Fri July 21, 2017
AGC Releases Latest Construction Employment Numbers by Sate
Forty-one states added construction jobs between June 2016 and June 2017 amid continuing widespread demand for construction services, while 25 states and the District of Columbia added construction jobs between May and June, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of Labor Department data released July 21....
Fri July 21, 2017
Fake Engineer Arrested While Bidding on $33M Construction Job
A Florida woman is facing charges for allegedly trying to win a $33 million construction project with a fake engineering degree. Janet Maria LeGrand, 46, was booked into the Miami-Dade County Jail on July 19 on a charge of organized scheme to defraud, according to an arrest report obtained by the Miami Herald. LeGrand is listed as the president/CEO of Bleu Network Inc., which was one of three bidders for a project to revitalize an area in Homestead, in south Florida....
Thu July 20, 2017
Hyundai Construction Equipment Adds Dealer in the Southeast
Hyundai Construction Equipment Americas announced July 19 the addition of Newman Tractor, Bartow, Fla., to its North American authorized dealer network. Newman Tractor now provides sales, rentals, service and parts to Hyundai customers throughout an extensive area of central Florida....
Adam Turner - Mon July 17, 2017
Construction of 8 Solar Parks Underway
By early 2018, Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) will have almost doubled its use of clean solar energy through the construction of eight new solar parks, including one in Hawthorne on the border of Alachua and Putnam county....
Mon July 17, 2017
GSE Demos Vacall AJV Recycler for Florida Municipality
On June 21 representatives of Great Southern Equipment Company (GSE), including Jared Wilson, environmental specialist, and Tommy Marks, vice president of sales (Orlando), met with city of Edgewater, Fla., municipal workers to demonstrate the features and benefits of a Vacall All Jet Vac (AJV)....
Fri July 14, 2017
Thompson Tractor Adds IROCK, Screen Machine Industries
On June 1, Thompson Tractor officially became an IROCK and Screen Machine Industries dealer of the entire state of Alabama and the panhandle of Florida. In order to facilitate this product line expansion, the company hired a materials industry expert, made a substantial initial investment in units for sale or rental and parts, and is actively engaged with both of the manufacturers for product and service training....
Fri July 14, 2017
ARTBA Recognizes Entrepreneur, Project of the Year at Conference
The I-595 Corridor Improvements Project in Florida and David Spector, director of the Colorado High Performance Transportation Enterprise (HPTE), have been recognized as models of excellence in innovative transportation financing by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA)....
Eric Olson - Mon June 19, 2017
Twenty-Five-Year Project to Safeguard Fla. Residents
The gigantic and complex task of rehabilitating the Herbert Hoover Dike around South Florida's Lake Okeechobee may take close to 25 years when it is finished, but the benefits of the work should ensure the safety of area residents for many decades after that....
Fri June 16, 2017
Travis Body & Trailer Adds Florida Utility Trailers Inc. to North American Dealer Network
Travis Body & Trailer, Houston, Texas, a manufacturer of aluminum end dump, bottom dump, transfer and specialty dump trailers and bodies, has added Florida Utility Trailers Inc. to its network in North America....
Mon June 12, 2017
Terrifying Accident Ends Well After Daring Rescue
A Sarasota construction worker survived a harrowing incident 15 floors up on the outside of a building when a line holding a scaffold he and another worker were standing on snapped, leaving him hanging in his harness for an hour on a dangling scaffold before a daring rescue lifted him to safety....
