Construction Unemployment Rates Improve in 38 States Year-Over-Year, ABC Says

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — November not seasonally adjusted construction unemployment rates were down in 38 states and the nation on a year-over-year basis, according to an analysis recently released by Associated Builders and Contractors. The rates for two states, Kansas and Texas, were unchanged from November 2015. The national NSA construction unemployment rate of 5.7 percent was down 0.5 percent from a year ago and unchanged from October, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This was the lowest national NSA November construction unemployment rate on record, matching the 5.7 percent rate in November 2005 and November 2000. Meanwhile, … Read more

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Ground is Broken on State-of-the-Art Integrated Sterile Processing Center

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Ground has been broken on a 39,000-square-foot sterile processing center in Omaha, Nebraska. Lendlease was selected in as the project’s developer. The sterile processing center is strategically situated just south from the Nebraska Medicine-Nebraska Medical Center campus. This new facility will allow the medical center to consolidate five smaller processing locations into a single center serving all of Nebraska Medicine’s surgical areas, which include the midtown Omaha campus, its hospital in Bellevue and its outpatient surgery center in West Omaha at Village Pointe.

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Mortenson Selected to Transform Science Building into State-of-the-Art Performing Arts Center

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CHICAGO, Ill. – Mortenson Construction is launching a major building project on the Wheaton College campus in Wheaton, Illinois, to create a state-of-the art performing arts center. In the $18 million first phase of the project, Mortenson is rebuilding the three stories and basement of a gutted 50,000-square-foot former science building into the new home for the school’s Conservatory of Music. The new Armerding Center for Music and the Arts, set to open in the fall of 2017, will include recording studios; a two-story,110-seat Recital Hall with green room; digital keyboard lab; chamber rehearsal and performance spaces; classrooms; practice rooms … Read more

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Over 30 States Add Construction Jobs Year Over Year November 2015, 2016

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Thirty-four states added construction jobs between November 2015 and November 2016 while construction employment increased in 29 states and the District of Columbia during the past month, according to an analysis of Labor Department data recently released by the Associated General Contractors of America. Association officials said even as firms in many starts are adding jobs amid growing residential and public sector construction investments, the number of states adding construction jobs for the year has declined compared to a year ago. “Most of the construction employment gains are coming as firms in many states work to keep pace with growing … Read more

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Brasfield & Gorrie Breaks Ground on New Office Tower Along Atlanta Beltline

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Brasfield & Gorrie recently joined developer New City Properties, as well as Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, City Council Member Kwanza Hall, Atlanta BeltLine Inc. and others to mark the start of work on the new 725 Ponce development in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. A 12-story mixed-use tower, 725 Ponce will feature Class A loft office space above an urban prototype Kroger and a three-level, below-grade parking deck. Designed with industrial character, the project will face Atlanta’s Beltline and will feature roof-top terraces with views of the Historic Fourth Ward Park, Ponce City Market and the Atlanta skyline.

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