ConDig (30-Jun-20). Leaders of the US house building industry are urging Congress to boost domestic lumber production from federal lands in the wake of elevated lumber prices due to deepening supply shortages. National Association of…
ConDig (23-Jun-21). Swedish developer and contractor Skanska has sold off its US multi-discipline design firm PCI Skanska Inc (PCIS) for $20 million. The Swedish-based multinational construction and development company said that PCIS, which is based…
ConDig (21-June-21). The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has fined a Bronx-based scaffolding company $300,370 after a 21-year-old laborer fell to his death during construction of a seven-story building in Brooklyn, New York. The…
ConDig (11-Jun–21) Civil contractor and construction materials producer Granite Construction has netted a $12 million contract to revamp a runway at San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport in central California. Under the deal, Granite will…
ConDig (09-Jun-21) A plan by the Biden administration to tackle the current bottleneck in critical supply chains will only fuel a deepening shortage of workers and fails to address soaring material costs, according to the…
ConDig (02-Jun-21). Building material shortages have reached record levels, with more than 90% of builders reporting a lack of appliances, framing lumber and oriented strand board (OSB), according to a May survey by the National…