ENR’s 2013 — Images of the Year “features photos that best capture the mood and flavor of construction during 2013.” The 38 featured photos, selected from hundreds of images submitted, will no doubt lighten your mood. Additional Sources: ENR, Close Call: 2013 Photo Contest Runners-Up (Jan. 15, 2014); ENR, Construction…
UPDATE: Forbes, The Recession Generation: How Millennials Are Changing Money Management Forever Apparently everyone is battling to win the millennials’ spending power. If you aren’t, maybe you should be. Who are the “millennials?” In his Times Magazine article Millennials: The Next Greatest Generation?, Joel Stein explains that they are the…
The 2013 State of Women-Owned Businesses Report commissioned by American Express Open is a summary of important trends from 1997 through 2013. It provides insight into opportunities for women-owned business enterprises (WBEs) in 2014. The Report reinforces trends seen in earlier reports and in other research — the number of…
This week the Wall Street Journal published Exposing the EPA, an editorial that was very critical of EPA’s consideration of a “pre-emptive” veto of the Pebble Mine Project, a proposal to develop America’s largest copper and gold mine in Southwest Alaska. The Journal writes that EPA has been planning for…
Those are words no one ever wants to hear. Hearing them is no doubt worse when, in fact, you don’t have one. In the last two months, two construction projects were brought to a halt when an unlicensed subcontractor was discovered. On April 11, the California Contractors State License Board…
The California Contractors State License Board posed this question in its California Licensed Contractor Newsletter, Fall 2013 edition Quick Quiz: “Can I do anything to have my application processed right away so I can start bidding and working on new jobs? a. Yes, but only if you send enough money…
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation recently published its Enterprising Cities Regulatory Climate Index 2014 (Index), assessing 5 areas of regulation across 10 cities in the United States: (1) Dallas, Texas, (2) St. Louis, Missouri, (3) Raleigh, North Carolina, (4) Boston, Massachusetts, (5) Atlanta, Georgia, (6) Detroit, Michigan, (7) Chicago,…
Yesterday, Pillsbury attorneys Peter Wyckoff, Mike Barr, Jeff Knight, Anthony Cavender, and Matt Morrison published their advisory titled The U.S. Supreme Court Upholds EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule in EPA v. EME Homer City Generation, L.P., Paving the Way to Further Use of Cap-and-Trade Programs to Control Emissions of SO2…
Biz2Credit identifies the top 25 cities for small business in 2014 and 5 of them are in California, 4 are in Florida, and 3 are in Texas. For its analysis, Biz2Credit defined “small businesses” as “companies having fewer than 250 employees or less than $10 million in annual revenues.” Cities…
UPDATE: Washington Department of Labor & Industries, Electrical Safety Standards, Administration and Installation WAC Rule 296-46B (F500-039-222) effective on July 1, 2014 The Washington State Department of Labor & Industries is considering amendments to the electrical rules based upon new safety code requirements from the 2014 edition of the National…