Tue February 23, 2016
New Game From John Deere Lets You Play With G-Series Skid Steers and Compact Track Loader
Fans and customers can test their operator skills with the Small Machine vs. Big Jobs Challenge. This interactive game from John Deere Construction & Forestry features the new G-Series Skid Steers and Compact Track Loader....
Tue February 16, 2016
SC&R Foundation Video to Recruit Industry Employees
The SC&R Foundation has released a new five-minute, high-definition video to help member companies of the Specialized Carriers & Rigging Association (SC&RA) recruit employees to the industry. The video explains that, depending on factors such as background and experience, workers can earn annual salaries ranging from $40,000 to $200,000....
Tue February 09, 2016
Emerging Transportation Leaders to Convene at the International Conference
To provide emerging transportation leaders with leadership training geared specifically to the toll road industry, the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association (IBTTA) convenes its 2016 Leadership Academy, February 7 to 12, at the Washington Marriott Georgetown in Washington, D.C....
Thu February 04, 2016
Okla. Governor, Turnpike Authority Launch 'Driving Forward' Project
Gov. Mary Fallin and The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority (OTA) announced the launch of “Driving Forward: Investing in Oklahoma's Future,” an extensive expansion and improvement plan that will lay the groundwork for the future of turnpike transportation in Oklahoma....
Thu February 04, 2016
Program Created to Expose More Women to Construction Work
WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Stevie Medina might have felt as if she were building a new world. She may yet. The seat she occupied rumbled and jerked, as she worked the controls of a virtual excavator. "It does shake," she said, half-smiling as she maneuvered levers on either side of her chair....
Bob Christie - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thu January 28, 2016
On Second Thought . . .Cutting Funds For This Wasn't A Good Idea
PHOENIX (AP) Veto-proof majorities in both the Arizona House and Senate have signed on as sponsors of a bill repealing a $30 million cut to high school career and technical education programs. The cut enacted in the current year budget takes effect on July 1 and many of the 14 stand-alone districts that oversee the programs say they will be badly hurt if they lost the money....
Fri January 22, 2016
AEM Launches $150,000 Competition
The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) announced the Infrastructure Vision 2050 Challenge — a three-phased, crowd-sourced competition to award a total of $150,000 in prizes for innovative ideas to overhaul the crumbling infrastructure that Americans rely upon to move people, materials, products, services and information....
Wed October 21, 2015
Program Teaches Young Adults Industry, Fights Blight
DETROIT (AP) A group of young adults is learning about the construction trade and helping Detroit in its battle against neighborhood blight by boarding up vacant schools across the city. About 40 people in the city’s Opportunity Detroit Youth & Trades Board-Up Program have spent the summer securing doors and windows at 23 buildings, the Detroit Free Press reported....
Wed September 30, 2015
GUCA Scholarship Foundation Awards Members’ Children
The GUCA Scholarship Foundation announced the following scholarships awarded to GUCA members’ children. Recipients of the 2015 scholarships include categories of industry and high school. The GUCA Foundation Industry scholarship of $2,000 was presented to Christopher Blake Stalnaker, the son of Cheryl and Scott Stalnaker, John R....
GREG FORBES - Sioux City Journal - Wed September 23, 2015
Simulation Home Gives Students Real-Life Construction Skills
SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (AP) - The old adage ”Home is where you make it’ is being taken quite literally in a South Sioux City High School shop class. Members of Intro to Construction, Construction I and Advanced Construction have been assigned the task of building a modular simulation home from the ground up....
