Construction Industry News

ROCK HILL, S.C. (October 21, 2015) – Applied Machinery Sales (AMS-Merlo) has announced the launch of its newly designed website. This initiative affirms the company’s focus on its customers with a site specifically designed with the user experience in mind. 

PLEASANTON, Calif. (October 22, 2015) – IronPlanet is holding its fall Northeastern Cat Auction Services unreserved public auction in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Pennsylvania, on October 27, 2015. Cleveland Brothers is hosting the event, which is IronPlanet’s third major regional event on the Cat Auction Services Fall schedule.

This auction will deliver a large selection of late-model, low-hour equipment. Host Cleveland Brothers will be joined by Milton CAT as a featured seller.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 23, 2015) — The Equipment Leasing and Finance Association’s (ELFA) Monthly Leasing and Finance Index (MLFI-25), which reports economic activity from 25 companies representing a cross section of the $903 billion equipment finance sector, showed their overall new business volume for September was $8.4 billion, down 13 percent from new business volume in September 2014.

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. (Oct. 19, 2015) — There are plenty of processes a fleet manager can measure, but properly leveraging the resulting data to improve productivity is not always easy. That’s why several new sessions at The Work Truck Show 2016 will demonstrate how to best utilize fleet performance and maintenance metrics.

MISSOULA, Montana (October 16, 2015) — Sustainable Lumber Company has been awarded a $100,000 grant from Chase. The five-year-old company, led by Ryan Palma, supplies eco-friendly handcrafted hardwood flooring and pre-fabricated wall panels for residential, industrial and commercial applications with customers including Starbucks and Caesar Palace, Atlantic City. The company was chosen from among 35,000 applicants to receive one of just 20 Mission Main Street Grants from Chase.

ORLANDO, Fla. (October 14, 2015) — Asta Powerproject will showcase its BIM-enabled and mobile-ready software at BIM Forum in Orlando next week.

Building Information Modeling (BIM) digitally represents the physical and functional characteristics of a building in three dimensions (3-D) so that all contractors and owners are operating from the same information source and can more easily and visually spot potential construction issues earlier.

CHICAGO (October 14, 2015) — CNA announced the selection of SambaSafety as the newest member of its Allied Vendor Program.

YUMA, Ariz. (October 15, 2015) - The newest university EHS degree program to join ISHM’s Board Approved list is the Environmental & Safety Management Program from Pittsburg State University’s School of Construction in Pittsburg, Kansas.

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INTERNATIONAL (October 9, 2015) - Singapore Changi Airport is undergoing a multi-billion dollar expansion program. Part of the development is the construction of a new terminal, Terminal 4, which will open to the public in 2017. Changi Airport currently welcomes around 66 million passengers a year but the introduction of Terminal 4 will see that number boosted by around 16 million passengers a year.

BENICIA, Calif. (October 7, 2015) – Women seeking membership as apprentice ironworkers had a new opportunity to complete a pre-apprenticeship class with the University of Iron, the apprenticeship program of the Iron Workers District Council of the State of California and Vicinity. A total of 17 women graduated from the course on October 3, 2015.

Washington, D.C. (Oct. 7, 2015) - Investment in equipment and software is expected to grow 4.1 percent in 2015, according to the Q4 update to the 2015 Equipment Leasing & Finance U.S. Economic Outlook released today by the Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation. The Foundation lowered its forecast to 4.1 percent, down from 5 percent growth forecast in its Q3 Update to the 2015 Annual Outlook released in July.

ELBURN, Ill. (October 7, 2015) – Terramac held a successful exhibit at the record-breaking 2015 International Construction and Utility Equipment Exposition (ICUEE) in Louisville, Kentucky. The event took place September 29th – October 1st at the Kentucky Exposition Center and set a new record of over 18,000 registered attendees and 950 exhibitors.

PLEASANTON, Calif. (October 6, 2015) – IronPlanet announced that it has been selected by the Zachry-Odebrecht Parkway Builders to help manage and sell surplus equipment related to the SH99 Grand Parkway Project in Houston, Texas, as it gets closer to completion.

WENDELL, N.C. (October, 2, 2015) — KIOTI Tractor is excited to announce its latest promotion, the Power Through Tour. Along for the ride, is chart-topping country music star Trace Adkins. Adkins is partnering with KIOTI Tractor to give away his personal KIOTI DK65 with attached front-end loader and backhoe to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project.

NATIONAL (10/2/2015) - Nationally, the construction employment picture has continued to improve from last year. The not seasonally adjusted (NSA) construction unemployment rates for the country and 45 states were down in August on a year-over-year basis. For the first eight months of the year, construction added 113,000 seasonally adjusted (SA) jobs. At the same time, NSA jobs increased by 221,000 from August 2014 to August 2015.

MILWAUKEE (October 1, 2015) ICUEE 2015 has set a show record as the largest ever with more than 18,000 registered attendees, and surpassing the last show by 13 percent. ICUEE 2015 runs September 29 - October 1, at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, Kentucky.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 17, 2015) – According to a new study from Kyocera Communications Inc., non-rugged mobile devices fail more than three times as often as rugged devices in business environments, while rugged devices average 46 percent lower total cost of ownership.

CLEVELAND (September 30, 2015) – Representatives from Cuyahoga County, the city of Cleveland, Turner Construction Company, Hilton Worldwide, community leaders and other hotel project supporters celebrate the “topping out” of the $272 million Hilton Cleveland Downtown, scheduled to open in June 2016.

PALO ALTO, Calif. (September 29, 2015) - Accurate has inked an agreement with FM Distributing, North America's exclusive distributor of Neolith by TheSize. A green building material with a myriad of applications, Neolith has figured prominently in major commercial building and renovation projects. The working relationship between FM Distributing and Accurate has delivered tremendous benefits to both organizations.