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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, ...

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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 ...

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.

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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.

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Milwaukee officials are proposing to use $75 million from the city’s next installment of the federal infrastructure bill to maintain city services next year.

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Construction spending inched up slowly from February to March as supply shortages and rising materials prices continued to weigh on the industry.

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Michels Corp. has won a nearly $1 million contract to remove sediment from a Dane County lake as part of the county’s “Suck the Muck” campaign to curtail phosphorus pollution.

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Along with being among the relatively few women with an executive role at a large general contractor, Anna Stern can now claim to be the first female president of the Associated General Contractors of Wisconsin.

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The good news for women interested in construction is that the industry is more welcoming to them than ever.

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On taking over as president of the Associated General Contractors of Greater Milwaukee, Scott Heberlein found himself staring down both an old problem and a rather new one.

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