Despite recent rounds of reform, complaints linger over how long it takes state officials to turn around reviews of commercial-building projects. Now a new legislative committee composed of lawmakers and representatives of the design and construction industries is taking a fresh look at the matter.
Tagged with: commercial building code Dawn Crim Department of Safety and Professional Services plan reviews
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A Wisconsin architectural firm can’t be held liable for flawed installation work at a Wisconsin Dells water park because of a state statute limiting when claims over faulty jobs can be brought.
Tagged with: Architectural Design Consultants DeWitt Ross & Stevens SC statute of repose Wisconsin Dells
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Representatives of the dump-truck industry left a meeting with state lawmakers earlier this month with a sense that they’d probably get some sort of government relief for the ills they say have long plagued their industry.
Tagged with: Davis-Bacon dump trucks George Schroeder Trucking Robin Vos Ron Lingford United Dump Truck Association of Wisconsin Van Wanggaard Wisconsin Department of Transportation
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With his father the president of the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO, John Schmitt grew up with an almost inevitable appreciation of the benefits of unions.
Tagged with: John Schmitt Wisconsin Laborers District Council
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With inflation only making the perennial problem of paying for road projects worse, local governments in Wisconsin are turning to a new means of raising revenue.
Tagged with: infrastructure local roads Transportation transportation-utility fees wheel tax Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce Wisconsin Policy Forum Wisconsin Taxpayers Inc.
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After 25 years in the dump-truck industry, Ron Lingford decided to sell his six trucks in January and get out for good.
Tagged with: Burlington Davis-Bacon George Schroeder Trucking Gov. Tony Evers prevailing wages Robin Vos Ron Lingford United Dump Truck Association of Wisconsin Van Wanggaard
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Emily Pritzkow’s initial acquaintance with the construction industry came while she was working in state Rep. Gordon Hintz’s office, where she was assigned for a time to the state Building Commission. Now executive director of the Wisconsin Building Trades Council, ...
Tagged with: Emily Pritzkow On the level Wisconsin Building Trades Council
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With speeding and crashes up since the start of the pandemic, most contractors are reporting that highway construction zones became no safer this past year and might have grown even more hazardous. A recent Associated General Contractors of America survey ...
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Mike Schwendau’s job in the Wisconsin Department of Transportation is to monitor safety on highways and roads, and he doesn’t like what he’s seeing.
Tagged with: Michael Schwendau On the level Wisconsin Department of Transportation WisDOT
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Non-union contractors are lining up in opposition to proposed changes to federal prevailing-wage laws that they argue will make public projects more expensive at a time when the U.S. is looking to rebuild much of its infrastructure.
Tagged with: Associated Builders and Contractors Ben Brubeck Construction Business Group Dan Bukiewicz Davis-Bacon Act infrastructure Milwaukee Building & Construction Trades Council prevailing wages Robb Kahl U.S. Department of Labor
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