Vehicle maker Rivian plant project subs from China, Spain and Mexico used complex arrangement to avoid paying overtime wages, state attorney general says.
Unusually warm air led to a rare December windstorm across a wide region on Dec. 15. Construction sites were closed and power was interrupted for hundreds of thousands.
Rescue operations end and recovery begins after twisters, uncommon for this month, swept through the Ohio River Valley, collapsing an Illinois Amazon distribution facility and a Kentucky candle factory.
The participation of the Associated Builders and Contractors, which joined a seven-state lawsuit, is cited as a factor in the vaccine mandate injunction applying in all 50 states.
65 residents were evacuated Dec. 2 from a six-story building in Waukesha, Wis., due to structural issues the city said had made it unsafe for occupancy.
An Iowa landscaping contractor, already barred from state and federal projects, now stands accused of dodging upwards of $1 million in taxes.
Benton Harbor plans to seek bids in December for work to replace thousands of lead service lines.
Thousands of Deere workers with the UAW voted on Nov. 17 to end the monthlong strike that had disrupted the equipment manufacturer's operations at over a dozen facilities.
White House has clarified comment that it might consider partial shutdown of Enbridge oil and natural gas line under the straits of Mackinac.
Design-build team of Walsh, SOM and Murphy Group persevered through curveballs to recreate Chicago's Ellis Island as two hotels.
Order to Benton Harbor comes as city already is in process of replacing thousands of lead pipe water service lines
With negotiations at impasse over raises and pension benefits in a new contract, employees at the construction equipment manufacturer's U.S. facilities went on strike at midnight on Oct. 14.
A 100-ton hydraulic drill rig tipped over onto the street at the site of the Chicago Transit Authority's $2.1-billion Red/Purple line project. No injuries were reported and the cause of the incident is being investigated.
Automaker will build electric vehicle assembly and battery plant campus in Tennessee, plus a pair of battery factories in Kentucky.
The merger follows a trend of reorganizing smaller districts into larger regional councils.
Union-backed analysis of federal data says apprenticeships deliver similar compensation and social outcomes as four-year college degrees.
Heavy rains leading to a rather new phenomenon, static liquefaction of sand embankments, only previously observed in tailings dams led to property damage and flooding in central Michigan.
The drop indicates a slowdown in the construction recovery, ABC reports.
Construction events from across the greater midwest.
Product demos by startups, networking and venture capital panels brought back a familiar, if masked, sense of collegiality Sept. 1, for demo day of the BuiltWorlds Summit 2021 at Chicago's Westin River North.
Pandemic-related material delays continue to plague construction even as the labor shortage reaches pre-pandemic levels.
Locals hope the project will spur revitalization of communities on either side of the crossing.
The Senate-passed infrastructure bill includes $500 million to fund disaster mitigation fund created earlier this year.
City Dept. of Buildings says structure's foundation was compromised when the owner performed work in the basement.
Effort will explore recycling soils and fines back into cement binders for new concrete.
The union protests were ruled protected speech by the National Labor Relations Board last week.
Ohio utility FirstEnergy pleads guilty to bribery and fraud.
New study says that union construction projects are similar in cost to non-union projects because higher union labor costs are offset by savings in other project components such as materials and safety, but critics point to prevailing wage laws that may have skewed its findings.