Crane Industry Services Offers Virtual Training Courses

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Crane Industry Services, LLC is now offering custom virtual training courses in order to accommodate COVID-19 safety regulations. Converting OSHA- and ANSI-accredited courses from classroom instruction to a virtual environment ensures that training can continue. Virtual training courses include OSHA 10, Leading Safety Works, Site Safety for Construction Supervisors and Utility Supervisors, Use Load Charts Like A Pro and Crane Site Safety. “The impact of COVID-19 on training schedules throughout the heavy construction industry is unlike anything we have ever seen. Naturally, the demand for virtual training has skyrocketed. Offering virtual training classes allows us to do more for our … Read more

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Laura Skellie Named President of National Association of Women in Construction-Coastal Georgia Chapter

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Laura Skellie, superintendent at JE Dunn Construction, has been elected president of the Coastal Georgia Chapter of the National Association of Women in Construction. Prior to the president’s position, she served the chapter as a director and committee chair. A 10-year industry veteran, Skellie is the superintendent overseeing the renovation of Coastal Harbor Treatment Center located in Savannah, Georgia. Her employment history, prior to joining JE Dunn, includes work as a project engineer with a general contractor and an architectural designer at an architectural firm, both located in Birmingham, Alabama. In addition to her role at NAWIC, Skellie’s other community … Read more

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GCM Contracting Solutions Earns Tilt-Up Achievement Award for Gulf Star Marina

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GCM Contracting Solutions has been named Tilt-Up Achievement Award winner by the Tilt-Up Concrete Association on a recent project, Gulf Star Marina, located on Fort Myers Beach in Florida. For 30 years, this award has highlighted innovation, versatility and beauty in concrete tilt-wall design and construction on an international scale. In August 2020, GCM Contracting Solutions completed work on Gulf Star Marina, the world’s first fully automated marina. Since breaking ground, GCM overcame several obstacles on this build, including pouring and erecting concrete tilt-wall panels within the compact footprint of the facility and installing an automated storage system that is … Read more

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Monthly Construction Input Prices Rise in September, says ABC

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Construction input prices increased 1.6% in September compared to the previous month, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of Producer Price Index data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Nonresidential construction input prices rose 1.4% for the month. Among 11 subcategories, eight experienced monthly increases, with the largest increase registered in softwood lumber prices, which rose by 27.4%. The price of softwood lumber is up an astonishing 81.2% over the past year, a reflection of supply chain disruptions combined with the rapid expansion of single-family homebuilding. Natural gas prices were 12.1% higher than the previous month, … Read more

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1st Building in Denver Advantage Campus Framework Plan Welcomes Students

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The University of Denver, along with Saunders Construction, recently completed the Dimond Family Residential Village, the first-year residence hall on the DU Campus, which was delivered in time for the start of the fall quarter. The Dimond Family Residential Village is a 132,000-square-foot residence hall, and last month, the doors opened to students for move-in day. This is the first of three buildings scheduled to open this academic year under DU’s Denver Advantage Campus Framework Plan. The residential village has more than 250 rooms, which, at capacity, can house more than 500 students. Students are separated into cohorts, which has … Read more

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