A second ethane cracker in the vast Marcellus and Utica shale basins took a major step forward with the March 12 announcement that Thailand-based PTT Global Chemical and its new partner, South Korea-based Daelim Industrial Co. Ltd., have nearly secured 500 acres on the Ohio River in Belmont County, Ohio, for their planned petrochemical complex.
As multiple nor’easters bore down on the East Coast in the last 10 weeks, architects and engineers worried about more than the physical impact to their projects.
Trade war! What is it good for? Whether absolutely nothing or something else, construction will start to find out March 23 when a 25% tariff on imported steel and a 10% tariff on aluminum proposed on March 8 by President Donald Trump takes effect.
Driven by rising construction activity, an opinion survey of contractors, fleet managers, equipment dealers and rental shops is showing a generally positive outlook for the U.S. construction equipment market in the next year.
A third worker died while on the job at the sprawling, 21-mile-long I-4 Ultimate in Orlando. Michael Tolman, 56, an ironworker with Shelby Erectors, a project subcontractor, died March 8 after being struck.
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