From St. Louis Business Journal: The U.S. construction market is starting to shift in the wake of less work from the private sector and ramped-up spending in industries like infrastructure and manufacturing, bolstered by federal incentives. And while supply-chain issues and higher materials prices have normalized since the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, inflation, higher […]
From Construction Dive: Technology has definitely played a role in preconstruction’s increased prominence in the overall build process today. But many experts see behavioral and process swings spurred by the pandemic at the root of systemic change for the industry. “Of course I wish there was a tool that can get us all to where […]
CHICAGO — Dozens of counterfeit designer products with a suggested retail price of over $1 million were seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at O’Hare's International Mail Branch in Chicago. According to CBP, officers seized the shipment, which contained 67 pieces of counterfeit designer watches, bracelets, handbags and scarves as it was headed [...]
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) - A Peoria fire captain told a Peoria County jury that he and his partner had to do a "double take" when they found a woman's body in a fully engulfed house on Peoria's East bluff nearly two years ago. Capt. Frank Bivert, a 25-year veteran of the department, said he was [...]
Attorneys and advocates from Legal Services of Eastern Missouri (LSEM) are partnering with the St. Louis Public Library to hold clinic hours at Central Library from 9 a.m. to noon on the third Thursday of each month.
Celebrate the 150th birthday of Sergei Rachmaninoff with WCHOF Music Director Brian Woods and cellist Bjorn Ranheim! Featuring some of the composer's most virtuosic and passionate music, the duo will […]
From St. Louis Public Radio: As temperatures start to cool in September, it might be easy to forget the scorching heat of just a month before. In middle to late August, parts of the Midwest experienced a streak of “feels like” temperatures of more than 100 degrees Fahrenheit. In one 48-hour period, the Centers Disease […]
From FOX: For businesses looking to establish or expand their footprint in the Midwest, the St. Louis region might be an intriguing location for opportunity. REBusiness Online, a commercial real estate news network, highlights St. Louis in a new report and deems it an “attractive” industrial market for national and regional developers. The report comes […]
From RiverBender: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s School of Engineering (SOE) celebrated a classroom dedication recognizing the founding chair of the Department of Construction Luke Snell, PE. Snell, a leading lecturer and specialist on concrete, contributed $100,000 to the Department of Construction in the SOE. The dedication ceremony and unveiling took place Wednesday, Sept. 13 in […]
From Construction Dive: The world’s climate is changing more quickly than building codes are being updated, putting lives and structures at risk, according to panelists at the Building Innovation 2023 conference in Washington, D.C., last week. In fact, only about a third of the U.S. is covered by disaster-resistant codes, according to panelist Daniel Bass, […]
“They shy away from going to institutions where their students have to take out loans,” Ronné Turner, Wash U’s vice provost for admissions and financial aid, said.
From The Edwardsville Intelligencer: Eight months after the official groundbreaking for the new Caseyville Elementary School, the new learning facility is approximately 30% complete. As part of Construction Appreciation Week, sponsored in part by the Caseyville Public Library, Caseyville students thanked the construction workers with boxed lunches from Firehouse Subs on Thursday. In addition, many […]
As many as 21 students at Alton High School face disciplinary hearings on their future at the school after a series of fights broke out Aug. 30, causing the campus to go into a soft lockdown.
As has been noted here before, it’s often the worst people that generate the best case law. People staring down the barrel of several years in prison are extremely motivated to find any reason to have the evidence against them dismissed. People not faced with the same reality rarely find a reason to trouble the […]
St. Louis is among the few cities that don't regulate short-term rentals. That’s left the city’s Assessor Michael Dauphin to investigate units to see if they’re being operated as a business, or if they’re being controlled by absentee landlords or LLCs. City legislators are working on a bill that could change how people use platforms like Airbnb and Vrbo. Ward 4 Alderman Bret Narayan adds his insight on the challenge of regulating short-term rentals, and shares updates on the bill’s status.
From St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune: The concrete work at the new Florissant Archery Range at Sunset Park here is complete bringing it one step closer to opening to the public. The range is being built by volunteers of the Union Sportsmen’s Alliance and unions belonging to the St. Louis Building & Construction Trades Council. […]
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