The Association of Equipment Manufacturers and the I Make America campaign announced the recipients of the first annual Pillar of the Industry award: Angus-Palm, Caterpillar Inc., International Construction Equipment and Stone Construction Equipment. The four companies were recognized for outstanding contributions to the people and communities of the equipment-manufacturing industry through extensive I Make America campaign activities. I Make America is a grassroots campaign that was launched one year ago to dramatically improve American manufacturing policies to create more jobs in the U.S. and keep the economy competitive with other countries. The campaign has enlisted the support of more than … Read more

NEW YORK — Turner Construction Company and Clark Builders have established a partnership that will increase the capacity of each company to provide construction services to clients in the Canadian marketplace. Clark Builders now has access to additional financial and management resources that will provide a platform for expanding its services. The partnership provides Turner with a 51-percent stake in Edmonton-based Clark which augments Turner’s current operations in Toronto and Vancouver, Canada. Established in 1974, Clark Builders is owned by employees of the company, who continue to hold 49 percent of its shares. Clark specializes in the construction of institutional, … Read more

The Forest County Potawatomi Tribe has completed a solar photovoltaic installation project in Milwaukee, Wis. funded in part with $2.6 million from the U.S. Department of Energy. The project is one of five Community Renewable Energy Deployment (CommRE) projects that received DOE funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and is the first to be completed. DOE’s CommRE projects help communities implement long-term renewable energy technologies, create jobs, and provide examples for replication by other local governments, campuses and small utilities. Located on the rooftop of the tribe’s administration building in Milwaukee, the solar energy system was installed by … Read more