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From West News Magazine:  Progress 64 West and YouthBridge Community Foundation of Greater St. Louis have announced the establishment of a scholarship fund that has the power to help high school seniors achieve their educational goals – The Progress 64 Entrepreneurial Scholarship Fund. The fund is the evolution of Progress 64 West’s existing scholarship program, […]

From Webster-Kirkwood Times:  Shrewsbury will create a master plan for its outdoor athletic courts thanks in part to grant funding. The Shrewsbury Board of Aldermen on Tuesday gave final approval to a measure that will see the city partner with SWT Design to conduct a needs assessment of its outdoor sports courts. According to Shrewsbury […]

From St. Louis Business Journal:  Gerard Craft’s Niche Food Group plans to open a new barbecue restaurant concept at City Foundry STL this fall. The new eatery, to be called Expat BBQ, will be a “well-traveled barbecue restaurant” that features flavors from around the world with American barbecue techniques, according to a Monday press release. […]

From St. Louis Post Dispatch:  The labor contract for a group of St. Louis-area construction workers expired this week after their union and an association of contractors failed to reach a new agreement in time. The contract between the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 513 and the Associated General Contractors of Missouri expired Monday, […]

From St. Louis Business Journal:  A Bridgeton-based company that provides logistics services for The Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) and several other clients is set to open a new 500,000-square-foot warehouse in early 2024. The expansion project is estimated to cost $40 million, said Don Davidson Jr., founder and CEO of Davidson Logistics. The new warehouse, […]

Spellman Brady & Co., a nationally recognized St. Louis-based interior design firm, is excited to announce the completion of the phase 2 renovation of the west wing of the Sverdrup Complex, home to Webster University’s School of Communications in St. Louis, Missouri. Spellman Brady (SBC) was responsible for specifying and procuring the project’s furniture. Main Interactive […]

by Tom Finan, Executive Director and Co-Founder, Construction Forum The impact of the failure of AGC of Missouri and Operating Engineers Local 513 to reach agreement before their labor contract expired on Monday (May 1) varied as work began on Tuesday. Two projects under construction by Holland Construction Services were cases in point. “At the […]

Developer Mia Rose Holdings (MRH) and design-build general contractor, Keystone Construction Company, have completed Chesterfield Sports Complex, St. Louis’ first world-class, indoor volleyball and basketball complex. The 97,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility is the largest in the region and was built to accommodate local, regional and premier national basketball, volleyball and other sporting events. In addition to […]

Poettker Construction Company is honored to be named a winning company of The Associated General Contractors of America’s 2023 National Construction Safety Excellence Award. Poettker Construction was awarded first place in the Building division for firms with 400,000 – 600,000 work hours. “To be recognized by the AGC for Poettker’s commitment to safety management over […]

Western Specialty Contractors – Kansas City Sheet Metal Division was given the task of modernizing the front entrance of its corporate headquarters in St. Louis, MO. Constructed in 1969, the brick building’s entrance consisted of white metal trim work around a set of double metal doors with a two-foot-wide, rust-colored vertical metal panel wrapping around the entrance’s cornice. A metal light […]

by John Gaal, EdD, director of worker wellness, Missouri Works Initiative Editor’s Note: Each week, Dr. John Gaal, director of worker wellness for the Missouri Works Initiative, a non-profit workforce formed by the Missouri AFL-CIO, collects and comments on news and trends in workforce wellness and life balance. Construction Forum will be carrying the Worker […]

From Area Development:  Businesses across the country, in communities large and small, have been challenged to find workers since well before the pandemic. As of November 2022, there were about four million more job openings than available workers, equal to about 1.7 open positions for every person looking for a job. To help employers with […]

From Contractor Magazine:  On April 28, President Biden proclaimed May 2023 as National Building Safety Month in the US and its territories, encouraging citizens, government agencies, businesses, non-profits, and other interested groups to join in activities that highlight building safety. Every May, the International Code Council observes Building Safety Month to raise awareness among individuals, families, and […]

From Building Design+Construction:  Artificial intelligence is causing a stir in most industries, and construction is no different. Using smartphones or pole-mounted cameras, a computer application can acquire important information from videos or images, and complete a task based on the information garnered. This technological solution is called computer vision. Whether a teenager applies filters on […]

From Builder:  When you walk into The National in downtown Dallas, there’s a greeting table for an upstairs restaurant that offers guests a glass of champagne to prep them for their 40-story ride to dinner. Keep walking, and you’re in the lobby of a luxury hotel. Jump in the elevators and head up a few […]

From Area Development:  The passage of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) bolstered an unprecedented opportunity for states and cities to invest in sustainable infrastructure that was introduced in the 2021 $2 trillion bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). Both acts, along with a new crop of related programs, include provisions to expand the […]

From St. Louis Public Radio:  The mayors of Cahokia Heights and East St. Louis have submitted a letter to the Army Corps of Engineers, asking for help to get funding to repair a drainage ditch that has a pivotal role in the cities’ long-standing flooding. The Harding Ditch, which runs from Madison County through many […]

From The Fabricator:  It’s a black art. I used to hear that a lot on fab shop tours—code for something that took years to learn and only the talented few truly mastered. Why, exactly? Sometimes it had to do with the nature of the skill and the worker’s tactile and visual experience welding a workpiece. If […]

From Contractor Magazine:  The U.S. Department of Labor has announced that its Occupational Safety and Health Administration has begun a National Emphasis Program to prevent falls, the leading cause of fatal workplace injuries and the violation the agency cites most frequently in construction industry inspections. The emphasis program will focus on reducing fall-related injuries and […]

From Forbes Advisor:  Choosing a career path can be daunting, especially when you factor in the cost of education. But you don’t always need to invest several years and thousands of dollars in a degree to secure a stable job. Skilled trades can make for stable, lucrative careers and often do not require a college […]