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Icon on Bond starts to rise
Date: Jun-23-2006
GRAND RAPIDS - The Icon on Bond development is quickly coming out of the ground, transforming a brownfield site that hosted an old foundry into a residential development that is...
Material price inflation
Date: Jun-23-2006
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The market for construction materials is way up compared to other types of goods - and they may stay higher. "Many materials are contributing to the increase,"...
News Briefs
Date: Jun-23-2006
Hurricane work hasn't led to boom So far, wrecked areas of the Gulf Coast have not been a construction worker magnet. More than nine months after the second of two...
Things are steaming up on NMU campus
Date: Jun-23-2006
MARQUETTE - Northern Michigan University's campus has grown slowly but surely every few years, with each new building placing an additional load on the campus' 40-year-old steam plant. As a...
'We know there's more to do…'Granholm promotes building Strategy; pipe trades endorse her
Date: Jun-23-2006
DETROIT - On the same day the first television ads supporting her candidacy hit the airwaves in Michigan on June 8, Gov. Jennifer Granholm made her first re-election campaign pitch...
Dormant for years, UA sparks up statewide apprenticeship contest
Date: Jun-09-2006
YPSILANTI - Michigan's plumbing and pipefitting unions re-started a dormant tradition this year: a statewide contest to determine the top apprentice in various fields of skill. This year's contest was...
Metro Hospital gets fresh start with advanced design, new location
Date: Jun-09-2006
WYOMING - It is rare these days for a health care organization to be able to start with a clean slate, and have the opportunity to get exactly what it...
'More supervisors!' expected to be NLRB anti-union battle cry
Date: Jun-09-2006
There hasn't been much news over the last two years concerning some critical labor law cases before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that could "deal a major setback to...
News Briefs
Date: Jun-09-2006
ENR ranks nation's top contractors The largest Michigan-based construction contractors generally held their position, or slipped somewhat, in an annual ranking of the nation's contractors based on year-to-year revenues. The...
Republicans kill pro-worker amendment to immigration bill
Date: Jun-09-2006
By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (PAI) - There are now two separate bills that have been adopted in the House and Snate that offer widely differing paths to...