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• A super-majority of the Kansas City, MO, city council voted to void a memorandum of understanding with Edgemoor Infrastructure & Real Estate for the development of a new $1 billion terminal at Kansas City International Airport, casting doubt on the firm's future involvement with the project, according to The Kansas City Star.

Construction companies should brace for change.

The 30-plus-year drought since the last tax code overhaul may be finally over as Congress sets out to vote on and place a now-finalized tax bill on President Donald Trump's desk.

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• Information on a "life and fire safety hazard" at the sinking Millennium Tower in San Francisco was allegedly redacted from an assessment provided to residents in December 2016, according to NBC Bay Area,
• Palo Alto-based building consultants Allana Buick & Bers Inc.

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• New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie have committed to contributing a total of $3.65 billion toward construction of a $12.9 billion Hudson River rail tunnel between the two states, according to Reuters.

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• Information on a "life and fire safety hazard" at the sinking Millennium Tower in San Francisco was reportedly redacted from an assessment provided to residents in December 2016, according to NBC Bay Area.

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• Construction is underway on a $1 billion mixed-use project in Omaha, NE, that sets aside 20% of the development for public use and green space, according to The Architect's Newspaper.

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• The construction industry ought to see stability and more nonresidential spending in 2018, according to but should remain wary of how issues like rising construction costs could affect it, according to the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC).

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• Facebook announced it will build two massive data centers on its Prineville, OR, campus, adding to its previous $1 billion-plus investment there, according to The Oregonian.

Building information modeling (BIM) has been creating project efficiencies from the moment designers began using its earliest renditions in the 1980s. Since then, the technology has been used in the design and construction of buildings, bridges and many other structures.

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• House and Senate Republicans said they have reached an agreement on a final tax reform bill and expect final votes to come as early as next week, according to The New York Times.

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• The Mountain View (CA) City Council has approved the master plan for a high-density residential and office development near the site of Google's new Charleston East campus, according to The Mercury News.

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• House and Senate Republicans said they have reached an agreement on a final tax reform bill and expect final votes to come as early as next week, according to The New York Times.

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• Dodge Data & Analytics' newest SmartMarketReport, Safety Management in the Construction Industry, shows that technology, including BIM, drones and wearables, is having a positive effect onsite in regards to improving safety.

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• Philadelphia-based AeroAggregates LLC is taking post-consumer mixed-glass waste and recycling it into foamed glass aggregate, which is similar to crushed rock, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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• Tech giant NVIDIA is joining forces with construction equipment-maker Komatsu to add drones and artificial intelligence to the jobsite, according to NVIDIA.

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• A recent International Data Corp. forecast projects that spending on augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR, respectively) will grow from $9.1 billion this year to $17.8 billion in 2018, reports The Journal.

Smartphones have morphed into mini computers many consider necessary to organize their lives and get through their days. According to a recent Pew Research Center study, 77% of cell phone owners have smartphones.

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• Los Angeles developer CIM Group is planning a 27-acre "mini-city" for downtown Atlanta, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, a project that will be the largest area development since the 1960s.

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• The Associated Builders and Contractors' third-quarter 2017 Construction Backlog Indicator (CBI) reading rose 9.8% from the second quarter to 9.45 months, the longest recorded backlog of nonresidential projects in the history of the CBI.

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• A Brooklyn, NY, contractor agreed to pay $625,000 in order to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) discrimination lawsuit, according to the New York Daily News.

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• Construction material prices rose 0.7% from October to November, marking a 5.6% year-over-year increase and representing the largest hike since November 2011, according to the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC).

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• The Associated Builders and Contractors' third-quarter 2017 Construction Backlog Indicator (CBI) reading rose 9.8% from the second quarter to 9.45 months, the longest recorded backlog of nonresidential projects in the history of the CBI.

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• A Brooklyn, NY, contractor agreed to pay $625,000 in order to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) discrimination lawsuit, according to the New York Daily News.

For the Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant in Saginaw, Michigan, sustainability is built into their facility from top to bottom.

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• The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) has selected three firms to bid on the first phase of the agency's $2.1 billion Red and Purple Modernization (RPM) rail initiative, according to Railway Technology, and will now issue them draft request for proposals.

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• California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) officials say they are exploring the possibility of taxing drivers by miles traveled to help generate road construction revenue, according to The Sacramento Bee.

Construction contracts greatly determine how a project is going to play out, whether the agreements are between owners and general columbus oh excavation company or subcontractors and general contractors.

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• States that raise taxes, according to unnamed White House aides, or come up with other new sources of revenue to pay for infrastructure projects will be eligible to compete for additional federal funding, according to The Mercury News.

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• The Dodge Momentum Index saw its second-straight month-over-month increase in November, rising 13.9% to a mark of 149.5 from a revised October reading of 131.3, according to Dodge Data & Analytics.

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• The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will spend more than $1 billion on regional airports next year, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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• Cyrus R. Vance Jr., Manhattan district attorney, announced last week that he and officials in surrounding New York counties have charged area construction companies and their owners with stealing more than $2.5 million in wages from more than 400 construction workers, according to The New York Times.

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• A 23-acre development in far North Dallas will include two office towers totaling up to 1 million square feet, retail space and cinema, among other uses, replacing a shuttered Sears department store, reports Dallas News.

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• The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has fined a Connecticut contractor $329,548 and issued the columbus oh aggregate supply company two willful and six serious violations for exposing workers on a Concord, NH, project site to mercury and respirator hazards, according to an agency press release.

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• A recent RAND Corp. report contradicts much of the conventional wisdom about the state of the nation's infrastructure, according to Route Fifty.

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• A New York City developer says it will file for an exemption from a new zoning amendment that would kill the company's plans to build a nearly 799-foot residential tower along the East River in Manhattan, according to Bloomberg.

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• The Boring Company, brainchild of Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, has released a map of planned tunnels in Los Angeles where Musk would like to develop an underground transportation system, Quartz reported.

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• The New York Paid Family Leave Law (PFLL) will go into effect Jan. 1, making employees of private New York-based construction companies eligible for paid family leave, according to Construction Law Zone.

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• A recent RAND Corp. report contradicts much of the conventional wisdom about the state of the nation's infrastructure, according to Route Fifty.

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• Ohio company, New Steel International, is reportedly planning to build a $6B automotive steel plant near Flint, MI, according to MLive.

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• Denmark-based design firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has revealed its plans for East Austin District, a sports and entertainment complex in Texas that will feature a 15,000-seat arena and 40,000-seat outdoor stadium, according to Designboom.

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• Denmark-based design firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has revealed its plans for East Austin District, a sports and entertainment complex in Texas that will feature a 15,000-seat arena and 40,000-seat outdoor stadium, according to Designboom.

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• Denver officials hope to get started with construction early next year on the $1 billion National Western Center by issuing the project's first contracts, including one worth an estimated $250 million for site and road work, according to The Denver Post.

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• Harris County, TX, has enacted a set of new construction regulations for columbus oh dump truck company in flood zones, according to the Associated Press, following Hurricane Harvey's widespread damage to the area in late August.

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• Gramazio Kohler Research is developing robots designed to perform different construction tasks with various materials, according to Architect Magazine.

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• The California Energy Commission has awarded a $1.25 million grant to RCAM Technologies to develop and test 3-D printing technology so concrete turbine towers can be constructed onsite, reported Greentech Media.

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• Architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) and Oregon State University released two new studies Monday evaluating a mass-timber composite and a cross-laminated timber (CLT) and concrete floor system that could be supported by structural steel, Architect Magazine reported.

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• McLaren Greater Lansing, a subsidiary of Michigan-based McLaren Health Care, announced Monday that it plans to consolidate two of its facilities into one $450 million, nine-story hospital near Michigan State University (MSU), according to the Lansing State Journal.

Technology provides great tools for designing a new home or renovated space and even viewing it in a virtual environment, but there is still a big question left on the table: At the end of the day, how much is it going to cost to build? 

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• The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is considering a November appeal from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to reverse a Texas administrative law judge's decision to invalidate a long-standing agency practice of holding multiple employers responsible for one company's violations if deemed appropriate, according to JD Supra.

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• Los Angeles County Metro officials broke ground Saturday on the $1.5 billion, 12.3-mile Foothill Gold line light rail extension, according to SF Gate.

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• General contractor Kiewit has said it expects repair columbus oh dump truck company on the second phase of California's Oroville Dam to be more difficult than its first, according to The Mercury News.

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• Ohio State University (OSU) is soliciting design requests for a hospital tower addition with 840 private-room beds to its Wexner Medical Center.

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• Elon Musk has announced that his Boring Company business will compete to finance and build an express transit system from downtown Chicago to O'Hare International Airport, according to Reuters.

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• California columbus oh excavation company acting as direct columbus oh excavation company on private construction projects will be financially responsible for any wages, fringe benefits and union contributions left unpaid by subcontractors and their sub-tiers, per a new law signed by Gov.

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• Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert's development columbus oh aggregate supply company has pushed back the groundbreaking date by two weeks for what will be Detroit's tallest building, according to the Detroit Free Press.

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• San Diego State University (SDSU) has revealed its $3 billion, 15-year "SDSU Mission Valley" initiative, which will see the redevelopment of a Mission Valley-area stadium site — once home to the former San Diego Chargers — near its main campus, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune.

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• Software giant Microsoft is getting ready to launch a major redevelopment of its 500-acre Redmond, WA, headquarters in an initiative that is expected to cost billions of dollars, TechCrunch reported.

It's a scene that is fresh in the minds of those who lived through this year's U.S. hurricane season or who could monitor the damage from afar — darkness from mass power outages.

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• Downtown Minneapolis is in store for $2 billion in total public and private development and construction investments by 2025, all a part of its transformative Big Build initiative, according to Curbed.

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• Minneapolis-area columbus oh excavation company and designers are claiming that a Metropolitan Council decision to ban 36 companies from bidding on the $1.9 billion Southwest LRT is unfair and will drive prices for the project higher, according to Engineering News-Record.

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• Taiwan-based electronics columbus oh aggregate supply company Foxconn Technology Group is scheduled to deliver on Dec. 1 the first substantive site plan details for the initial phase of its $10 billion Mt.

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• Autodesk has made plans to eliminate 13% of its workforce — 1,150 positions total — according to Fortune.

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• Denmark-based 3-D printing columbus oh aggregate supply company Printhuset successfully completed Europe's first 3-D printed building, according to 3D Printing Industry.

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• Autodesk has made plans to eliminate 13% of its workforce — 1,150 positions total — according to Fortune.

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• In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, the need for construction professionals to rebuild Texas’ devastated commercial and residential properties has created a skills-gap the size of, well, Texas.

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• The owners of a racetrack, gaming and event center southwest of Minneapolis, have revealed plans for a $400 million "live-stay-work-play" redevelopment adjacent to their existing operations, according to the Shakopee Valley News.

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• Developer Sterling Bay has announced plans to build a 20,000-seat soccer stadium on the site of its intended $10 billion Chicago waterfront mixed-use development, according to the Chicago Tribune.

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• The Iowa Department of Transportation (IDOT) reports that 10 people have died this year in state work-zone accidents, according to the Clinton Herald.

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• Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has come out against the Trump administration's reported proposal to raise the federal gas tax by seven cents as a way of helping to pay for a $1 trillion national program of infrastructure upgrades and repairs, according to the Daily Beast.

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• After the announcement that it would be building a second North American headquarters, online retail giant Amazon snagged 238 bids for its "HQ2" and tax incentives of up to $7 billion, according to Business Insider.

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While things got off to a slow start, the new administration is beginning to make good on its promises to rescind and revise various wage and hour requirements for employers.

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• After a county circuit judge dismissed a lawsuit that could have blocked the deal, the Detroit City Council has voted to authorize a $520 million land swap that would see Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert develop the current site of a stalled jail project and the county build a new jail complex elsewhere, according to the Detroit Free Press.

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• Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) has revealed the master plan for its new $1.3 billion pediatric medical campus in Brookhaven, GA, for what will be the most expensive facility built in the state's history.

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• All segments of the Iowa Department of Transportation's (IDOT) new $1.2 billion I-74 bridge over the Mississippi River are either on or ahead of schedule, according to the Quad-City Times.

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• Nearly three-quarters (72%) of U.S. construction executives say the industry is not functioning at a rate of productivity suitable for infrastructure projects, according to a report from KPMG.

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• Although many construction companies acknowledge that apps and data can be helpful for safety training, only 26% use software or a mobile app, according to JBKnowledge data cited by Business Insurance.

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• The Atlanta City Council unanimously passed infrastructure regulations to boost the spread of electric vehicles (EV), according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

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• The value of October construction starts dropped 9% from September to a seasonally adjusted rate of $742.9 billion, according to Dodge Data & Analytics.

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• Five construction workers on the $64 billion California high-speed rail project were injured on the job Saturday, according to ABC 30.

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• Real residential and nonresidential construction investment, adjusted for inflation, was 6.2% of U.S. gross domestic product in 2016, according to the Associated Builders and Contractors, a part of the industry's seven-year economic contribution high.

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This time last year, we were proven wrong.

The emergency injunction request filed by employer groups and 21 states in October 2016, seven weeks before the FLSA overtime rule’s implementation date, was seen as a last-ditch effort by desperate players in an OT game.

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• October apartment construction reached the fastest annualized rate in nearly 30 years, but the number of those projects underway or authorized and not yet started is plateauing, according to a Bloomberg analysis of Commerce Department data.

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• The president of the Alaska Gasline Development Corp. (AGDC) said a China-backed trans-Alaska gas line project could generate up to 12,000 construction jobs, according to KTUU, and then 1,000 permanent positions once the gas line is up and running.

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