TCA Announces Call for Entries for 22nd Annual Achievement Awards Program

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MOUNT VERNON, Iowa — The Tilt-Up Concrete Association has announced the call for entries for the 22nd installment of the Tilt-Up Achievement Awards. Established by the TCA in 1992, the Tilt-Up Achievement Awards program honors projects that use site-cast Tilt-Up concrete to introduce new building types, advance industry technology and provide unique solutions to building programs. The winning entries illustrate the variety, beauty and flexibility of the Tilt-Up construction concept. “All projects submitted are incorporated into our ever expanding project database and become the cornerstone for the association's marketing efforts for the year ahead,” said Ed Sauter, executive director of … Read more

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Latest Analysis Shows Construction Employment Increases

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Construction employment rose in 28 states and the District of Columbia between January 2011 and January 2012, while 20 states lost construction jobs and two held steady—the best net positive showing for state construction employment since 2007, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of Labor Department data. Thirty-five states and D.C. added construction jobs between December 2011 and January, while 13 states had decreases for the month and two states had no change. “There is accumulating evidence that construction has passed its low point in a majority of states, although shrinking public construction will hold … Read more

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AGC Releases Latest Analysis of Construction Employment

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The construction industry lost 13,000 jobs between January and February, but continued a string of year-over-year job increases, according to an analysis of new federal employment data released by the Associated General Contractors of America. Association officials said that short-term factors such as weather contributed to the monthly loss even as longer-term trends are becoming a bit more positive. “Since many firms were able to either get an early start, or a late finish, to construction activity in December and January because of mild conditions, this month’s job decline is probably more of a seasonal correction than the start of … Read more

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Two ASSE Fall Protection Code Standards Approved

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DES PLAINES, Ill. — The American National Standards Institute has approved two American Society of Safety Engineers" standards addressing fall protection — the new ANSI/ASSE Z359.14-2012, Safety Requirements for Self-Retracting Devices for Personal Fall Arrest and Rescue Systems, and the revised ANSI/ASSE Z359.4-2012, Safety Requirements for Assisted-Rescue and Self-Rescue Systems, Subsystems and Components. The standards are part of the Z359 Fall Protection Code. The new Z359.14 standard establishes requirements for the performance, design, qualification testing, markings and instructions, inspections, maintenance and storage, and removal from service of self-retracting devices, including self-retracting lanyards, self-retracting lanyards with integral rescue capability and self-retracting … Read more

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Tocci Building Companies Breaks Ground on Cancer Pavilion at Marlborough Hospital

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BOSTON, Mass. — Tocci Building Companies announced Marlborough Hospital has broken ground on its new Cancer Pavilion. The facility is part of the UMass Memorial Health Care's Cancer Center of Excellence, and Tocci will partner with architect The S/L/A/M Collaborative (S/L/A/M). For the first time in Massachusetts, a healthcare project will be built using Integrated Project Delivery. Marlborough Hospital chose the team of Tocci and S/L/A/M for its experience using IPD, a contract form and design/construction process that fuses parties together in the spirit of ownership, collaboration and mutual responsibility for the project's success. The Cancer Pavilion will become the … Read more

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