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Construction manager proposed for roads office
Portage Daily Register
WYOCENA — With road construction season in full swing (if it ever warms up and stops raining), Columbia County Highway Commissioner Tom Lorfeld said now is the time to add a post to the highway department's management structure — a construction ...

Construction Crew Hits Gas Line In San Jose
CBS Local
SAN JOSE (CBS SF) –A third-party construction crew struck a gas line in San Jose Thursday afternoon, causing a gas leak, a PG&E spokeswoman said. The underground gas line was hit as the crew used a backhoe on Orchard Parkway between West ...

WXYZ
Construction to halt at Wayne County jail; cost estimates cited
Detroit Free Press
A 60-day suspension of construction on the $300-million Wayne County jail project will begin as early as Friday, county officials said today. Wayne County Chief of Staff June Lee told county commissioners today that county officials are not happy with ...
Report: Robert Ficano halts new Wayne County Jail construction in Detroit for ...MLive.com
Wayne County halts construction on new jail amidst massive cost overrunsMichigan Radio

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10News
Construction of desalination plant in Carlsbad to begin
10News
said MacLaggan, who also told 10News about 2,500 construction workers will build it, and when it opens, another 400 people will work at the plant. "It will be comparable to that of the bottled water in the store," MacLaggan added. The water will be ...

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Columbus Dispatch
Port Columbus not your usual construction zone
Columbus Dispatch
The challenge is “the coordination between the construction crews and all the airline tenants and the fact that we have operations going on here 20 hours a day,” said Shaun O'Donnell, a field coordinator with the Columbus Regional Airport Authority ...

Voice of America
Ethiopia: Halting Dam's Construction Unthinkable
Voice of America
ADDIS ABABA — Tensions between Egypt and Ethiopia are rising after Ethiopia began diverting the water of a Nile River tributary to build the continent's biggest hydroelectric power plant. Despite criticism from Egypt, Ethiopia says construction of the ...

Granite Construction Keeps Dividend at Lucky $0.13
Motley Fool
Construction materials specialist Granite Construction (NYSE: GVA ) announced yesterday its second-quarter dividend of $0.13 per share, the same rate it's paid since 2007. The board of directors said the quarterly dividend is payable on July 12 to the ...
Granite Construction Host Annual Shareholder Meeting; Webcast At 1:30 PM ETNASDAQ

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Head Of Philly Construction & Trades Council: Unions Alerted L&I About ...
KYW Newsradio
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Following a deadly building collapse in Center City, Pat Gillespie, the head of the Philadelphia Building and Construction Trades Council, told WPHT's Dom Giordano that the unions alerted L&I about the building before it fell ...

TZ in HD: Webcam firm will document bridge construction
The Journal News / Lohud.com
The site of the new Tappan Zee Bridge was bustling with activity on June 4, 2013 as a giant crane hoisting steel beams to workers tightening bolts on an emerging platform in the river. ( Carucha L. Meuse / The Journal News ) / Carucha L. Meuse/The ...

Music City Center construction head moves to West End Summit project
The Tennessean
Gary Schalmo, who served as project director for the joint venture Bell/Clark during its construction of the city's new convention center, announced Thursday he will be leaving its project team to lead the construction of West End Summit for developer ...

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Council of Europe: Stop settlement construction
Jerusalem Post
Construction in Jerusalem's Har Homa neighborhood Photo: REUTERS. Israel must stop settlement construction and release Palestinian parliamentarians from prison, the diplomatic body of the Council of Europe declared in a motion approved Thursday.

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Building The Capacity To Increase Net Zero Construction
Forbes
The net zero building movement (where buildings produce as much or more energy than they consume) remains a nascent phenomenon. As of this time last year, the New Buildings Institute – the organization that tracks such things – had recognized only 21 ...

Construction Continues On LGBT Affordable Housing Project
KYW Newsradio
Applause, hugs and smiles were plentiful as crews hoisted the construction panel signed by LGBT community leaders and politicians atop the six-story John C. Anderson Apartments building at 13th and Irving Streets. “People who have need for this kind of ...

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In The Pipeline: CoStar Development & Construction News for June 2 - 9
CoStar Group
The recovery in private nonresidential construction continued on a slow and steady track this spring according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau, with construction spending rising in April from the previous month's disappointing number.

Car hits hotel under construction
WIVB
WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. (WIVB) - A car crashed into a new hotel being built in Williamsville Wednesday night. Just after 6:30 p.m., a BMW went off the road at Main and South Forest Road and drove into the six-story hotel being constructed by Carl Paladino ...

Builders team with CSUN to train graduates savvy in construction
Los Angeles Daily News
Recent CSUN graduate Jose Sanchez just landed a choice job at Bernards construction located in San Fernando. Sanchez was one of nearly 100 students in the universityþà ôs Construction Management Program, which offers a building founding in ...

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Motorcycle Chase Ends in Construction Zone
NBC Southern California
A speeding motorcyclist led CHP officers on a pursuit from the Inland Empire, west through the San Gabriel Valley and up the 170 Freeway, where he jumped off his bike in a construction zone and was taken into custody. Raw video from June 5, 2013.

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Sales at Hable Construction, the Future Perfect and Others
New York Times
All in-stock pillows are 25 percent off at Hable Construction, through June 13 (a 14-by-18-inch Azul Waterfalls pillow, usually $65, is now about $49); the code SUMMER should be entered at check out, (817) 422-5313, hableconstruction.com. The Future ...

RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Afghan, Tajik, Turkmen Presidents Open New Railway Construction
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
By RFE/RL's Turkmen Service and RFE/RL's Tajik Service. June 05, 2013. ATAMYRAT, Turkmenistan -- The presidents of Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan have officially inaugurated the construction of a new railway connecting the three nations.
Turkmenistan launches construction of railway to Afghan borderAzerNews

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Construction spending rose 0.4% in April
USA TODAY
WASHINGTON (AP) — Spending on U.S. construction projects rose in April despite weakness in residential projects and government spending. Construction spending rose 0.4% in April, compared with March, when spending fell a revised 0.8%, the ...