What a wild roller coaster ride we took in 2020. The year began amid a historic but softening U.S. economic expansion. Then COVID-19 struck. The descent was brutal. An earlier-than-forecast recession took hold, hitting the...
According to a report from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), Washington, D.C., builder confidence, while still strong, is down from a record high in November. “Ending a string of three successive months of...
According to a new report from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), Washington, D.C., sales of newly-built single-family homes fell 3.5% in September to 959,000, based on data from the U.S. Department of Housing...
Centuries of discovery, invention and science, achieved by countless generations of individuals with superior genius, great imagination or just plain luck, have advanced the electrical industry to where it is today. But...
When the White House issued a final rule designed to modernize and accelerate environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and similar reviews related to other policies related to building...
A new presidential executive order directs federal government agencies to take whatever actions necessary, including waiving environmental regulations, to streamline and expedite infrastructure projects to hasten the economic...
Electrical workers face outsized safety risks. While some 6% of Americans work on construction sites, 20% of work-related fatalities happen there, according to the 2018 Construction Chart Book from the Center for Constructing...
Bayhealth Hospital’s Sussex Campus opened its doors to patients in 2019 as the first newly constructed Delaware hospital in decades. The building rose over the course of several years in what had been a farm field. The $330...
A new study, “The Apprenticeship Alternative,” jointly researched and published by the Illinois Economic Policy Institute and the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana finds that those who graduate from registered joint...
If new home construction is a bellwether for electrical installations, then the road ahead is promising. According to a recent report, from the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Commerce Department, total housing starts are...
According to a new report by Dodge Data & Analytics, “First Half 2019 Commercial and Multifamily Construction Starts Show Varied Pattern by Top Metropolitan Areas,” while new construction starts in this sector in several of...
Heat waves and intense summer temperatures can be deadly, especially for those that work in physical jobs. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics'(BLS) most recent data, 38 workers died from exposure to temperature...
For electrical contractors seeking construction-related work, it is no secret that the industry is booming nationwide. However, according to a new report from GlobalData, Project Insight - Construction in Key U.S. States...
According to a new report from McKinsey & Co., a new trend in construction—modular construction—may completely change the way projects are designed and built and the role all the players in construction undertake during...
The Massachusetts Associated General Contractors (AGC) has a strong commitment to reducing opioid abuse. Mike O'Brien, Massachusetts AGC's chairman of the board and vice president of Gilbane Building Co. wrote in a message on...
It’s no secret that lighting and electrical technology changes faster than the flip of a switch. New building construction incorporates this new technology, but existing buildings miss out. A new report released in April by...
According to the latest report from Associated General Contractors of America (AGC), contractors are raising their construction prices as a result of tight labor market conditions and increases in the costs of many materials...
The nation’s leading tech giants have shown a penchant for forward-thinking ventures beyond their core business models. Companies like Google, Apple and Amazon have led by example on a number of popular digital and energy...
According to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the suicide rate among the working age population in the United States increased 34 percent between 2000–2016, from a rate of 12.9 per 100...
According to a new report from the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC), based on an analysis of new government data, construction spending hit a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1.329 trillion, and grew 5.5...
