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With its Construction Labor Market Analyzer integrated into Procore's construction management platform, technology firm Construction Industry Resources aims to assist contractors in making accurate predictions of labor needs.

Former state House Speaker Larry Householder gets 20-year term for his role in the bribery scandal while former Ohio Republican Party Chairman and FirstEnergy lobbyist Matt Borges was sentenced to five years. 

 McCownGordon is building the $275 million facility in collaboration with ESI Design Services, Inc. of Hartland, Wisc.

The Michigan Attorney General's Office wants to seek a judgment against Lee Mueller who headed the company that owned the Edenville Dam. 

The building's owner pleaded guilty to an infraction of city code for failing to maintain the building.

Developed by Advanced Construction Robotics of Pittsburgh, TyBOT did 17,823 ties in two shifts across a 7,775-sq-ft area on a bridge in Wisconsin. 

Months before a six-story apartment building in Davenport, Iowa, partially collapsed May 28, a structural engineer advised the property owner that an unexpected void space had been discovered during repairs to a damaged area of the exterior brick wall.

Six-story Davenport apartment structure had been undergoing exterior brick wall repairs prior to partial collapse on May 28, with two people feared still inside and dead. 

CTA's plan calls for its Red Line L train to be extended 5.6 miles into Chicago's Far South Side with four new stations and a storage and maintenance facility.