From Labor Tribune: Tile Setters Local 18’s Tile, Marble & Terrazzo Apprenticeship school was recently contacted by an estimator from one of their signatory contractors. A friend of his, Heather Edmiston, was involved in a car accident and is facing the possibility of being in a wheelchair indefinitely. Her father, Rick Edmiston, needed to make […]
From For Construction Pros: Drones help reduce unplanned costs and rework throughout a project by providing a steady stream of jobsite progress data. Drones – the aerial eye of the jobsite – have become a very versatile tool for earthmoving operations. Among the benefits, increasing efficiency, productivity, and accuracy on jobsites. In addition, drones help […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: As Memphis-based commercial real estate firm Development Services Group weighed whether to invest in downtown St. Louis by renovating the historic Butler Brothers building into apartments, the developer’s first look at the data behind that $140 million decision wasn’t very convincing. The high-level numbers, such as vacancy rates and growth projections, […]
From FOX2now: The City of St. Charles shut down its largest water well due to contamination on Monday. A spokesperson for the City of St. Charles said the Public Works Department closed the well in Elm Point Wellfield. The city has now shut down five of the seven wells. FOX 2 reported that when the city […]
From Call Newspapers: The Sunset Hills Bass Pro Shops currently under construction is expanding from its original proposal to include boat sales, rentals and servicing. The Sunset Hills Board of Aldermen approved a conditional use permit Nov. 8 for a change in use at the site at 3600 S. Lindbergh Blvd. for the yet-to-be-opened outdoor sporting […]
From For Construction Pros: Ballmann Earthworks owner/operator Jon Ballmann started his St. Louis, Missouri-area business in his 20s, and his rise to success was paved with great ideas that were also well-executed. Ballmann Earthworks owner/operator Jon Ballmann started his St. Louis, Missouri-area business in his 20s, and his rise to success was paved with great […]
A 23-year-old man was charged last week with leaving the scene of a crash in Dutchtown that left two people dead and sent three others to the hospital.
The legal saga over Nirvana's Nevermind cover artwork reportedly has a new chapter. According to Spin, Spencer Elden has filed an appeal after his lawsuit against the grunge rockers was dismissed…
While Bob Dylan's tours are Never Ending, catching a glimpse of the famed rocker offstage is something that rarely happens. You almost never see Dylan, for example, making a Starbucks run,…
Update: So we had this post about SF supervisors approving the killer robots in their initial vote, and had a note at the end that it still needed one more round of approvals by the Supervisors… and apparently widespread protests last night convinced the board to drop the proposal! The original (mostly obsolete) post is […]
iScanner turns your device into a powerful digital office and even more. It makes high quality scans of documents, educational materials, and to-do lists, and helps to edit, markup, and share them. The scanner app also can count similar objects and solve math problems and equations. Scan anything you need using your iPhone or iPad […]
Ask the experts from the Missouri Department of Transportation, St. Louis and St. Charles counties and St. Louis City your questions about highways and roads. The live chat starts at 1 p.m. on Wednesday.