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• Nation's first set of green building model codes and standards announced

  BD+C staff, March 11, 2010
  The International Code Council (ICC), the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), and the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES) announce the launch of the International Green Construction Code (IGCC), representing the merger of two national efforts to develop adoptable and enforceable green building codes.  More

• Construction employment declines between January '09 and '10

  BD+C staff, March 10, 2010
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• More construction firms likely to perform stimulus-funded work in 2010 as funding expands beyond transportation programs

  BD+C staff, February 16, 2010
  Stimulus funded infrastructure projects are saving and creating more direct construction jobs than initially estimated, according to a new analysis of federal data released today by the Associated General Contractors of America. The analysis also found that more contractors are likely to perform stimulus funded work this year as work starts on many of the non-transportation projects funded in the initial package.  More

• Construction spending hits six-year low as employment declines in 324 of 337 cities

  January 5, 2010
  Construction employment declined in 324 out of 337 metropolitan areas over the past year as spending on construction projects dropped by over $137 billion in November to a 6-year low of $900 billion, according to a new analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of federal figures released recently.  More

• 'Be diligent about weeding out bad clients'

  January 1, 2010
  Mark Goodale is a principal with Morrissey Goodale LLC, a business consulting and research firm serving the AEC industry. Before helping to establish Morrissey Goodale, he was the corporate strategic marketing manager at PBS&J. He also worked at consulting and publishing firm ZweigWhite for 12 years, heading the firm's strategic business planning and marketing business units.  More

• Minneapolis Public Housing authority, Honeywell launch energy retrofit program

  December 14, 2009
  Minneapolis Public Housing Authority and Honeywell today announced a $33.6-million energy efficiency and facility renewal program that will help the housing authority improve its infrastructure, reduce its impact on the environment, and save more than $3.7 million in utility costs per year. Local contractors will also complete a majority of the work for the program, one of the largest of its kind for a public housing authority, helping boost the Twin Cities job market.  More

• Skanska Promotes Richard Kennedy to COO for NY/NJ Metro Area

  December 9, 2009
  Skanska USA Building Inc., headquartered in Parsippany, N.J., has announced that Richard Kennedy was promoted to Chief Operating Officer from his previous role as Senior Vice President – General Counsel. Kennedy’s promotion marks the latest addition to Skanska’s national leadership team.  More

• The New Yorker's David Owen: Why Manhattan is America's greenest community

  December 8, 2009
  David Owen is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of 14 books, most recently Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability, in which he argues that Manhattan is the greenest community in America. He graduated from Harvard and lives in Washington, Conn., where he chairs the town planning commission.  More

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