Liberty Mutual Insurance Group presented the Gold Medal award to Moss Anderson Construction Group (a partnership of Moss & Associates and Roy Anderson Corp.) for outstanding construction safety in completion of the Carillon Beach Inn and Condos in Panama City Beach.
The Gold Award is Liberty Mutual’s highest honor for effective construction safety practices awarded to [...]

Construction on the North Myrtle Beach Connector bridge over the Intracoastal Waterway could begin as early as this summer.
Plans for the project are being submitted to potential builders now and officials hope a contract will be finalized in May, according to a release from S.C. Sen. Dick Elliott. Construction could begin in June or July.
The [...]

U.S. construction of new homes and apartments rose 0.8 percent in March to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.518 million units, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday.
The construction in March, which is 1.4 percent above the February figure of 1.099 million units, but is 23 percent below the March 2006 rate of 1.972 million units.
Data [...]

Skanska has been contracted to construct a combined office and housing project in Stavanger, Norway. The contract amount is NOK 400 M, about SEK 460 M. The order amount will be included in order bookings for the second quarter of 2007. The customer is Øvre Straen AS.
The project comprises a seven-storey building for offices and [...]

Granite Construction Incorporated (NYSE:GVA) announced that Granite Construction Company, a wholly owned subsidiary, has formally requested that the Oregon Department of Transportation (”ODOT”) terminate its contract to build the US 20 Pioneer Mountain to Eddyville Design-Build project. The $130 million contract was awarded in July 2005 to Yaquina River Constructors (”YRC”), a joint venture of [...]

Centex Corporation announced it has completed the sale of its commercial construction division, Centex Construction, to Balfour Beatty PLC, the leading UK-based international engineering and construction group, for approximately $362m, subject to certain adjustments.
The transaction furthers Centex’s strategy to “focus on its core home building operations”, a process that started with the sale of its [...]

Los Angeles engineering giant Aecom has acquired STS Consultants, Ltd. (STS), a Vernon Hills, Ill.-based engineering consulting firm with more than 550 engineers, scientists and support personnel in 18 offices in the United States and the United Arab Emirates.
The combination of Aecom, whose 28,000 staff members serve clients in more than 60 countries, and STS, [...]

Centex Corp. said it has completed the sale of its commercial construction division for about $362 million.
The sale was made to Balfour Beatty PLC, an international engineering and construction group based in the U.K. Balfour Beatty Chief Executive Officer Ian Tyler said the purchase is part of the company’s long-term growth strategy to build [...]

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 [...]

McGraw-Hill Construction’s GreenSource, a publication devoted to sustainable design and construction, won the Jesse H. Neal Award for Best Start-Up Publication at the American Business Media’s annual Neal Awards event. McGraw-Hill Construction, a unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP) , also received two awards for ENR.com (http://www.enr.com/), the website of Engineering News-Record. The website [...]

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 [...]