Published: March 29, 2010
Tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Breakthrough Institute, cash for clunkers, Citizens Against Government Waste, HomeStar, Obama, retrofitted, U.S. Labor Department, weather-tight windows, weatherization, Weatherization Assistance Program
By Garance Burke
AP Writer
Fresno, Calif. — After a year of crippling delays, President Barack Obama’s $5 billion program to install weather-tight windows and doors has retrofitted a fraction of homes and created far fewer construction jobs than expected.
The program was a hallmark of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, a way to shore up the [...]
Published: February 4, 2010
Tags: Baiyewu, energy-efficient, Fell, First Choice Pre-Apprenticeship Training Center, loan, mason, Milwaukee Laborers Local 113, stimulus, weatherization, Westring, Westring Construction, Westring Construction LLC
Comments: 3
By Paul Snyder
James Westring is getting a lot of phone calls about weatherization work, but not much follow through.
“Interest is steady,” said Westring, the owner of Madison-based Westring Construction LLC. “I get people calling me up about weatherizing their homes, and then they go and get two or three other estimates. What’s not happening is [...]
Published: December 21, 2009
Tags: 2010, Associated Builders & Contractors of Wisconsin Inc., Associated General Contractors of Wisconsin, Barker, Dennis Lynch, John Mielke, Johnson Controls Inc., Joint Committee on Finance, Mark Wagner, Miron Construction Co. Inc., road construction, stimulus, weatherization
Comments: 1
By Paul Snyder
Contractors disagree over what federal stimulus money will mean to the industry in 2010.
“Most contractors are feeling the pain right now,” said Bob Barker, executive vice president of the Associated General Contractors of Wisconsin Inc. “Some are doing better than others and have been able to take advantage of opportunities with renovating multifamily [...]
Published: September 9, 2009
Tags: federal government, homebuilders, prevailing wage, stimulus, union, weatherization, Wisconsin Laborers’ District Council
Comments: 2
Sean Ryan
sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com
A federal prevailing-wage requirement for stimulus-backed weatherization projects is drawing fire from labor and management.
Labor wants the pay rate to go higher. Management wants the rate to go away. Both sides realize they have little chance of getting their way before the stimulus money is spent.
“You are dealing with the federal government here,” said [...]
Published: August 13, 2009
Tags: contractors, Department of Energy, Department of Labor, stimulus, weatherization
Comments: 1
Nate Jenkins and Sam Hananel
AP Writers
Lincoln, NB — Jackie Harpst expected a busy summer at her nonprofit housing agency, as work crews backed by Nebraska’s share of $5 billion in federal stimulus money headed out to seal windows and spread insulation.
Months after she thought work would begin, not a single window has been caulked. And [...]
Published: July 29, 2009
Tags: construction trades, energy-efficient, lead abatement, Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board, recovery, stimulus, training, weatherization
Sean Ryan
sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com
People who train workers in the construction trades worry their program graduates will suffer if development does not recuperate before stimulus money runs out.
The city of Milwaukee is getting money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to pay for projects and train city residents to be construction workers. The workers in training programs [...]
Published: July 22, 2009
Tags: architects, billings, Duluth-Superior, iron ore, open meetings, shipments, stimulus, weatherization
AIA billings index shows decline in work from May to June
The economic outlook provided by the Architecture Billings Index went from bad to worse as architects reported less work in June.
The billings index, created by the American Institute of Architects, is based on a survey of firms that measures how many prospective projects architects [...]
Published: July 16, 2009
Tags: Alabama, Council for Citizens Against Government Waste, Energy Department, energy-efficient, federal government, homes, insulation, stimulus money, Virginia, weatherization, weatherize, Wisconsin
Phillip Rawls
AP Writer
Montgomery, AL — Ready or not, states are getting a tenfold boost in federal money to weatherize drafty homes, an increase so huge it has raised fears of waste and fraud and set off a scramble to find workers and houses for them to repair.
An obscure program that installs insulation in homes and [...]
Published: July 8, 2009
Tags: Kohler-Andrae State Park, Minnesota, state budget, students fees, University of Wisconsin System, weatherization
Minnesota to get $52 million from in federal stimulus money for weatherization
Minneapolis (AP) — Federal stimulus money will be funneled to weatherization work on thousands of Minnesota homes.
Congressman Jim Oberstar said Tuesday the state Department of Commerce will get $52.7 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to weatherize 16,800 homes this year.
He said [...]
