From Leader Publications: It’s not evident if you’re peering in on the riverfront at the former Doe Run Co. site in Herculaneum, but work continues to build a container-on-vessel port. “We’re still planning for it to open in the fourth quarter of 2025,” said Jim McNichols, executive director of the Port Authority. “I’m more hopeful […]
From Construction Superintendent:  Steve Williams is a second-generation S. M. Wilson & Co. superintendent who began his career working for his father, Larry Williams (44-year Wilson lead superintendent). With 42 years of construction experience, he’s worked in different superintendent capacities, with project superintendent as his most recent position. Williams is well-organized with the ability to plan […]
From St. Louis Public Radio: On the morning of July 26, the sound of dripping was the only sign that Alexis and Andre Rogers’ home would soon be inundated with water. Alexis Rogers, half asleep, thought someone had left a faucet on. When the dripping sound woke up her husband around 4 a.m., he thought […]
From St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune: Former Insulators Local 1 Business Manager Mike Walsh – a lion for his members and the St. Louis Labor Movement – passed away June 9 at age 78. Brother Walsh joined Insulators Local 1 as an apprentice in 1964 and worked in the field as a tradesman since the […]
From St. Louis Public Radio:Â Â A Breese, Illinois, contractor and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA, have come to a settlement in connection with a case involving trench cave-in protection rules. According to a press release from the U.S. Department of Labor, Groundworks Contracting Inc. of Breese was cited for not adhering to a city […]
From St. Louis Business Journal:  Ruth’s Chris Steak House — located downtown on the first floor of the Hyatt Regency at the Arch — has re-opened, following a $1 million investment that will make the restaurant better suited to a post-pandemic landscape, officials said. The restaurant was closed from June 15 through June 25, as it […]
From Belleville News-Democrat:  Officials from Belleville and St. Clair County voted Monday night to terminate the city’s involvement in their joint ownership of the Belle-Clair Fairgrounds & Expo Center. It was another step in the legal process of transferring the 22.5-acre property from private to public control. And the move gets the county closer to starting […]
From St. Louis Public Radio:  A trip from St. Louis to Chicago via Amtrak’s Lincoln Service will be about 15 minutes quicker starting this week due to track upgrades that allow for increased speeds. The Amtrak line ran its first 110 mph service on Monday, up from 90 mph previously, which would make the one-way trip […]
From Transport Topics: Illinois officials recently held a ceremony along Interstate 270 as construction started on a project with Missouri to replace the aging Chain of Rocks Bridge over the Mississippi River with twin bridges to help improve freight transportation. Gov. J.B. Pritzker said, “This isn’t just an investment for the Metro East region — […]
From St. Louis Business Journal:Â A city of St. Louis board voted Monday to advance projects in Forest Park and downtown’s Citygarden. Nonprofit Forest Park Forever and the city of St. Louis are working to improve waterways on the park’s eastern edge. Ted Spade, of SWT Design, said at a Monday meeting of the St. […]
From Rejournals:  Poettker Construction Company’s vice president of field operations Tom Albers has announced his retirement after 43 years. As one of Breese, Illinois-based Poettker’s first employees, along with the company’s founder Charles “Chuck” Poettker, Albers helped grow the business into one of the largest contracting firms in the country. Albers’ official retirement date is June […]
From St. Louis Public Radio: The Biden administration on Monday announced $42.45 billion to connect all Americans to high-speed broadband internet by the end of the decade, likening the ambitious goal to FDR’s New Deal-era rural electrification program that brought the then-modern technology to farms and rural areas across the United States. Missouri will receive […]
From Fox 2: A St. Louis County contractor accepted thousands of dollars in upfront payments for work he promised to complete, but never did. The Missouri Attorney General’s Office announced this Tuesday as part of a default judgement against John G. Adams and his company, A-1 Construction General Contractor, LLC. Adams is accused of falsely […]
by Tom Finan, Executive Director/Co-Founder, Construction Forum Earlier this year, President Biden made a personal appeal to Sean McGarvey, president of North America’s Building Trades (NABTU), to enlist the construction industry’s apprentice programs in leveraging Build Back Better funds to create inclusive employment opportunities, McGarvey said in a speech here Wednesday (June 28). “This country […]
From Construction Business Owner:Â Â While many companies make substantial investments in targeting and hiring undergraduate students, fewer consider graduate students due to a fundamental misconception about applicants who hold advanced degrees. By understanding this misconception, construction industry recruiters can open an additional pipeline for talent in the industry. The fundamental misconception is that all graduate students […]
From Ladue News: Great Rivers Greenway has built over 135 miles of greenways connecting the St. Louis area together, and they’re not stopping there. The public agency, which was founded in 2000 after a vote from people in St. Louis City, St. Louis County and St. Charles County to create a sales tax solely devoted […]
From Marketplace: There are more new homes being built in this country right now than there have been in a while. Housing starts grew by more than 21% from April to May, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. And they’re up almost 6% over this time last year. The number of new homes that were just […]
From St. Louis Business Journal:Â The largest community development program run by Legal Services of Eastern Missouri has opened an office in Old North St. Louis, filling a vacancy in a two-block area that was part of a major redevelopment 13 years ago. The program has changed its name from the Neighborhood Vacancy Initiative to […]
From Contractor’s Compass: I remember the first subcontract I ever read as a baby attorney. My exact thoughts were this thing is so bad you are better off burning it than trying to fix it. It was so one-sided in the general contractor’s favor that it would be easier to start from scratch than to […]
From Contractor: The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Chair Charlotte A. Burrows issued a report today titled, Building For The Future: Advancing Equal Employment Opportunity in the Construction Industry. The report provides findings and next steps based on the agency’s enforcement experience, witness testimony presented at the EEOC’s May 2021 hearing on discrimination and harassment in construction and other […]
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