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Demolition Contractors Ask for a Larger Role in Disaster Planning
04/03/13 By Scott Blair in San Diego
The 2011 Christchurch earthquake offers lessons on how recovery efforts can be streamlined

Photo courtesy of Ward Demolition Co.

Contracting Group Backs Romney for President at Annual Conference
03/05/12 By Scott Blair in Phoenix
The annual BizCon meeting rallied ABC members around key political objectives for “merit-shop” contractors

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05/15/13	Four Groups Unite to Promote Structural-Engineer Licensing By Nadine M. Post in Pittsburgh The four U.S. groups representing the interests of about 40,000 structural engineers have formed a coalition to advocate for structural-engineer licensing—a somewhat controversial subject among professional engineers.
01/18/13	Infrastructure Facing $1.1-Trillion Funding Gap in 2020, ASCE Says By Bruce Buckley Projected investment gap could cause significant harm to the economy and affect businesses and U.S. households, new report says.
10/10/12	WEFTEC Highlights Need for Innovative Breakthroughs By Pam Hunter Keynoter Lisa Jackson Says Engineering Expertise Key to Solving Global Water Challenges
10/10/12	Administration Shine Spotlight on Combined Heat and Power Technologies By Pam Hunter CHP should be incentivized and offers energy effiencies, they say
10/03/12	New WEF Chief Outlines Key Priorities By Pam Hunter Innovation, Reaching out to Global Community Top List
09/25/12	AIA, Commerce Slate Trade Mission to India By Tom Ichniowski Trip is first of three to be financed by federal grant to AIA, plus AIA's own funds, with aim of increasing U.S. design work in India, Sri Lanka.
09/18/12	CURT Event Talks up Risk-Taking, Value Creation By Luke Abaffy in Washington, D.C. Last week, construction industry players got together to network and talk about the future of the construction industry, at ENR and CURT’s Construction Owner’s Forum
06/11/12	Labor Rift Heats Up as Unions Slam Open-Shop Associated Builders and Contractors on Market Share Claims By Tony Illia Construction union leaders released a 165-page report on May 31 aimed at discrediting market penetration claims of their longtime open-shop nemesis, the Associated Builders and Contractors.
05/07/12	Building Trades Look To November By Bruce Buckley in Washington Sean McGarvey tackles new challenges in rise to the top with sudden death of President Mark Ayers and November elections.
03/20/12	2012 AGC Convention in Hawaii Touts Technology, Leadership and Collaborative Project Delivery By Mark Shaw AGC of America's annual convention, held March 13-17 in Honolulu, emphasized new technology and project management skills.
12/12/11	Small Business Issues Highlighted at Milcon Conference By Pam Hunter DOD Agencies say they exceed most small business targets, but firms still have concerns
11/21/11	Contractor Shake-Out Continues, as Does Wrangling Over Scopes of Coverage By Richard Korman Insurers, brokers and contractor risk managers assess the big picture and discuss the controversy in some states about whether liability policies will cover defects.
10/17/11	Frustrated Airport Officials Call Out Feds, Airlines By Aileen Cho in San Diego Airport advocates tell government: let us run airports like businesses.
10/10/11	Energy Dept. Moves Forward With Loans for Solar Projects By Pam Radtke Russell With just hours to go, DOE closed on four outstanding loan guarantees totaling $4.76 billion.
09/22/11	Public-Works Professionals Launch New Education Center By Mark Shaw The Donald C. Stone Center is named for the federal planner who founded APWA in 1937.
08/24/11	Green Building Council Wins One in Court By Pam Hunter U.S. Green Building Council wins legal battle.
05/18/11	AIA To Offer Cloud Service For Multitude of Documents Early next year, the American Institute of Architects plans to launch a cloud-based service that will enable users of its contracts and documents to search, edit, share and store the forms easily. AIA unveiled its Next Generation Service during its convention on May 12-14 in New Orleans. The program will be compatible with both Apple and PC formats and have security features similar to online banking, says Maan Hashem, AIA managing director for software products and services. All the institute’s 100-plus contracts will be made available.
05/13/11	IRS Delays 3% Withholding for One Year By Tom Ichniowski Construction industry groups have opposed the withholding mandate.

03/09/11 Communicating Risk Is Key to Hazard Mitigation
02/16/11 What’s Keeping International Firms Out of Brazil’s Infrastructure Market?
11/17/10 Nuclear Construction Rebirth Searches for Older Talent
11/05/10 After Elections, Workplace-Organizing Bill Faces Longer Odds
11/05/10 Environmentalists Say Goodbye, Prepare for Work With New Congress
10/06/10 Water Professionals Call For New Approach to Treatment
06/23/10 Variety of State Energy Codes Makes Compliance Daunting
06/16/10 Global Opportunities Grow for U.S. Architects
06/02/10 Virginia NAACP Targets Richmond
03/24/10 AGC Leaders Emphasize Collaboration, ‘Being Heard’
03/03/10 ABC Outlines a Job-Creation Plan
12/02/09 Owners Join Effort To Improve Industry Productivity
11/25/09 Don’t Panic—Get Strategic, Marketing Experts Say
11/18/09 China’s Heartland Draws Construction Group
11/11/09 Resource Stresses Probed
11/04/09 Civil Engineers Debate Future
10/07/09 CMAA Releases New Standard For Sustainability, Risk Control
09/16/09 Global Engineers Must Push Sustainability Now
09/09/09 Professional Society Presents Disaster Assessment Manual
08/12/09 CII Reveals Productivity Gains For Mechanical Trades
06/24/09 Revised Bridge Inspection, Loading Standards On Horizon
06/24/09 Council Will Push Funding, Outreach
06/24/09 Drinking-Water Association Calls for Infrastructure Bank
05/06/09 Model Contract for Integrated Project Delivery Is on Hot Seat
05/01/09 American Institute of Architects Releases New Contracts Documents
05/01/09 USBBC Rolls Out Updated Green Building Rating System
04/08/09 Obama Picks New Nominees For FHWA and Army Top Posts
04/02/09 Senate Aide Tapped for Top Army Civil Works Post
03/19/09 Senate Aide Tapped to Lead Bureau of Reclamation
03/11/09 Contractors Look for Details
02/25/09 Senate Confirms Embattled Labor Nominee
12/17/08 Experts Crafting Guidelines For Critical Infrastructure
11/19/08 Growing Owners Group Listens To Its Next Generation
11/12/08 Industry Awaiting New Team, Stimulus Plan
11/06/08 California Voters OK Transit, Hospitals, But Defeat Green Measures
11/05/08 2008 Elections: Democrats Face Tough Road Ahead
10/22/08 Industry Campaign Spending Is Shifting
08/13/08 Industry Gears Up for Presidential Race
08/13/08 IRS: New Proposal Allows Beneficial Tax Method
05/21/08 AIA Announces New ‘Integrated’ Standard to Mixed Reviews
05/15/08 AIA Issues New Docs for Integrated Delivery
09/19/07 New Standard Forms Seek Unity on Fairness
05/15/07 Deadline Looms for Pact Between AGC and 5 Unions
05/17/07 AGC Settles with 3 Northwest Unions
04/02/07 Stalled Immigration Reform Worries Contractors
07/11/07 New Integrated Project Delivery System Introduced by AIA