ARLINGTON, Texas, Sept. 1 — Seven states now have laws on the books that require construction workers to complete the OSHA 10-hour construction safety training course before they can work on certain construction projects. The states with an OSHA law already in effect are Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New York, and most recently, Missouri. The state of Nevada OSHA training law becomes effective January 1st, 2010. Most of the state laws restrict the required training to workers on publicly funded construction sites, such as public roads and bridge construction projects and public school buildings. However, the state of … Read more

Turner Building Cost Index Projects a 2.03% Decline in The Third Quarter New York, N.Y. — August 25 —Turner Construction Company announced that the Third Quarter 2009 Turner Building Cost Index, which measures non-residential building construction costs in the United States, has decreased by 2.03% from the Second Quarter 2009. While construction costs have decreased by 10.77% since the beginning of the year, indicators show that that the decline is slowing in the Third Quarter. The Turner Building Cost Index number for Third Quarter 2009 is 820. Karl F. Almstead, the Turner vice president responsible for the Turner Building Cost … Read more

By Dave Dickinson The following article appeared in the Summer/Fall 2009 issue of Construction Superintendent: I should have known it was going to be a bad "techno" day when work started with my printer failing to print. I had been limping by on a nearly empty toner cartridge, removing the cartridge periodically to shake it before reinserting, using the last grains of black stuff to make just one more copy. A new toner sat nearby in its cardboard box, ready to be popped in. So there I was, in a decades old job trailer, running multimillion dollar projects with a … Read more