TCA Announces Winners for 2014 Alphonse Engelman Safety Awards

MT. VERNON, IOWA — The Tilt-Up Concrete Association has announced the winners for the 2014 Alphonse Engelman Safety Awards. The TCA created the awards program in order to recognize the contractors in the industry committed to maintaining safe working environments on their jobsites. In 2007, this program was renamed “The Alphonse Engelman Safety Awards Program” in honor of past TCA president and champion of tilt-up construction safety, Al Engelman. Engelman helped introduce this industry awards program that now bears his name. The Alphonse Engelman Safety Awards program was developed to enhance the TCA's overall mission to improve the industry through … Read more

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Stalco Construction, Ehasz Giacalone Architects Complete Upgrades at NUMC Health Sciences Library

EAST MEADOW, N.Y. — Stalco Construction and Ehasz Giacalone Architects have completed a $700,000 renovation and upgrade of The Peter W. Addiego Health Sciences Library at the Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow, New York. According to Stalco Construction President Alan Nahmias, “The renovated two-story, 12,000-square-foot library features an improved layout, energy-efficient building systems and new interior finishes.   In addition to providing print, digital and online reference materials, the space serves as a meeting and lecture facility.” Located within a low-rise section of NUMC’s Dynamic Care Building, the Health Sciences Library is one of the largest on Long … Read more

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PCL Construction Honored with National DBIA Award for San Diego Airport Terminal 2

SAN DIEGO, Calif. —The Green Build Terminal Expansion at the San Diego International Airport,  one of PCL Construction’s  design-build project, has received  the Design-Build Institute of America, “National Award of Merit” in the Aviation category.  The awards program recognizes exemplary collaboration and integration in design-build project delivery, and honors the Turner/PCL/Flatiron Joint Venture’s outstanding achievement in building one of the region’s recent landmark projects. As the first design-build and largest project in the history of the San Diego International Airport, The Green Build is essential in supporting a nearly 100 percent anticipated increase in airport traffic over the next 20 … Read more

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PPM Construction Workers Don Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

SOCIETY HILL, S.C. — Roughly 140 of PPM’s, a subsidiary of EMCOR Group, Inc.,  construction workers at various jobsites are wearing EMCOR Pink Hard Hats throughout October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, as a “Call to Action” supporting breast cancer screening and awareness during EMCOR’s “Protect Yourself. Get Screened Today.” campaign. PPM-branded Pink Hard Hats will be seen by thousands of people as its employees work at scores of job locations throughout the state and beyond. PPM employees are joined by thousands of other EMCOR employees coast-to-coast who are also wearing Pink Hard Hats during the month at hundreds of work … Read more

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U.S. Construction Spending Reaches Highest Level Since 2008

PHOENIX, Ariz. — Rider Levett Bucknall, international property and construction consultants, reported that U.S. construction spending is at its highest level since 2008, although construction costs increased by 1.38 percent in the second quarter of 2014 (5.52 percent on an annualized basis). The firm published its findings in its newly released Third Quarter 2014 USA Construction Cost Report. Rider Levett Bucknall's research indicates that recent optimism about the construction industry has been heightened by the news that construction spending rebounded strongly in July, reaching its highest level in six years. Improvements were shown in both private and public construction investment … Read more

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