With steadily rising costs still a big barrier to the construction of affordable housing, construction professionals are turning more and more to a relatively new remedy: volumetric modular construction, process in which most of the work takes place in a factory setting, leaving little to do on-site.

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Foxconn Technology Group has awarded contracts to 17 companies for work on a so-called smart-manufacturing center at its campus in Racine County.

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Mauritz A. “Mort” Mortenson, a second-generation patriarch of one of Minnesota’s most successful and recognizable construction companies, is being remembered by friends and family as a humble and compassionate leader.

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Although a steady backlog of work is expected to keep commercial contractors busy in Milwaukee next year, the city’s tight labor market could continue to drive up costs even as an economic slowdown looms, according to a recent report.

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Mortenson Construction is seeking bidders for another round of work on the data center that's to be built as part of Foxconn Technology Group's complex in Racine County.

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Mortenson Construction has moved its Milwaukee office to the Honey Creek Corporate Center.

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The Minnesota contracting giant Mortenson Construction announced plans on Monday to move its Wisconsin office from Brookfield to the Honey Creek Corporate Center just north Interstate 94 in Milwaukee.

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Looking back, Dr. Bill McGuire can joke that his decision to buy a soccer team was “probably pre-senile dementia.”

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Even in an expanding economy, it’s not every business that can grow tenfold in just eight years. But that’s what has happened to the renewable-energy divisions at Mortenson.

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The Fiserv Forum, named after the Brookfield-based financial-services company Fiserv Inc., is the latest in a series of projects that’s slowly transforming downtown Milwaukee. Like the Bucks’ former home – the BMO Harris Bradley Center - new arena will be a venue not only for basketball games but also touring acts such as The Killers, Justin Timberlake, Pink, Elton John and Fleetwood Mac.

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