This year, ICC's Building Safety Month will focus on five topic areas: preparing for natural disasters; training and education; clean and abundant water; construction professionals partnering with homeowners; and innovations in building safety.
The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (UBC) will hold more than 100 Days of Action events in the U.S. and Canada, April 13 – 15, to protest against construction industry tax fraud.
CopperTree Analytics Inc. and PCL Construction have announced that they have entered into a partnership agreement to deliver smart building technology to the construction and real estate markets. Get the details here.
Washington State Department of Labor & Industries pursues new reinforcing and post-tensioning standards proposed by the iron workers.
Isuzu Commercial Truck of America Inc. celebrates the 35th anniversary of Isuzu trucks in the United States. Read about Isuzu's heritage and highlights here.
After nearly a year of research and development of the Felling Trailers Inc.’s documented real-time torquing procedure, 100% of the company's safety-critical attachments, couplers, actuators and lug nuts are torqued and documented in real time.
The Dodge Momentum Index increased 0.5% in March to 145.5 (2000=100) from the revised February reading of 144.8. The March uptick was due to a 2.8%-increase in the commercial component of the Momentum Index, while the institutional component fell 3.0%. More details here.