Turner Construction Company, the nation’s leading general builder, today announced that construction costs increased 1.57% over the First Quarter 2008 and 6.61% over the Second Quarter 2007. Turner has issued this quarterly forecast for more than 80...

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Mary Pat McKay, a physician in the emergency department at The George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C., has been slapped, grabbed, spat on, and kicked—all while trying to render medical assistance to patients in the ER. She has narrowly...

Following a slight rise in April, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) fell two points in May, prolonging the downturn in design activity at architecture firms. As a leading economic indicator of construction activity, the ABI shows an approximate nine...

Hager Companies, a leading manufacturer of commercial door hardware, recently announced a new series of value-added Architectural Hardware Consulting (AHC) services to architects and hardware specifiers, all free of charge. Hager’s list of value-added...

At a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $557.8 billion, new construction starts in May were essentially unchanged from April, according to McGraw-Hill Construction, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies. Nonresidential building in May registered a...

May housing starts fell 3.3 percent, to 0.975 million (SAAR). The decrease in total starts was driven by weakness in both components: the volatile multi-family sector was down eight percent while single family starts were down one percent to 0.674...

McGraw-Hill Construction, part of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), has released its annual Construction Outlook Midyear Update, providing insight into the performance of the construction industry through the end of 2008. The major findings of...

Residential fire sprinklers and improved energy efficiency are just a few of the code change proposals expected to draw lively debate during the International Code Council’s Final Action Hearings at the Code Council’s 2008 Annual Conference. Held...

The good news about the economy is that the real Gross Domestic Product showed stronger growth for the first quarter of 2008 than was originally estimated by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. This news prompted at least one forecaster to revise...

The U.S. Green Building Council has opened the first public comment period on LEED 2009, the next evolution of the LEED green building certification system. The LEED 2009 Green Building Rating System focuses on energy and carbon performance of...

McGraw-Hill Construction (MHC), a part of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE:MHP), today presented the findings of its latest market research investigating “green” home building, focusing on changes in green building activity between 2001 and 2007, the...

Green building is the subject of the new white paper in the Research Series of the Foundation of the Wall and Ceiling Industry. The publication, Green Building: Understanding, Bidding and Building Green, will be mailed to all AWCI members next month and...

After sinking to its lowest level ever in March, indicating a rapid slowdown in billings at U.S. architecture firms, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) rose slightly in April. As a leading economic indicator of construction activity, the ABI shows an...

The U.S. Green Building Council has re-launched its Greenbuild365 Website. Visitors will find increased educational offerings, podcasts and expanded resources, along with year-round access to plenaries and master speaker presentations from USGBC’s...

Government agencies are looking at price adjustment mechanisms, and many more, at the federal and state level are eying use of indexes, including steel. Contractors and subcontractors can look to ConsensusDOCS to protect themselves against risk. For...