Sparks shooting out of a bedroom wall socket, arcing from the main electrical panel, flickering lights, and exposed light fixtures with hanging wires – all the result of a slick repair sales pitch that made Angela Bryant’s first home a nightmare. Faced with up to $6,000 in electrical repairs to her home in St. Louis’ […]
The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT), in conjunction with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and its community partners, is hosting a second open house public meeting for Future64 on January 18 between 4:00 and 7:00 p.m. at the COLLAB Workspace in Cortex, 4220 Duncan Avenue third floor, St. Louis, MO 63110. During the meeting, engineers […]
From Construction Dive: Construction leaders can expect institutional building construction to hover around the same level of activity in 2023 as it did in 2022, said Richard Branch, chief economist at Dodge Construction Network. Dodge forecasts institutional building starts, which include education, health care, recreation and transportation structures, to hit $171 billion in 2023, the same […]
From World Of Concrete: If you’re experiencing higher levels of backlog you’re not alone. A recent report from Associated Builders and Contractors revealed that backlogs for construction contractors are now at their highest point since the second quarter of 2019. The ABC report, known as the “Construction Backlog Indicator,” showed that backlog has increased by almost a month on average […]
From Construction Dive: The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will boost activity in the civil construction space in 2023, according to Dodge Construction Network. Dodge expects civil construction starts, such as public transit, roads, bridges, EV charging stations, water-related projects and power plants, to total $281 billion in 2023, a 16% jump from last year. […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: A St. Charles County luxury apartment complex completed early last year sold at the end of December for $70 million. Bold on Blvd, a 272-unit apartment complex at 1100 St. Peters Circle Blvd. in St. Peters, was purchased by an undisclosed New Jersey-based private firm making its first investment in […]
From World Of Concrete: Some large contractors are reducing absenteeism and logging fewer OSHA-recordable injuries by inviting physical therapists to work on their jobsites. It’s not unusual to have an EMT standing by on a construction site in case a serious injury requires medical attention or a trip to the hospital. But at a smattering of […]
From Chicago Construction News: U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin and Senator Tammy Duckworth have secured more than $182 million for Illinois projects in the Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23) Omnibus Appropriations Act. The bill passed the Senate and now heads to the House of Representatives. “This appropriations package makes significant investments in the future of […]
From Washington University’s The Source: The Neuroscience Research Building under construction on the Washington University Medical Campus promises great discoveries in an environmentally friendly building that meets sustainability goals. The completed structure will contain energy-efficient, low-energy research freezers in laboratories; electric charging stations in the parking garage; and numerous other sustainability-focused elements. The 11-story, 609,000-square-foot […]
From Leader Publication: The city of Arnold has started lining up projects to improve the Arnold Recreation Center, but with more projects still needed, it is unknown when work will begin on the facility at 1695 Missouri State Road. City Council members voted 7-0 on Dec. 1 to pay a total of $869,883 to have the […]
When the Save A Lot in Pagedale closed in November of 2021, it was a major blow to a community that had worked hard to bring the kinds of things to Pagedale and the surrounding communities that are commonplace most anywhere else. Like a grocery store. Opened in 2010, the Save A Lot was the […]
This week the camera of Construction Forum Louis Kelly, owner of Drone Eagle LLC, drone captured bustling activity on Olive Boulevard just east of I-170. The Costco Store which anchors the site 31-acre-site being developed by Larry Chapman, CEO of Seneca Commercial Real Estate and Bob Clark, CEO of Clayco and its CRG development was […]
Cathy Westerheide, Director of Sales for G&S Acoustics and FabricWall, will retire effective December 29, 2022, marking the conclusion of a notable 29-year career with Golterman & Sabo, the parent company of G & S Acoustics. “Cathy’s relationships with our customers and reps have been outstanding,” says Herb Golterman, CEO. “She has that rare talent […]
There has been much conjecture from employers, union leaders, school administrators and others on what role high school should know before going into the skilled trades. University of Missouri Extension researcher Doug Swanson, EdD, decided to ask workers who had been in the industry for two decades two things: What they learned, or wished they […]
St. Louis is the No. 11 growth city in America, according to the U-Haul® Growth Index analyzing customer moves during 2022. People arriving in St. Louis in one-way U-Haul trucks increased 12% over 2021 while departures increased only 5%. Do-it-yourself movers arriving in St. Louis accounted for 51.2% of all one-way U-Haul truck traffic in […]
From The Korte Company: Every challenge is also an opportunity. You can learn more from things that go wrong than those that go perfectly to plan. This was definitely one of those moments. Something major happened in 1990. A rare mistake forced the company to rethink who we were and how we did business. It […]
From Pro Builder: Sales have slowed, price increases have ceased, labor and material costs remain high. To add insult to injury, mortgage interest rates have doubled. The result is a significant squeeze on home builder margins, especially compared with the sky-high profit levels of the COVID years. Understandably, builders of all types are looking for solutions—ideally […]
From Call Newspapers: The St. Louis County Planning Commission held a public hearing Dec. 19 on a petition for administrative offices and an overnight boarding facility for a dog rescue nonprofit in Affton. Needy Paws Rescue, a volunteer nonprofit organization that rescues dogs from kill shelters and takes in strays and surrendered pets in the area, […]
From St. Louis Public Radio: Aurora Bihler has spent the past nine years as a union ironworker in St. Louis. It wasn’t always her career plan, but, with a degree in fine arts and sculpture, she realized she needed to find a more stable career. The path wasn’t easy, but Bihler hopes that others — […]
From Construction Dive: Dive Brief:Construction’s job openings were largely flat in November compared to the month before, according to new Bureau of Labor Statistics data. The amount of unfilled positions for which contractors are actively recruiting declined by 2,000 to 388,000, according to analysis from Associated Builders and Contractors. That small drop — down less than […]
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