It’s spring and with that flowers blossom, grass grows and road construction begins.
City of Beloit Construction Projects
€ A new street will be built in the Industrial Park called Sager Lane that will connect Colley Road with Springbrook Court. Along with the new street, a regional storm water detention pond and sidewalks will be built. This [...]

Garco Construction of Spokane is the apparent low bidder for the second phase of West Valley High School’s $35 million construction bond, approved by voters in 2004.
The first part of the plan, an extensive remodeling project at West Valley, is on budget and scheduled for completion before school starts next fall.
The district has set aside [...]

Strong commercial and industrial growth helped contractors continue to build on another record construction year in Waterloo during the first three months of 2007.
In Cedar Falls, construction value for the first three quarters is running 22 percent behind last year’s totals.
“There were some large commercial projects that went down already this year with contractors wanting [...]

Questions concerning parking and traffic congestion could hold up city approval for a Tri-Star Gymnastics facility slotted for construction on Route 108.
The property, located next to the New Hampshire National Guard Armory, is one of three lots owned by applicant Dick Sedgewick for development by Civil Consultants, Inc., a Maine-based civil engineering and landscape architecture [...]

State-owned Eskom said that there was a possiblity of load shedding in parts of Johannesburg over the coming month as a number of transmission lines have to be lifted during Gautrain construction work.
The utility said on Tuesday that the construction work entailed phyiscally lifting the transmission lines in order to allow adequate clearance for the [...]

Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center has joined sister facilities St. Joseph Hospital-Orange and St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton in the construction race.
St. Louis-based McCar-thy Building Cos., which has a Newport Beach office, started work earlier this month on a $67 million, four-story, 95,000-square-foot critical care building for the Mission Viejo hospital.
Mission, Orange County’s fifth-largest [...]

A hiring spurt for waiters, dishwashers and business-service workers helped counteract the continuing slump in the construction industry last month, pushing employment higher in San Diego County and statewide, according to data released yesterday by the California Employment Development Department.
Statewide, employers added 27,600 workers to their payrolls in February after a 10,400-job loss in January. [...]

NEW YORK — Stocks closed mostly higher Friday, sending the Dow Jones industrials to their best week in four years after a surprise jump in home sales eased concern that frailty in the housing market will hurt economic growth.
Existing home sales rose by the biggest amount in nearly three years in February amid a [...]

I reluctantly listened to my Realtor and painted over the purple walls and carpeted the magenta floor. I reduced my house to a monochromatic sea of beige to appease potential buyers. I wasn’t happy about it, and in a fit of acquiescent rebellion chose a nondescript color called “Pathos.” It defined my feelings about the [...]

Boasting yesterday of The Bahamas’ healthy construction industry, Minister of Works and Immigration Bradley Roberts said Grand Bahama, Abaco, Exuma, Eleuthera and New Providence are experiencing a construction boom.
Roberts, in a communication to the House of Assembly, also stressed the significance of the construction trade for developing a country.
“The importance of the construction industry [...]

Canadian new-home construction fell more than forecast in February, led by fewer starts for multiple units.
Housing starts dropped to 196,200 on an annual basis from 248,500 in the previous month, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. said today in Ottawa. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg News estimated work would start on 220,000 units, according to the [...]

At least 29 hospitals with hi-tech equipment are under construction across the country, funded to the tune of R1.2 billion this financial year, as part of government’s hospital revitalisation programme.
This was revealed by Acting Health Minister Jeff Radebe, Friday.
Speaking during his first public engagement as the Acting Minister of Health at the opening of the [...]