Washington, D.C. – Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) today reports that its Construction Backlog Indicator (CBI) for the first quarter of 2011 averaged…
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05.12.2011
Construction Materials Prices Rise 1.4 Percent in April
"The growth in materials prices has been outstripping the improvement in construction activity, which implies further downward pressure on industry profit margins." —ABC…
05.11.2011
Trimble Navigation Offers to Acquire All Shares in Building Information Modeling ("BIM") Leader Tekla Corporation
Sunnyvale, Calif. , May 9, 2011 — Trimble Navigation (Nasdaq: TRMB) Limited ("Trimble") today announced a public tender offer, to be made by…
05.09.2011
RETTEW Associates, Inc. and Rettew Flowback Inc. Open Offices in Pittsburgh
Lancaster, Pa. – RETTEW Associates, Inc. (RETTEW) and Rettew Flowback Inc. (RFI) today announced the opening of their Pittsburgh offices located at Twin…
05.09.2011
Geospatial PR Firm Receives ‘Exceptional’ Rating from GSA
Castle Rock, Colorado, 9 May 2011 – Corbley Communications Inc. has scored an ‘Exceptional’ rating from the U.S. Government for the administration of…
05.06.2011
Bowyer-Singleton Awarded Two Transportation Projects
SR 55 Econfina River Bridge Project Orlando, Fla. (May 5, 2011) – Bowyer-Singleton, one of Florida’s leading civil engineering and surveying firms, was…
05.06.2011
Construction Unemployment Dips to 17.8 percent in April
"There are a number of factors to explain the construction industry’s ongoing underperformance, including still disciplined lending standards, high vacancy rates, and skittishness…
05.04.2011
RETTEW Welcomes Blount, Hershey and Shiffler
Lancaster, Pa. — RETTEW, an Engineering News-Record top 500 design firm providing engineering, transportation, environmental consulting, planning and surveying services, recently welcomed new…
05.03.2011
Altus Positioning Systems Selects Rhodes Communications, Inc. as PR Firm
Norfolk, Va. – May 3, 2011 – Rhodes Communications, Inc., an international PR and marketing communications firm based in Norfolk, Va., today announced…
05.02.2011
Private Nonresidential Construction Spending Continues to Climb in March
"The expectation is that privately financed construction volumes will continue to rebound gradually into the summer." —ABC Chief Economist Anirban Basu.
