finance & business news archive (2005)

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12/29/2005 With Low Bid $90 Million Too High, N.J. Rethinks Causeway Project

12/23/2005 Bush Signs 2-Year Terrorism Insurance Extension

12/23/2005 At 11th Hour, Kajima Snags Austin Assets from AECOM

12/19/2005 Congress Approves 2-Year Terrorism Insurance Extension

12/19/2005 Architects Name First Female Leader

12/19/2005 Austin Co. Assets Opened for Bids

12/13/2005 Will Another Bidder Seek Bankrupt Austin Co. Assets?

12/12/2005 Parsons Brinckerhoff Sues DOT over Award

12/12/2005 Small and Minority Firms Win Pieces of Levee Work

12/12/2005 Hill International Tries Novelty To Speed Plan To Go Public

12/08/2005 House Passes Terrorism Coverage Extension, but White House Is Opposed

12/05/2005 Big AMEC Unit Goes on Block

12/05/2005 Koch Industries Makes Offer for Georgia-Pacific

12/05/2005 North Carolina Firm Joins BSC

12/05/2005 Black & Veatch Acquires Virginia Consulting Firm

12/02/2005 Chicago Bridge & Iron Still Probing Possible Accounting Improprieties

11/28/2005 Unfinished Business On Congress' Table

11/28/2005 Two Charged in Iraq Conspiracy

11/28/2005 Execs Believe Managing Risk Is Their Biggest Challenge

11/28/2005 Sterling Plans Stock Offering While Pursuing Acquisitions

11/28/2005 Olympics Job Goes to Lemley

11/28/2005 AECOM Moves ‘Up Front’ With Link to Planning Firm

11/28/2005 CH2M Hill Acquires Ohio Water Treatment Firm

11/28/2005 New Chicago Program Provides Minority Opportunities

11/21/2005 Walbridge Aldinger Hires Staff of Austin Co. Unit

11/21/2005 Design-Build Risk Shifting Is Key to Success or Failure

11/21/2005 Global Oil and Gas Need $17 Trillion

11/21/2005 Bond Issues Offer New Hope For Infrastructure Investment

11/14/2005 On-and-off Davis-Bacon Rule Puzzles Some in Katrina-Land

11/07/2005 Jury Says Agency Liable in Bombing

11/07/2005 Investigators Find Wilma Damage Passes Expectations

11/07/2005 Global Corruption Foes Gaining Ground

11/02/2005 Florida Building Officials Commission Study of Panhandle Codes

10/31/2005 E&C Firms Enjoy Good Times But Sound Alarms on Future

10/31/2005 Bankruptcy Plan Followed Bad Job

10/24/2005 Contractor Group Tries To Halt Pennsylvania Best-Value Bids

10/17/2005 Williams Industries Posts 2005 Loss of $11.4 Million

10/17/2005 FEMA Explains Early Contracts After Director’s Senate Grilling

10/11/2005 Q & A with Odebrecht’s Road Man in Peru

10/10/2005 Urbanists Invade the Gulf Coast Suburbs

10/10/2005 Hard-Hit Areas Face Tough Questions

10/10/2005 Engineer's Non-Compete Clause Was Too Broad To Enforce

10/10/2005 Issue of Gross Negligence May Void Damage Waiver

10/03/2005 Bush Nominates White House Counsel to Supreme Court

10/03/2005 Former Maryland DOT Chief Named to Head GSA Public Buildings Office

10/03/2005 Baton Rouge Seeks Help For Its Boom Town Woes

10/03/2005 Swinerton Inc.'s CEO Dies at Age 62

09/30/2005 Conferees Agree on 2006 Homeland Security Spending Bill

09/27/2005 Dennis Washington Tops Forbes' Wealthiest Builders

09/22/2005 San Francisco Building Contractor Swinerton Inc. Loses Chairman Jim Gillette to Cancer at 62

09/26/2005 Owner Joins Design-Build Team in Australian System

09/20/2005 Prospering Pike Electric Terminates Chief Accounting Officer After Error

09/16/2005 Bush Approves Base Closure Plan, Sends List to Congress

09/05/2005 California Tackles Industry Initiatives

09/05/2005 Lots of Construction Ahead After Panel Trims List

08/22-29/2005 Marketers Seek‘C-Suite’ Presence

08/22-29/2005 Cash-Rich Rudolph and Sletten Sought Buyer and Found Perini

08/22-29/2005 Chief N.J. Builder To Depart Agency

08/25/2005 Base Closure Panel Adds South Dakota B-1 Base to Overrule List

08/19/2005 Jack Spencer, Former New Jersey School Construction Chief, Withdraws From Lower Manhattan Construction Position

08/19/2005 Johnson Named New Corps Deputy Chief; Bostick to Head Army Recruiting

08/15/2005 Perini to Buy Rudolph & Sletten, Creating Newest Megafirm

08/15/2005 Investigators Unravel Japan’s Largest Bid-Rigging Scheme

08/15/2005 TEA-21 DBE Plan Upheld, But State Use of Goals Barred

08/15/2005 Age Preference in Electrical Contract Violates State Law

08/15/2005 Owner Not Personally Liable for Debts

08/08/2005 New Jersey’s $8.6-Billion Building Fund Is at an End

08/01/2005 Seattle Streetcar ‘Green Light’ Cements District’s Rebirth

08/01/2005 Sources of Net Project Value Surprise CII Study Team

08/01/2005 Tripartite Initiative Remains on Track

07/25/2005 New Indictments Issued Over Sewer Kickback Scheme

07/21/2005 Bush Pick for Supreme Court has Business Experience

07/18/2005 Louisiana Road Rehab Hits Snag

07/18/2005 Changes Sought in How DOE Measures Contracting Success

07/18/2005 Ready-Mix Supplier Hit With $29-Million Price-Fixing Fine

07/11/2005 CEO's Guilty Plea Not Affecting Firm's Acitivity

07/11/2005 European Firm Picks Alabama for Airplane Manufacturing Plant

07/11/2005 Canadian Projects Fueled By Gas-Tax Share Revenue Deal

07/04/2005 Contractor’s Guilty Plea Includes $7.05-Million Penaltyn

07/01/2005 Guilty Plea Includes $7.05-Million Penalty

06/30/2005 Treasury Opposes Extending Terror Insurance Backstop, in Current Form

06/27/2005 Planning for Successful Global Project Development

06/27/2005 How Gilbane Has New Post for Satisfaction

06/27/2005 How To Buy Security Upgrades: Very Carefully

06/27/2005 Fixing Infrastructure Is Nation’s Top Task

06/24/2005 Supreme Court Allows Cities to Seize Homes for Development

06/22/2005 Kiferbaum Admits Guilt in Chicago Hospital Extortion

06/20/2005 Design Detail Responsibility Again at Issue in New York State

06/20/2005 Job Market Rebounds For the Class of 2005

06/20/2005 Framer's Death Not the Fault of General Contractor Or Owner

06/20/2005 Contractor Had Duty of Care To Office Workers at Jobsite

06/13/2005 San Francisco Contract Rules Have Construction in Turmoil

06/13/2005 Steel Not As Precious a Metal

06/10/2005 In Scottsdale, Schedule Experts Plan Standards

06/08/2005 Convicted Contractor Turned His Talents to CM Work

06/06/2005 Alliance’s Growth

05/30/2005 Justice Dept. Says Contracts Won’t Pass the Smell Test

05/30/2005 Guesswork Cut By New Method

05/23/2005 DOD, Industry Weigh Base Closure Impact

05/23/2005 Kiewealth: Payout Sets Stock Apart

05/23/2005 New Jersey Fixes Building Program

05/23/2005 Laborers Join Five Other Unions Seeking Reform of AFL-CIO

05/20/2005 Midwest Ethical Challenges: Kickback, Bid-Rigging Cases Abound

05/16/2005 Tribal Projects Bringing Wins and Losses

05/10/2005 Appeal to be Heard Over Portland's 'Big Pipe' Contractor Switch

05/10/2005 Kiewealth: Contracting Giant Delivers Value and Bonuses

05/09/2005 Prosecutor: Ready-Mix Supplier Pleads Guilty

05/09/2005 Litigation's Domain Covers All E-mail

05/02/2005 Revised Code May Force Construction Teams To Change Project Manuals

05/02/2005 Trades Form First Women’s Panel

05/02/2005 California’s Kleinfelder Extends Reach with East Coast Buy

05/02/2005 Dick Corp. Shuts Heavy Unit As Recovery Plan Takes Shape

04/25/2005 Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Acquisition

04/25/2005 Houston Retail Investment Still Remains Strong

04/25/2005 PBS&J Reports Missing Funds And Exit of Top Finance Officer

04/25/2005 U.S. Deal Helps Profitable Canadian Firm Add to Bottom Line

04/25/2005 Code Translated For Latin America

04/25/2005 Trades Declare War On Nonunion Training

04/18/2005 Designer Stantec Plans to Acquire Keith Cos.

04/18/2005 Carpenters Expand Drive For Wall Work to New York

04/18/2005 Parsons Buys RCI To Boost Markets

04/15/2005 House Approves Permanent Repeal of Estate Tax, Battle Moves to Senate

04/12/2005 Purchase of Firms Extends Parsons Reach into Northwest

04/12/2005 A Utility That Morphed Into Materials Powerhouse

04/11/2005 For a California Contractor, The Last Battle Is With Surety

04/11/2005 Oregon Officials Will Test Per-Mile Fuel Charge Concept

04/11/2005 Contractor's Defamation Claim To Be Tried

04/11/2005 Unhappy Client's Claim Barred By Malpractice Time Limit

04/11/2005 Ohio River Reopens After Corps Repairs McAlpine Cofferdam

04/05/2005 Carpenters Looking For Wall Finishing Work in N.Y.

04/04/2005 New York Times Building Steel Is AMEC’s in Pre-Auction Deal

04/04/2005 Judge Tells Local To Stay Off Walls

04/04/2005 American Work Boosts Hochtief Profits

04/04/2005 CH2M Hill, Washington Group Win $5 Billion in DOE Awards

04/01/2005 For Fresno Contractor, Two Disputes Spell Doom

03/28/2005 Court Ruling May Force AMEC To Bid for Times Project Steel

03/28/2005 Trade Barriers Stymie Global Demand for Capital Goods

03/28/2005 Education and Legislation Are 2005 Priorities for AGC

03/28/2005 Ellerbe Sues After Five Principals Jump to Rival HOK

03/21/2005 Construction Funds Drop, New Jersey Boosts Scrutiny

03/21/2005 HDR Acquires Risk Managemnt Firm

03/18/2005 Steel for Times Project Heads for Auction

03/17/2005 'Manfacturing Czar' Pledges Crackdown on China

03/17/2005 No End in Sight for Material Price Swings, Says AGC's Simonson

03/14/2005 Peering into Global Projects

03/14/2005 U.S. Civil Engineers are Harsh In Rating Conditions in Nation

03/14/2005 New Transport Bill Advances As State Planning Is Slowed

03/14/2005 Crayons to CAD Hopes to Lure Youngsters to Construction

03/14/2005 AFL-CIO Pushes Carpenters To Rejoin Or Risk Ouster from
Building Trades

03/08/2005 Will History Repeat Itself?

03/07/2005 Claims of $18.8 Million Keep Meadow Valley in Courthouses

03/07/2005 Vendor’s Rep Found to Be ‘Statutory Employee’ of Contractor

03/07/2005 Oregon Supreme Court Upholds Law’s ‘Additional Insureds’ Bans

03/04/2005 Calif. Interchange Contractor Returns to Work

02/28/2005 North Carolina Takes Big Step Toward Its First Toll Roads

02/28/2005 ABC Examines Its Roots, Plans Push for Health Care

02/28/2005 OSHA May Update Warning on Quick Excavator Attachments

02/28/2005 Focus on Engineer in ASCE Guidelines

02/28/2005 California Battles Safety Laggards

02/28/2005 Census Bureau Project Could Be Costly Job Cited By Skanska

02/23/2005 Failing Grade for Port Security Funding Program

02/21/2005 Distant Sound Signals Trouble In European Marketplace

02/21/2005 Probe Flushes Out State Sewer Mess

02/21/2005 AECOM Buys Offices, Use of Name from Design-Builder Austin

02/21/2005 Entry of New York Competitor Signals Building Market Shift

02/21/2005 Contract Pact and Cuts Hit DOE Cleanup Budget

02/16/2005 Chertoff Confirmed as New Homeland Security Secretary

02/15/2005 Fewer Law suits? Senate Takes Key Step Forward

02/14/2005 Contractor’s Default on Sales Contract Bars Recovery

02/14/2005 Contractor Must Use Contract Procedures To Pursue Claims

02/14/2005 Bush’s Big Squeeze Hits Construction

02/14/2005 Ex-Turner CEO Bob Fee Forms Competitor and Lures Staffers

02/14/2005 Skanska Dismisses U.S. Buildings Chief Healy over Losses

02/08/2005 Senate Panel Clears Homeland Security Nominee Chertoff

02/07/2005 12 Turner Execs Join Contractor's Former CEO in New Venture

02/07/2005 Bush 2006 Budget Tight on Spending, But Backs $284-Billion, 6-Year Transport Bill

02/07/2005 Iraq Managers Assess Future

02/04/2005 Skanska Dismisses Healy Over 2004 Project Losses

01/31/2005 State’s Ethics Battle With Feds Hits Bump

01/31/2005 Pittsburgh Arena Mop-Up Operations Now Include A Date With a Judge

01/31/2005 Skanska Loss of $98.6 Million Tied to British LNG Project

01/28/2005 Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Tutor In Subway Dispute

01/24/2005 Carpenters Fined Over Training Mix-up

01/24/2005 Spie Batignolles Seeks Probe In Nigerian Bribe Conspiracy

01/24/2005 Haskell Leads Push for Construction Index Overhaul

01/17/2005 Study Claims China’s Huge Steel Capacity Could Drive Prices Down

01/17/2005 California Contractors Fight for Funding

01/17/2005 Contractor Execs Can Expect Better Pay Raises in 2005

01/11/2005 Bush Picks Federal Judge Chertoff as Homeland Security Nominee

01/10/2005 Siemens Buys Shaw Group's Power Analysis Unit

01/3-10/2005 Sterling’s Unusual Succession Plan

01/3-10/2005 World Construction Spending Nears $4 Trillion for 2004

01/3-10/2005 Air Combat Command Scores, Borrowing Football Game Plan

01/06/2005 New House Homeland Security Panel Gains Wide 'Turf'

01/06/2005 Federal Trade Commission Order Will Split Chicago Bridge & Iron in Two

01/05/2005 House GOP Picks Lewis as New Appropriations Chairman