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Nicely built… in Michigan
Date: Mar-05-2010
The volume of construction work in Michigan has certainly declined – but not the quality of work. The Associated General Contractors of Michigan handed out their annual “Build Michigan Awards”...
Slow mo: Industry momentum hard to find
Date: Mar-05-2010
The value of new construction starts slipped 1% in January to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $419.3 billion, McGraw-Hill Construction reported on Feb. 19. The slight loss of momentum...
Stimulus money is construction’s one and only bright spot
Date: Mar-05-2010
The one-year anniversary of the federal economic stimulus program came and went last month, and while the U.S. construction industry has performed miserably during that time, apparently, things could have...
Apprentices donate blood to help Ashley
Date: Feb-19-2010
On Jan. 17, Ashley Yost, an apprentice member of United Association Plumbers, Steamfitters and HVACR Service Technicians Local 85, was critically injured in an accident in Midland County. She was...
Boilermakers open doors on new union hall/training center
Date: Feb-19-2010
ALLEN PARK – Boilermakers Local 169 celebrated the grand opening of their new union hall and apprenticeship school on Jan. 29 – and there was plenty of room to move...
Dip your tea bag in this: Let’s pattern reform after union construction model
Date: Feb-19-2010
For the better part of a year now, we have witnessed the beginnings of what many political experts believe to be is an influential populist uprising in America. Whether they...
Gun Lake Casino is topped out, too
Date: Feb-19-2010
BRADLEY, MI – Ironworkers Local 340 in conjunction with the Gun Lake Tribe of Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians conducted a beam signing and topping out ceremony on Jan. 28...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Feb-19-2010
Construction still a drag on growth Overall U.S. job growth continued to be undermined by the severe downturn affecting the construction industry as another 75,000 construction workers lost their jobs...
Norm Wood mourned; led Detroit Building Trades
Date: Feb-19-2010
Norm Wood, who served as secretary-treasurer of the Greater Detroit Building and Construction Trades Council and as Business Manager of Iron Workers Local 25, passed away on Wednesday, Feb. 10,...
Reach for the top…Steel’s up on new airport terminal
Date: Feb-19-2010
KALAMAZOO – The structural steel is in place at the new Kalamazoo/Battle Creek Airport terminal, marking a major waypoint on the construction of the new $38 million project. Iron workers...