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Legislation that allowed local governments to direct excess property tax dollars from tax-increment financing districts into other private...
Voters passed fewer ballot measures related to construction projects this year than they did in 2008, according to an analysis by the Associated...
Universal Contracting LLC of American Fork, Utah, has filed suit challenging the constitutionality of Utah’s 2011 immigration law.
About $2 billion worth of construction and design projects would be eliminated if scheduled federal budget cuts, referred to as sequestration,...
The Commercial Building Modernization Act recently introduced in the Senate would extend and streamline a current tax deduction to encourage...
Sequestration, or the implementation of automatic budget cuts as of January 2013, would slash government agencies' already reduced construction...
Construction would stop downtown for six months while Lorain, Ohio officials consider a development plan for the city, according to new...
Business and labor groups have combined forces to push for a change to California's Environmental Quality Act, specifically its complex review...
This action may foreshadow federal spending cuts scheduled for year's end if Congress takes no action on the federal budget.
Currently, LEED green building standards only accept timber products certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).
The Safe Building Code Incentive Act would give states a little extra post-disaster federal funding if they enacted and enforced nationally...
Office of Management and Budget Director Jeffrey Zients is scheduled to testify before the House Armed Services Committee Aug. 1 to explain the...
Legislation to prevent undocumented workers from being hired by construction companies working on state-funded projects passed the Pennsylvania...
Legislation that approved the construction of a new billion dollar stadium for the Minnesota Vikings passed the Minnesota legislature.
Legislation pending before the Michigan Senate would change the law that calls for building codes to be updated every three years to require an...
Some long-delayed projects in the Upper Kobuk region of Alaska may now move forward thanks to legislation that allows construction in areas that...
In the wake of the recent scandal at the General Services Administration in which workers spent lavishly at a Las Vegas conference, a spokesman...
A fight is brewing in the Michigan legislature over how many fully qualified electricians must be present during electrical work when apprentices...
Though Congress passed a defense budget preventing the Department of Defense from spending money to achieve LEED gold or platinum certification,...
A bill in the California Assembly would allow the state to pool together property owners’ energy-retrofit loans.
