- "Big, Bold" Infrastructure Plan
Assemblyman Guy Houston, speaking at a recent Associated General Contractors luncheon, said that a "big, bold vision" for improving California's crumbling infrastructure is the best way to win public support. Houston, R-Livermore, was the keynote speaker at the AGC East Bay District Holiday Luncheon held Dec. 7 at the Round ......
- CIT Forecast
The outlook for the Pacific region indicates that the area's construction industry leaders are very optimistic about their prospects for 2005, according to the results of the 29th annual CIT Construction Industry Forecast. The region includes Alaska, Oregon, Washington, California, and Hawaii. Similarly, the 2005 outlook for the Mountain region ......
- Editor's Report
It's always something. In the California construction industry, if it's not big increases in liability insurance rates, it's huge jumps in workers' comp premiums. If it's not a shortfall of tax dollars for transportation projects, it's a state fiscal crisis. Added to all this just now is the escalating raw ......
- ABC Honors Top Construction Projects
Honolulu, Hawaii— Associated Builders and Contractors recognized America's top 2003 construction projects through its Excellence in Construction awards program, with the awards presented during its 2004 national convention in Honolulu. "The projects we honor through the Excellence in Construction awards program represent the industry's best," said 2004 ABC national chair ......
- U.S. Postal Service. (Procurement
Watch).
The U.S. Postal Service is soliciting qualification statements from construction firms wishing to be placed on a list of prequalified design-build general contractors for construction of new or expanded postal facilities in Nevada Sierra District in Nevada and northern California. The buildings are expected to range from approximately 8,000 square ......
- Bid it and they will come: the Islands are witnessing
an influx of construction firms seeking a piece of the fast-growing
building industry.
In the 1970s, the Hawaiian Islands were awash in big ticket construction projects fueled by Mainland cash. Dozens of Mainland general contractors set up shop in the Aloha State to catch a piece of the soaring market. One of the most prominent among them was Swinerton Inc. The 116-year-old firm ......
- Survive, thrive, or take a dive?
(lookout).
Remember the great real estate depression of 1991? Commercial construction permits in California dropped to 25% of the previous year's level. In my area, there wasn't even one building permit issued in the type of work my company specialized in for 8 months! As a result, my construction company's annual ......