Analysis by the Associated Press finds that funding from the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act has had little impact on construction unemployment. Industry associations rebut AP's claims.
Luther Cochrane, chairman and CEO of BE&K Building Group of Charlotte, N.C., thinks 2010 could be a case of the survival of the fittest for the Southeast's construction and design industry.
Gov. Charlie Crist (R.) signed into law new legislation funding a $1.2-billion commuter rail program. But a controversy over e-mails that's been called "Wafflegate" mars the recent achievement.
Firms working in the four-state region of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina will experience a mix of increasing challenges and rising opportunities during the coming year.
Despite the depressingly downbeat nature of 2009, the Southeast's construction and design industry still has plenty to be thankful for, including a possibly upbeat 2010.
On Friday, Nov. 6, Jason Rodriguez, a former employee of Jacksonville, Fla.-based engineering firm Reynolds, Smith & Hills allegedly shot five and killed a current employee at the firm's Orlando offices.
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) is opposed to government incentives packages. But that didn't stop him from approving a $450-million package aimed at landing Boeing's 787 Dreamliner assembly plant.
Boeing announced last week that it was going to build the second final assembly plant of its new 787 Dreamliner airplane not in Washington state, but instead in South Carolina.
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