whom have relatives who had cancer. The […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: An apartment developer’s plan for a boutique office project in Midtown that was delayed for years by the pandemic is starting construction and has expanded into a larger development with an apartment complex. Pier Property Group first said in 2019 that it would renovate the vacant former Rock Hill Spring School […]
From emissourian.com:Â Demolition work on the deck of the Highway 30 bridge over Interstate 44 in St. Clair could cause traffic snarls this week. The bridge and all entrance and exit ramps will close to traffic at 7 a.m. Thursday, March 2, according to a Missouri Department of Transportation news release. Bridge demolition will take place […]
From Builder Online: Panelists James Tobin, Keta Kosman, and Ed Brady shared the short-term outlook for legislation surrounding housing issues, lumber, and the labor market during the education session “The Outlook: A Complete Guide to Housing Trends, Forecasts, & Insights for 2023” at the 2023 International Builders’ Show in Las Vegas. During the session, moderated by NAHB […]
From Contractor Magazine: “With interest rates projected to normalize in the second half of 2023 as the Federal Reserve taps the brakes in its fight against inflation, the pace of single-family construction will bottom out in the first half of 2023 and begin to improve in the latter part of the year,” said Robert Dietz, chief […]
From NEXTSTL:Â This past week, a Missouri House committee advanced HB580, a bill that would place statewide limits on residential building energy codes and potentially make it illegal for St. Louis area municipalities to enforce portions of locally adopted ordinances. If made into law, the bill would weaken the 2018 suite of International Code Council (ICC) […]
From The Edwardsville Intelligencer:Â Don Garber has taken in plenty of new teams’ home openers during his time as Major Legaue Soccer commissioner. Since he assumed office in 1999, the league has grown from 10 teams to 30. Garber said he’s never seen anything quite like Saturday night’s St. Louis City SC inaugural home game at […]
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: One of the first major construction projects around the perimeter of the under-construction National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency took a major step forward Wednesday after a city board voted to approve variances for the construction of an office building and hotel. The projects are proposed on the site of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe public housing […]
From Contractor Magazine: The construction industry will need to attract an estimated 546,000 additional workers on top of the normal pace of hiring in 2023 to meet the demand for labor, according to a proprietary model developed by Associated Builders and Contractors. “The construction industry must recruit hundreds of thousands of qualified, skilled construction professionals […]
From Korte: When Darlene Rutkowski-Hanks became an architect, she knew she’d design residential houses and apartment complexes. With any luck, she’d work her way up to hospitals and office buildings. But a fence strong enough to stop a tire flying at 200 miles per hour from hitting patrons at a NASCAR race? “That was crazy. […]
This past Monday (Feb. 27) Richard “Richie” Boyd Jr. was supposed to be doing his intake interview for the Laborers Union at their training facility in High Hill. Instead, his father, longtime laborer Richard Boyd Sr., was planning his funeral. Richie Boyd Jr. was one of four teens killed when a hit-and-run driver rammed the […]
From Construction Dive:Â Hundreds of thousands of hard hats went unfilled as 2022 came to a close. The construction industry had 413,000 job openings in December, according to an analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data from Associated Builders and Contractors. The BLS data measures the number of jobs for which employers are actively recruiting. […]
From Contractor Magazine: City of St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones has signed legislation adopting the 2021 Uniform Plumbing Code (UPC), updating the city’s code from the 2009 edition of the UPC. The adoption was recommended by the city’s Committee of Plumbing Code Review and has the enthusiastic support of St. Louis’ plumbing industry. Alderman Bret Narayan (Ward […]
From The Fabricator: In early February, Josh Welton, a professional welder and a columnist for The FABRICATOR’s sister magazine The WELDER, responded to a Twitter post that claimed working at a fast food restaurant, in this case McDonald’s, was skilled labor. He said, “Tossing around words that have meaning in this context deludes the meaning of those words. […]
From Contractor Magazine: Construction input prices rose 1.3% in January, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Producer Price Index data released today. Nonresidential construction input prices increased 1.1% for the month. Overall construction input prices are 4.9% higher than a year ago, which is the smallest […]
From Call Newspapers: A bill that would require cities and counties across Missouri to pay for electric vehicle chargers in order to mandate businesses install them won House approval Feb 16. The bill, which is sponsored by Republican Rep. Jim Murphy of Oakville and heads to the state Senate after last Thursday’s 105-36 vote, also says local […]
From HOK: In a story offering opposing viewpoints on the need for high-speed rail in the U.S., Scripps News asked HOK Director of Transportation Luke Bridle to discuss how new stations could impact cities and the environment. “Transportation stations play an integral role in issues of sustainability, equity and development,” said Bridle. “When designed well, a high-speed rail station can […]
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:Grocery chain Dierbergs has plans to open a store at the new Markets at Olive development in University City. The grocer would build a roughly 65,000-square-foot store at the development, at Interstate 170 and Olive Boulevard, near the new Costco, according to plans filed with the city. Costco is the only retailer […]
From Mid Rivers News Magazine: More changes are coming to the area around Bangert Island, and access to the island will be challenged temporarily. To construct the large water feature associated with the Riverpointe development, which will run the length of the original Bangert Island, the city of St. Charles will need to remove nearly 40 acres […]
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