Published: June 18, 2010
Tags: Antonio Riley, Construction, developers, electrical, hire, Jon Matthews, laid off, minority participation, projects, T.L. Reese Electrical Systems LLC, tax credits, WHEDA, Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority
Comments: 1
By Sean Ryan
State officials plan to use tax credits awarded Friday to drum up work for builders such as Jon Matthews, who started an electrical company this week.
Matthews, who founded T.L. Reese Electrical Systems LLC in partnership with Troy Reese, said the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority projects offer him a chance to land [...]
Published: May 28, 2010
Tags: Construction, holiday, Wisconsin Department of Transportation, WisDOT
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Most highway repair projects across Wisconsin will be on hold over the long Memorial Day holiday weekend.
According to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, only a few main highways will have lane restrictions. Those include Interstate 94 south of Milwaukee, I-94 east of Madison and Highways 41 near Oshkosh and 172 at [...]
Published: May 10, 2010
Tags: Aadland Evans Constructors, AGC, Associated General Contractors of America, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Choctaw Transportation Co., Construction, employment, stimulus
By Brian Johnson
Dolan Media Newswires
Minneapolis — Despite national employment numbers offering encouraging news for construction, builders across the country are nervous about what the future holds as stimulus projects start to wind down.
Construction employment was up by 14,000 jobs in April, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It was the second straight month of [...]
Published: February 11, 2010
Tags: blog, Construction, Hot Topics, jobs, recession, unemployment, Yovino
By Joe Yovino
web editor
Have you ever waited for something so long the wait actually becomes the something?
Published: January 27, 2010
Tags: automotive, Construction, consumer products, Hyundai, industrial equipment, Kia, Nucor Corp., steel industry, Thomson Reuters, United States Steel Corp.
By Sandy Shore
AP Business Writer
Denver — Steelmakers are seeing the first blush of a recovery with more orders from manufacturers of autos, appliances and similar products. Yet, the battered industry’s full recovery has been stalled largely by a sluggish construction market.
Officials at United States Steel Corp. and Nucor Corp. this week indicated they believe the [...]
Published: January 22, 2010
Tags: Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., coal, Construction, CSX Corp., demand, economy, industry, products, railroad, recession, recovery, shipments, shipping, transport, Union Pacific Corp.
Comments: 1
By Josh Funk
AP Business Writer
Omaha, Neb. — The nation’s railroad operators expect a tepid recovery for the U.S. economy in 2010, as both businesses and consumers continue to wrestle with the effects of the recession.
The severe economic slump cut shipping demand for the railroads because American consumers and industries have been buying fewer of the [...]
By Joe Yovino
web editor
Ten months may seem like a century for the beleaguered construction industry as it waits for a jump-start from the U.S government. But it might take another 10 months or longer for the rebound in construction to take effect if you put stock in an Associated Press report released Monday.
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER
AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Construction of new homes, helped by better weather, rebounded in November following a setback in the previous month.
The gain is a hopeful sign that the housing recovery is continuing, a development viewed as critical to lifting the overall economy out of recession.
According to the Commerce Department, construction of [...]
Published: November 30, 2009
Tags: AGC, Associated General Contractors of America, Construction, Fisher, Friedl, jobs, Schmitt, training, unemployment, Wisconsin Laborers’ District Council
Comments: 2
By Sean Ryan
Al Friedl is turning people away at the door of his construction training classes because he doesn’t have enough desks to match the number of unemployed workers seeking new skills.
“I need a bigger building,” said Friedl, director of training for the Wisconsin Laborers Apprenticeship and Training Center, “and it’s only four years old.”
Laborers [...]
To the editor:
We in the Department of Workforce Development take issue with a number of the points in your recent article on Wisconsin’s apprenticeship program. For the record, we completely support the need for racial diversity in construction apprenticeships, and since 2002, we have made progress in increasing the representation of minorities in the apprenticeship [...]
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