Published: November 19, 2010
Tags: Advantage Refrigeration LLC, air conditioning, Applewood Drywall Service Inc., Big Fish Contracting LLC, Brookfield, citation, Cortez Enterprises, design, Eagle, Eccentric Sound & Vision Inc., electrical, Era Valdivia Contractors Inc., excavation, eye protection, face protection, fall protection, finishing, fire protection, Gesler Concrete Inc., Greenfield, head protection, heating, Hudson, Kaukauna, ladder, Luis M. Roofing, Madison, Market & Johnson Inc., Martin’s Roofing & Remodeling LLC, masonry, Milwaukee, MJ Construction Inc., MSI General Corp., New Berlin, of the Midwest Inc., osha, painting, Plumbing, Professional Pressure Cleaning, Racine, remodeling, residential, Rice Lake, Rissa Roofing, roofing, safety, scaffolding, Service Painting Corp., settlement, Token Creek, training, Whitefish Bay, wiring, woodworking tool, work platform
OSHA reports • Cortez Enterprises, Janesville, must pay a $1,050 eye-and-face-protection citation and a $1,500 fall-protection citation because the period to contest the violations has ended. The company was issued the citations Sept. 3 during a residential remodeling job in Madison. • Rissa Roofing, Windsor, reached an informal settlement with OSHA on Oct. 19 to [...]
Published: December 29, 2009
Tags: American Sewer Services, Department of Natural Resources, DNR, local preference, MJ Construction Inc., preference, sewer, Underground Pipeline Construction Inc.
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By Sean Ryan Milwaukee has awarded two sewer projects that were caught in a dispute over the city’s bidding preference for local contractors. The two sewer construction and repair contracts, which have a combined value of $1.2 million, were awarded to Milwaukee-based MJ Construction Inc. Sanitary Sewer Main Relay and Lining Sanitary Sewer Main Relay [...]
Published: December 14, 2009
Tags: American Sewer Services, Associated Utility Contractors of Maryland, Briant, Clean Water Construction Coalition, Clean Water Fund, contractors, Department of Natural Resources, DNR, EPA, Iacoboni, Iacoboni Site Specialists, Iacoboni Site Specialists Inc., local preference, Middleton, Milwaukee, MJ Construction Inc., Underground Pipeline Construction, Wanta, Wisconsin Underground Contractors Association
By Sean Ryan The battle contractors are waging against Milwaukee’s preference for local bidders has sparked nationwide opposition to similar laws across the country. “This isn’t just in Milwaukee,” said Elaine Middleton, executive director of the Associated Utility Contractors of Maryland. “It’s just that Milwaukee seems to have been slapped by it hard.” So far, [...]
Published: November 23, 2009
Tags: American Sewer Services Inc., Ashanti Hamilton, Baas, bidding, Clean Water Fund, DNR, Klappa, local preference, Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, Milwaukee, Milwaukee 7, MJ Construction Inc., Underground Pipeline Construction Inc., Wanta, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Wisconsin Underground Contractors Association
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By Sean Ryan A Milwaukee alderman is defending the city’s preference for local bidders against criticism from Milwaukee 7, a group formed to promote regional cooperation. “It seems any type of legislation or a policy objective that benefits the city of Milwaukee, it seems that that somehow gets deemed as anti-regional,” said Alderman Ashanti Hamilton, [...]
By Sean Ryan Two contractors are taking their fight against Milwaukee’s local preference law to a state agency after a judge Thursday rejected their arguments. Underground Pipeline Construction Inc., New Berlin, and American Sewer Services Inc., Rubicon, sued Milwaukee over its 5 percent bidding preference for local companies but could not convince a judge the [...]
Published: October 19, 2009
Tags: American Sewer Services Inc., contract, lawsuit, local preference, Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, Milwaukee, MJ Construction Inc., sewer work, Super Excavators Inc., Underground Pipeline Construction Inc.
Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com Milwaukee is bidding out three contracts that would grant a 5 percent cushion to city-based builders even as two contractors are asking a judge to prohibit the local preference. A Milwaukee County judge on Nov. 3 will consider whether to prevent the contract preference until a lawsuit challenging the city law is [...]
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