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The price of construction materials rose 6.5 percent during the past year, pushed by the climbing price of diesel fuel, steel and copper, according to Ken Simonson, chief economist for the Associated General Contractors of America. The increases are impacting construction projects across the country, he said.
Pittsburgh Business Times, 5/2/08
The 109 respondents were "notably downbeat," said Ken Simonson, chief economist at the Associated General Contractors of America, who helped analyze the data from the latest installment of the 26-year-old [National Association for Business Economics] survey. He said reports of falling profit margins outnumbered reports of rising profit margins for the first time in five years.
Wall Street Journal, 4/21/08
AGC's chief executive officer, Stephen E. Sandherr, says, "The BIM Addendum addresses the absence of a standard contract document and helps guide construction professionals through the maze of new legal concerns raised by implementing new technology that has been an obstacle to embracing BIM."
Stephen E. Sandherr, Engineering News-Record, 3/31/08
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