St. LOUIS, Mo. — McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. has worked closely with Cape Girardeau Schools since 2009 to plan, design and build $42.5 million of improvements for the Cape Girardeau, Mo. School District. The completed program includes a total of 154,422 square feet of improvements for eight schools. The Richard D. Kinder Performance Hall at Central High School was the final project to be completed in this building program. The $7.3-million performance hall covers more than 23,000 square feet and has a combined floor-level and balcony seating capacity of more than 1,000.   Construction began November 2011 and completed in … Read more

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — On May 1 and 2, nearly 1,000 people will gather at the Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex for the National Craft Championships, an annual event that draws the construction industry’s top apprentices and trainees and pits them against each other over the course of two days. The young men and women who are competing in 13 different categories represent more than five million welders, pipefitters, electricians, millwrights and other craft professionals who are responsible for constructing and maintaining power plants, manufacturing facilities, roadways, bridges and dams across the United States.                 … Read more