Category: Featured
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DOL moves to repeal independent contractor rule
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The Department of Labor intends to rescind a 2024 rule on independent contractor classification, according to its regulatory agenda. The agency did not signal how it intends to change the rule under the Fair Labor…
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‘Build More NY’ Coalition Pushes to Reform Scaffold Law
Nearly 50 business and civic organizations today announced the formation of the Build More New York coalition to support jobs, construction and development across the state by reforming the outdated Scaffold Law. Build More New York is rallying around Rep. Nick Langworthy’s Infrastructure Expansion Act, which will preempt the Scaffold Law for federally funded projects…
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Ensuring Power Plant Readiness with VpCI® Preservation
Power plant chimneys spewing rust. Heat recovery steam generators (HRSGs) coughing out corrosion dust. Rusty replacement valves that cannot be installed. These are all signs of insufficient preservation leading to unexpected power plant downtime. With the price of lost revenue adding up quickly at an estimated several hundred thousand dollars an hour, an effective preservation…
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Construction planning booms, up 51% in 12 months
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The construction planning pipeline surged once more to close out the summer, an indicator contractors could see new projects break ground by late 2026. The Dodge Momentum Index, which tracks nonresidential projects entering the planning stages and…
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Virginia Tech, HITT coalition awards $280K in innovation grants
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The Coalition for Smart Construction, a combined entity between Virginia Tech and HITT Contracting that aims to help the construction industry advance via new technology, has announced the first recipients of the initiative’s seed grants…
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Virginia Tech, HITT coalition awards $280K in innovation grants
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The Coalition for Smart Construction, a combined entity between Virginia Tech and HITT Contracting that aims to help the construction industry advance via new technology, has announced the first recipients of the initiative’s seed grants…
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How one firm uses digital twins to develop large transportation infrastructure projects
Digital twins’ use in construction management goes back about a decade, but project leaders might not realize the many roles they can play. Bibhuti Aryal, Bentley Systems senior director of transportation, described in an interview with Smart Cities Dive how his infrastructure engineering software company has used them in big transportation infrastructure projects to help…
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F.H. Paschen Joins Valley View School District and Bolingbrook Families to Celebrate New Early Childhood Center
BOLINGBROOK, IL – Construction Company F.H. Paschen joined Valley View School District 365 and community leaders to celebrate the start of the 2025-2026 school year with the ribbon-cutting of the new Debbie Sykora Early Childhood Center on Friday, August 22. The new facility, located adjacent to the existing Oak View Elementary School in Bolingbrook, marks…
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Leader calls construction labor crisis a ‘national security issue’
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. WASHINGTON — Shovels cannot break ground if no one’s there to hold them. Industry leaders stressed that takeaway at the Elevate 2025 conference on Sept. 4 in Washington, D.C., where George Guszcza, president and CEO of the…
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New Training Option to Modernize Fall Protection Training
FallTech has launched FT-Xpert, a fall protection training program aimed at providing targeted, role-specific instruction for today’s workforce. The program addresses shortcomings of traditional courses, which often require all workers to complete lengthy training designed for supervisors. FT-Xpert offers flexible courses tailored to real-world job functions, from general Authorized Person training to advanced Competent Person…