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by Tom Finan, Executive Director, Construction Forum The St. Louis County Library will host a public screening of Antagonist, the debut documentary by investigative journalist Ben Westhoff. Westoff is author of the best-selling book Fentanyl, Inc., which traced the global supply chain behind synthetic opioids. At the center of the narrative is Percy Menzies, president […]

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From Mid Rivers Newsmagazine: A new type of development is making its way to Missouri streets. Humming quietly, these buildings, called data centers, house rows of servers that store the data behind everything from social media to hospitals, from 911 calls to information that powers artificial intelligence (AI). While these facilities have been divisive, Missouri […]

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From ASA Midwest Council Newsletter: Employers must develop and document procedures to control hazardous energy whenever employees perform activities covered by the lockout/tagout (LOTO) standard at 29 CFR 1910.147. These procedures give the authorized employee written instructions on how to eliminate the potential for unexpected activation, start up, or the release of stored energy. At […]

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From RiverBender: Community leaders came together in Alton to celebrate the grand opening of a new affordable housing development. On Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025, elected officials and community members gathered at the Alton Sunnybrook Affordable Housing Development at 767 Washington Avenue in Alton for speeches and a ribbon-cutting. Spearheaded by Dr. Ed Hightower, the development […]

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From St. Louis Business Journal: The Missouri Botanical Garden has reopened the historic Linnean House after a renovation to restore the greenhouse to its original purpose. The renovation is part of MoBot’s $100 million Gateway to Garden campaign, which funded its Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center and the Oertli Family Hardy Plant Nursery. Renovation of […]

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The Masonry Institute of St. Louis (MISL) is hosting an in-person continuing education seminar on Tuesday, November 19, focused on the growing use of delegated design in masonry construction. The one-hour lunchtime program, “Delegated Design of Masonry Structures,” will be held from noon to 1:00 PM at The Masonry Centre, 1429 S. Big Bend Blvd., […]

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From Construction Dive: Turner Construction, the largest contractor in the country by revenue, has embarked on a deal with OpenAI to give every Turner employee access to ChatGPT Enterprise, according to a Tuesday announcement. The partnership, which will last for two years, came together as the company made the decision over the summer to go “wall to wall, […]

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Construction Safety Week is the construction industry’s annual week-long event that unites individuals, companies and the broader construction community with a shared commitment to health and safety. The event will take place May 4-8, 2026, with the headline of All In Together and a focus theme of “Recognize, Respond and Respect,” anchored in a unified […]

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From St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune: Windy Chafin, a 25-year member of Operating Engineers Local 513, has won the 2025 Missouri Women in Trades (MOWIT) Tradeswoman of the Year award. Chafin received the award last month at the MOWIT Blue Collar/Black Tie Awards Gala, which was held at the LIUNA Event Center in Sunset Hills. […]

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From St. Louis Public Radio: A new affordable housing complex in Alton, called the Community of Sunnybrook, has nearly filled up with tenants as the developers announced the project’s completion on Wednesday. “We crossed the finish line, and we won the gold medal because the gold medal is this development,” Mayor David Goins said. The $20 […]

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The first vertical construction at the planned Gateway South district in downtown St. Louis is now moving forward. The project is being developed by Good Developments Group, Vault Partners, and The Millstone Company. “As a result of conversations with multiple prospective tenants, we’ve begun design and pre-construction for a 54,000-square-foot speculative industrial building at Gateway […]

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Sanford Sachtleben has joined the team of St. Louis based Architectural Metals Inc. (AMI) as an outside sales representative. He is owner of Sterling Architectural Products. AMI is the Midwest’s leading anodizing firm and is a sister company to Winco Window Company, a commercial aluminum window manufacturer. “Sanford joins our team with more than 30 […]

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From St. Louis Business Journal: A proposal submitted to the city of Clayton Nov. 2 outlines a mixed-use development at 61 Topton Way, part of Caleres’ current headquarters site. It would consist of one six-story, 95,682-square-foot building with 29 condominium units over retail space and a parking garage. The site, at the corner of Topton […]

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From St. Louis Business Journal: A vacant 200,000-square-foot office building in St. Louis County has been sold twice in the last few months, each time for more than $5 million. The former Magellan Health Services building at 14100 Magellan Plaza in Maryland Heights first sold to an investor and then to a church, commercial real […]

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From Office of the Mayor of The City of St. Louis: Mayor Cara Spencer announced today that Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge, Director of St. Louis Lambert International Airport, will retire in the fall of 2026. Hamm-Niebruegge has served as Airport Director since January 2010, during which time she has led the airport through natural disaster, helped secure […]

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 St. Luke’s Hospital has broken ground on a new 15,000-square-foot medical building in St. Charles County, continuing the system’s strategy to bring outpatient and specialty care closer to where people live. The project is located at 5940 Mexico Road in St. Peters. The single-story facility will house specialty services, diagnostic capabilities, and advanced outpatient care. […]

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From Bob Clark Beyond: Every so often, humanity takes a leap that redefines what’s possible — the microprocessor, the internet, artificial intelligence. Now, we’re standing at the edge of another transformation that could change not just how we work, but how we think.Quantum computing feels like that next great leap. Traditional processors have powered incredible progress, […]

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From RE Journals: St. Louis’ KAI Build welcomed back Marisol Ramos as Project Manager at its St. Louis headquarters.  Ramos was previously an Assistant Project Manager for KAI 360 Construction Services in 2021 before transferring to the Build group until 2024. Ramos is a talented Project Manager with more than nine years of experience in the construction […]

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From The St. Louis American: The city of St. Louis, in partnership with Missouri Green Banc has received a $250,000 grant from the Municipal Investment Fund to develop public-private partnership plans for building an innovative pipeline of investments to bring down energy prices for St. Louisans. The Coalition for Green Capital, which is supported by […]

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From McKinsey & Company: For decades, the construction industry has wrestled with both rising demand and shrinking labor capacity. Productivity has stagnated, and the situation could soon worsen: Many workers are nearing retirement, and fewer young people are entering the field because of safety concerns, uncertainty about future prospects, and the physical intensity of construction […]

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