On July 16, windfarm developer Vineyard Wind and the Southeastern Massachusetts Building Trades Council signed a landmark agreement that guarantees local union jobs on the Vineyard Wind 1 project. The parties describe it as...
In their quest to simplify the required paperwork for a fire alarm system installation, the Chapter 7 technical committee for documentation for the 2019 edition of the National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code appears to have...
On July 22, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Palo Alto, Calif., and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), Atlanta, announced the creation of an agreement in which both organizations will...
As more technologies become table stakes for contractors, the construction industry is becoming particularly keen on those leveraging artificial intelligence (A.I.) and machine learning, according to InEight Inc.’s Global...
According to a May 2021 report from the National Safety Council (NSC), the organization “cautiously supports” the CDC’s May 2021 recommendations that fully vaccinated individuals can relax safety protocols, such as mask...
According to a report from Dodge Data & Analytics, Hamilton, N.J., total construction starts lost 7% overall in June over May. In fact, all three major sectors (nonbuilding, nonresidential building and residential building)...
Electric vehicle (EV) sales are growing nationally, and the industry is getting plenty of help from government incentives to support this rapid acceleration. Nearly every state in the country has adopted some sort of...
The National Safety Council (NSC), Itasca, Ill., plans to extend its “Work to Zero” initiative. Launched with a grant from the Pittsburgh-based McElhattan Foundation in January 2019, the initiative focuses on educating...
Renewables are leading the way in new electric-generating capacity because of growing interest in environmental issues and the cost of renewables is decreasing at a faster rate than other forms of electric-generating capacity...
The fifth generation of high-speed cellular broadband connectivity, known simply as 5G, promises better access to networking and a proliferation of devices promoting the internet of things (loT). loT connections continue to...
