NEW YORK, N.Y. — New construction starts in December climbed 23 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $530.0 billion, according to McGraw-Hill Construction, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies. The sharp increase for total construction followed two months of lackluster activity, as several very large projects in December helped to lift the pace of contracting. By major sector, substantial gains in December were reported for nonresidential building and nonbuilding construction, while housing maintained the steady upward trend that's been present for much of the past year. For all of 2012, total construction starts grew 6 percent to $463.6 […]

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Reno Contracting recently announced it has installed a 2.6MW solar photovoltaic project at California State Prison Lancaster, Calif., for SunEdison, a worldwide solar energy services provider. The single-axis tracker PV project incorporates 9,500 panels. The Lancaster facility is one of five state prisons in Southern California that has added a combined 23MW of solar-generated power in 2012, an initiative undertaken by SunEdison and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. These solar projects should result in $55 million in energy cost savings over the next 20 years, according to the CDCR. Reno served as general contractor […]