HS2 is currently running £800m over its forecast cost during phase one and risks missing its opening deadline. Delays and extra costs during the enabling works, combined with higher-than-planned expense for the new Euston station have been blamed. The warnings came in the first bi-annual…

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September 2020 Was Just Plain Weak

ConstructConnect announced today that the latest month’s volume of construction starts, excluding residential work, was $24.3 billion (green shaded box, Table 4 below), a drop of one quarter (-24.8%) versus August’s figure of $32.4 billion.

The accompanying table records the top 10 project starts in the U.S. for September 2020.

Clichés are often true and it is the case that a picture can be worth a thousand words.

There has been a lot of talk about the labor shortage facing the construction industry in the past few years, which makes it even more important for your company to properly manage the team members it currently has. Typically, workforce resource management is completed in spreadsheets — if completed at all – many times leading to overworked or underworked staff.

Listed below are ConstructConnect’s Hot Commercial Construction Projects for the week of September 28 – October 2, 2020. Our Hot Projects showcases three currently bidding or sub-bidding projects from all 50 states and the District of Columbia pulled from our extensive database of construction leads.

Happy Birthday, Mom!  R.I.P. We have had some serious equipment issues getting ready this season.  Mostly faulty EXPENSIVE equipment we have purchased for our compressors.  The compressors themselves are doing great, but the reels are an entirely different story.  Brand new reels that aren’t functioning as they should, electronic parts with switch, circuit breaker, and […]

Yesterday was a really good day even though we had some issues with two of our powered hose reels.  Both brand new, and both causing problems. One a good note the company we purchased them from is going to get us better reels, and somehow we have to find the time to remove the old […]

Yesterday went really well unless you count Jacob having a problem with his hose reel chain again.  The new reels won’t be here for at least two weeks, so we are going to have to deal….. 72 sprinkler blowouts bit the dust yesterday.  Hopefully, we can at least match that today.  We are routing five […]

Yesterday was an awesome day in sprinkler blowout land!  We managed to clear out 78 blowouts.  Make sure to watch our stats page to see how we are doing. Today we are going to have one rig in the Boise 83702, one in the 83705, and two in the 83706.  We are working around through […]