The 133-year-old Merchants Bridge celebrated its official grand reopening September 15, following the completion of a landmark $222 million project to replace the vital artery that links Missouri and Illinois near downtown St. Louis. Dating back to the 1890s, the Merchants Bridge serves six Class I railroads and Amtrak as a bridge crossing across the […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: Nationally, union membership continued to decline in 2021, falling by nearly 5% from 2020. However, this didn’t translate to the membership at the largest unions in St. Louis. The Business Journal’s annual list of the largest St. Louis-area labor unions, ranked by membership, showed that the top 24 unions reported […]
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Residents visiting the Maryland Heights Community Center this fall may notice some new developments. The city has partnered with Ameren Missouri to install solar arrays in the parking lot at no cost to the city. “Creating a more sustainable city has been a focus for Maryland Heights, so taking advantage of […]
Editor’s Note: This week Construction Forum Drone Pilot Louis Kelly of Drone Eagle LLC surveyed the site of “Lighthouse Point,” a proposed 67-acre, $325M mixed-use development on the Mississippi River in North County. The site is located at 11000 Riverview Drive near the new Saint Louis Zoo campus being built on the former Pipefitter’s complex. […]
From St. Louis Public Radio: Leaders from cities along the entire length of the Mississippi River and representatives from federal agencies are in St. Louis this week for a meeting of river communities. The 11th annual Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative meeting comes at a critical moment when a changing climate is ratcheting stress […]
From RiverBender: The U.S. Department of Labor awarded Madison County and the St. Louis region workforce innovation areas a four-year,$5.8 million grant to be a part of the Apprenticeship Building America program. “We are thrilled with this announcement from the Department of Labor to be able to launch the Gateway Registered Apprenticeship Programs Hub,” Employment […]
IWR North America, one of the longest standing building enclosure contractors in the U.S., has added Doug Hantak as a project manager. In his role at IWR, Hantak will assist in managing projects from sale to completion and monitoring the supply chain in the architectural metal segment. “Having an experienced project manager, like Doug, is […]
S. M. Wilson & Co. has completed the new $11.2 million R.P. Lumber Center in Edwardsville, Illinois. The state-of-the-art facility provides year-round ice skating, exercise and other recreational activities. The new facility answers the growing demand for “ice time” in the region for hockey, figure skating and recreational skate use. S. M. Wilson served as […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: Chabad of Chesterfield, an organization that serves as one of several local hubs for the Jewish community, will break ground Wednesday on a new center. The 15,000-square-foot building, to be built at 15310 Conway Road in Chesterfield, is a $5 million project to be funded by local donors. The organization, […]
From KSDK: South Central Avenue in Clayton will become home to hotel and condo sites as part of a development project that has a $100 million bottom line. A new AC Hotel by Marriott is on the way. The groundbreaking ceremony was set to take place at 10:30 Tuesday morning. The hotel will be erected […]
From Construction Dive: Dive Brief: Nonresidential contractor confidence rose in August and backlog held steady as builders shook off fears of a looming recession, according to Associated Builders and Contractors, despite evidence the Federal Reserve will need to escalate its war on inflation even more via ever higher interest rates. The ABC’s Construction Backlog Indicator, […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: Although workforce challenges in construction are hardly new, some in the industry report success with recruiting from different labor pools and thinking about workforce needs more holistically. A recent workforce survey conducted by the Associated General Contractors of America and Autodesk Inc.(Nasdaq: ADSK) found 93% of construction firms report having open […]
From ENRMidwest: Talk about a tight squeeze. The contractor for the $616-million Washington University School of Medicine’s new neuroscience research building in St. Louis was handed a big challenge: fitting the 11-story, 609,000-sq-ft building and parking garage into a relatively small space of 4 acres. And that wasn’t the only hurdle that McCarthy Building Cos. and […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: The manager of a consumer food giant’s north St. Louis factory said a new jobs program and incentive package played key roles in the company’s decision to move ahead with a $180 million expansion at the site. Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE:PG), based in Cincinnati, chose to expand its existing 17-acre […]
From Saint Louis Public Radio: It’s been nearly a year since Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the state’s landmark clean energy legislation into law, yet there hasn’t been much obvious progress toward some of its ambitious proposals. The law aims to both zero out carbon emissions by 2050 and ensure that areas overburdened by past pollution […]
by Ron Unterreiner, Founder, PEOPLE of Construction Editor’s note: “Opportunity Report” is a regular feature of ConstructForSTL.org — a column by PEOPLE of Construction Founder Ron Unterreiner that we’re calling “Opportunity Report”. Martin Luther King wrote, “The struggle for rights is, at bottom, a struggle for opportunities.” Dr. King noted that it does no good […]
Missouri high school students with an idea that improves their community are invited to enter S. M. Wilson’s 2nd annual SKILLED Awards competition. Sponsored in partnership with the Missouri School Board Association (MSBA) and the STL Works, the goal of the awards competition is to inspire the local community and provide an opportunity for the […]
An increasing number of high school women and men are finding that paid apprenticeships in the skilled trades which support the construction industry are leading to life-long, interesting, essential and well-paid work. Southern Illinois high school students can explore those paid, job-training apprenticeships at Construction Careers Expos set for Belleville and DuQuoin. Each student will […]
The UP Companies (UPCO) proudly announces the promotion of Paul Renaud to include the expansion of his duties to General Manager of all Square UP Builders’ operating divisions. Renaud was previously the General Manager of Square UP’s Drywall Division which was established in 2018. His scope of responsibility as GM will now also include Square […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: The city of St. Louis has an $11 million project in the works designed to “bridge the gap” between north St. Louis and downtown by revamping one of the major roads linking the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency campus to the Major League soccer stadium. The project to upgrade a 1.6-mile corridor […]
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