Construction spending slips 0.3 percent in November

January 5, 2015 3:43 pm Leave a comment

workers raise a wall in the late sunlight at a building construction in Newtown, Pa. The Commerce Department said Friday, Jan. 2, 2015, that construction spending slipped 0.3 percent in November, after having climbed an upwardly revised 1.2 percent in October and 0.6 percent in September. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

A sharp slowdown in government-built schools and infrastructure caused U.S. construction spending to fall slightly in November.

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Business Digest for Dec. 18, 2014

December 18, 2014 9:29 am Leave a comment

McMahon Inc. is the winner of a National Gold Award for the firm’s work on Highway 96 in Little Chute. (Photo courtesy of McMahon Inc.)

McMahon, Neenah, won the National Gold Award from the American Concrete Pavement Association for the company’s design and construction on the Highway 96 project in Little Chute.

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Design industry reps call for more women

November 12, 2014 4:00 pm Leave a comment

Women represent about 43 percent of architectural school graduates in the U.S., but only about 20 percent of licensed architects and 17 percent of principals and partners are women, according to industry statistics.

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HGA’s Shields finds the best of both worlds

October 16, 2014 9:26 am Leave a comment

Jim Shields is vice president and design principal with HGA in Milwaukee and associate professor of architectural design and building construction at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. (Staff photo by Kevin Harnack)

After nearly 40 years in architecture, Jim Shields still approaches his work with the same wonder he had as a child.

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Zimmerman represents second generation, forward thinking

October 2, 2014 1:13 pm Leave a comment

Working in a 110-year-old building for a family company that’s been around since 1906, Kurt Zimmerman can’t help having a sense of history.

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Camp fire (PHOTO SLIDESHOW)

August 11, 2014 3:19 pm Leave a comment

As part of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Architecture Summer Camp Academy at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, 14 high school students stayed at the college’s residence hall and got a taste of college life. Students toured architecture around Milwaukee and learned about the control of design space.

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Report: Architects with midrange experience in short supply

July 9, 2014 9:28 am Leave a comment

Architecture firms expanding post-recession are encountering a shortage of architects with midrange experience, according to the American Institute of Architects.

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