Construction spending in the U.S. in 2015 reached a level not seen since the financial crash, the Commerce Department reported Monday. Last year's expenditures rose to $1.097 trillion, 10.5% higher ...

Construction jobsite deaths rose in 2015 to their highest level in seven years and the industry’s fatality rate also edged up, the Dept. of Labor has reported. The department’s Bureau of Labor ...

Construction spending rose a strong 10.5% for full-year 2015, to nearly $1.1 trillion, but December’s total edged up a mere 0.1% from the previous month’s total, the U.S. Census Bureau has reported.

One of the construction supervisors convicted in the 2015 death of a young worker has been sentenced to one to three years in prison. The sentencing of foreman Wilmer Cueva comes roughly a month and a ...

The 2016 National Safety Stand-Down (hashtag #StandDown4Safety) again highlighted the importance of preventing falls, still the number one cause of worker deaths and serious injuries in the U.S.

On Aug. 6, Nashvillians voted to raise their property taxes. Though a revenue-raising measure was not on the ballot, what passed was an amendment to the Metro Charter – known as Amendment 3 – that ...

Wearing hard hats and brightly colored vests, the 450 or so workers listened intently Monday as a safety consultant from Maplewood-based 3M Co. explained the do’s and don’ts of fall protection. Safety ...

According to the latest update of Timetric’s Construction Risk Index (CRI), the overall level of risk facing the global construction industry picked up in Q3 2015, rising to its highest level in four ...

As the Maine Masonry bricklayers finished their work on the north side of the student residence being built at 65 Campus Ave., the before-and-after difference was striking in a surprising way. Yet ...