Category: Featured
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QRStuff Makes City Notices and Park Schedules Scannable – CCR-Mag.com
In today’s fast-paced world, staying informed about local happenings is crucial. We’ve all felt the frustration of missing important city notices or community events, which is why it helps to easily create QR codes with QRStuff and make every notice, flyer, and schedule instantly scannable. By turning city updates and parks & rec timetables into…
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Construction launches on $152M Port Everglades bulkhead project
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Work has begun on the $152 million Port Everglades Bulkhead Replacement project in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, according to Sept. 11 news release from U.K.-based Mott MacDonald, which served as the designer on Phase 1 of the job. …
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Red Bull moves ahead with $1.7B factory after delay
Red Bull broke ground on a new $1.7 billion facility in Concord, North Carolina, following a four-year delay. The facility is a joint manufacturing and distribution center from Red Bull, packaging supplier Ball Corp., and Austrian beverage company Rauch Fruchtsäfte. It’s the second manufacturing plant for the companies in the U.S., and is meant to…
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Suicide prevention initiative reaches 188K construction workers
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Editor’s note: This story focuses on the topic of mental health and suicide. If you or someone you know is having suicidal thoughts, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988. Dive Brief: Hard Hat Courage, a…
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Amid hot data center market, Skanska grows advanced tech unit
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: As the high-tech and data center markets remain hot for builders, Skanska USA is expanding its advanced technology division, the firm announced Monday. Skanska Advanced Technology will now combine the contractor’s mission-critical infrastructure capabilities —…
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Crackdown on illegal working in construction
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More than twice the number of employers have been banned from sponsoring foreign workers in the first year of this government compared with the year before, according to new figures. Between July 2024 and June 2025, 1,948 licences allowing companies to bring in migrant workers were revoked – more than double the number in the…
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Trade bodies warn about unqualified contractors ahead of Awaab’s Law
“We are still seeing specifications being value engineered to the max and many construction trades being squeezed on price,” said Nathan Wood, BESA’s London and South East regional chair. “The result is that non-competent multi-trade outfits are undercutting professional ventilation installers and thermal insulation contractors. View the original article and our Inspiration here
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FAYAT Completes Deal, Fully Acquires LeeBoy
Three months ago, FAYAT, a family-owned global leader in construction equipment who reported $5.7 billion in revenue for 2024, shook the asphalt industry to the core with their planned acquisition of the Lincolnton, North Carolina, based manufacturer. When the news first broke, it was originally thought that the deal might not close until the end…
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Heat-conducting concrete helps connect windfarm to mainland
Civils contractor Charles Brand has used specialist heat-conducting concrete to support the landfall connection to the Inch Cape offshore windfarm on the east coast of Scotland. Underground power cables lose capacity as a result of rising temperatures. Using heat-conducting concrete as a bedding material and infill material at the landfall site prevents this by enhancing…
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Explainer: BREEAM V7 and how it raises the sustainability bar
Changes to the world’s leading system for assessing sustainability in the built environment aim to raise the bar even further. Mott MacDonald’s Selin Demirci takes a look at the changes brought in by BREEAM V7. Houghton Primary Care Centre in Sunderland was the first NHS healthcare building to achieve a BREEAM Outstanding rating at both…