Mittie Cannon, director of workforce development for Alabama-based contractor Robins & Morton, has a solution to attract more young women to construction as a career—draw in their mothers, too.
A collapsed flyover in Kolkata, India, has left at least 25 dead and around 100 injured on March 31, causing the state to come under scrutiny over safety standards.
Infrastructure investment is 20% to 30% higher than the previous government's budget, but some funding and other elements don't live up to 2015 campaign promises
In a move that appeared to happen faster than at least one Wall Street analyst predicted, Houston energy specialty contracting giant Quanta Services Inc. on March 14 said Chief Operating Officer Earl “Duke” Austin has succeeded James O’Neil as president and CEO.
The dollar value of total construction starts jumped 10% in February from the previous month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $667.6 billion, according to Dodge Data & Analytics.
The federal government has scrapped plans to auction offshore oil and gas drilling rights along the southeastern U.S. coast, instead focusing on selling new leases in the Arctic and Gulf of Mexico.