While overall employment in the southwest saw little growth in May, the construction industries in Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada joined 13 other states that all posted month-over-month and year-over-year employment gains in the sector.
Hyperloop technology took an important step forward and Hyperloop One already has the engineering partners in place to make its new technology a reality.
Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico joined 28 other states and Washington, D.C. that all experienced construction job losses or stagnation between March and April.
Keynote speaker Sally Spencer and others offered helpful tools and resources to help employers and workers in the construction industry prevent suicide.
Arizona State University faculty member Patrick Phelan, on leave to assist the Department of Energy, explains his vision for the sustainable buildings of the future.
While no state in the Southwest posted month-over-month construction employment growth in December 2015, both Arizona and Nevada showed significant year-over-year job growth in the sector.
Citing pent-up demand, Portland Cement Association chief economist Edward Sullivan say he expects to see a 5% growth in portland cement consumption in 2016, with a further 5.7% growth of growth in 2017. This is an improvement over the growth rate from 2015, which was only 3.5%.
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