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Miami-based Coastal Construction Awarded For Creating New Artificial Intelligence Tool That Saves Firms Ten-thousand Hours Of Work A Year

 

Coastal Construction Wins AGC/Autodesk Innovation Award for Developing Togal.AI, a Software Program that Uses AI and Machine Learning to Analyze Construction Drawings and Provide Quantity Reports

Purdue University Professor Named Top Educator Of 2023 In The Field Of Construction Education, According To National Trade Association

 

Associated General Contractors of America Names Bryan Hubbard of Purdue University as Outstanding Educator Top and Dr. Reza Akhavian of San Diego State University Received the Meritorious Award

Construction Input Prices Dip 0.1 Percent In March With Wide Variation Among Key Goods And Services, Adding To Uncertainty About Future Costs

Drop in Energy Costs Offsets Jump in Asphalt and Steel Prices as Double-Digit Annual Increases for Some Materials Persist; Association Officials Say Federal Rules are Making it Difficult to Source Some Materials

Construction Sector Sheds 9,000 Jobs In March As Low Unemployment Rates And High Number Of Job Openings Indicate A Lack Of Workers, Not Demand

 

Labor Shortages are Making it Harder for Firms to Replace Retiring Workers as Construction Officials Continue to Call for New Construction Education and Training Support and Immigration Reform Measures

Las Vegas-based Lester C. Snyder Of Brightline West To Serve As President Of The Associated General Contractors Of America

 

Encinitas, Calif-based Thomas Brown of Sierra Pacific West to Serve as Senior Vice President, Jackson, Miss.-based Todd Roberts of ERS to Serve as Vice President and Shea De Lutis of Clark Construction Group to Serve as Treasurer

Construction Employment Increases In 283 Of 358 Metro Areas From February 2022 To 2023 As Job Openings Show Need For Even More Workers

Dallas-Plano-Irving, Texas and Hanford-Corcoran, Calif. Experience Largest Number and Percentage of Gains; Lawton, Okla. and Sacramento—Roseville—Arden-Arcade, Calif. Have Most Extensive Construction Job Losses

Construction Employment Increases In 283 Of 358 Metro Areas From February 2022 To 2023 As Job Openings Show Need For Even More Workers

Dallas-Plano-Irving, Texas and Hanford-Corcoran, Calif. Experience Largest Number and Percentage of Gains; Lawton, Okla. and Sacramento—Roseville—Arden-Arcade, Calif. Have Most Extensive Construction Job Losses

Construction Spending Slips in February Despite Private Nonresidential Increases as Homebuilding and Public Construction Outlays Retreat

Construction Officials Urge Biden Administration to Focus on Progress When It Comes to New Federal Investments in Infrastructure, Semiconductor Plant and Green Energy Construction Projects