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Chiefs of Laborers and Electrical Workers unions addressed delegates in Chicago as Democrats released their party platform that emphasized infrastructure funding priorities.

Six-week program sponsored by NAWIC is exposing potential female craft professionals to the skills needed and benefits gained of working in construction. 

Leading structural engineering expert is remembered by colleague as the "consummate professional."

All construction sectors added jobs in July, led by specialty trade contractors, who boosted employment by nearly 19,000 positions.

Chair of Chelmsford, Mass.-based Hub Foundation Co. Inc. and cited earlier this year by The Moles for outstanding achievement, Maxwell died July 25 after a five year battle with Lou Gehrig's disease,

Electrical contractor Power Design, general contractor John Moriarty & Associates and other firms agree to $3.45M pact that includes restitution for wages and benefits the city claimed were not provided to 1,200 workers, and civil penalties.

Rigger Jorge De La Torre, 27, fell to his death, but motorists in vehicles miraculously sustained only injuries in the accident earlier this spring.

The contractor's lawsuit cites the union's use of an employee's old Facebook posts.

Norway-based solar energy manufacturer NorSun will spend $620 million to build its first U.S.-based factory—a 5-GW facility in Tulsa, Okla., that will produce silicon ingots and wafers for solar cells and panels.

The National Transportation Safety Board has released preliminary findings from its investigation late last year.