Industry

The Historical Construction Equipment Association releases its 2025 Wall Calendar!

JLL Industrial Report: Third highest Phoenix Q1 leasing activity on record

Leasing hits 6.3 million s.f. for the quarter, with more demand and absorption on the horizon The Phoenix Office of JLL has released its...

Federal court orders 4 Arizona contractors to pay over $3.2M in owed wages, damages to 890 workers after Department of Labor investigations

Employers also liable for $95K in penalties for overtime, minimum wage violations The U.S. Department of Labor announced today that...

AEM Invites Nominations for its 2024 Hall of Fame

The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) is now accepting nominations for its 2024 Hall of Fame, which honors the trailblazers,...

Phoenix Has Nearly 41.6 Million Square Feet of Industrial Stock Under Construction, According to LGE Design Build’s Q2 Report

Valley’s Active Industrial Projects Account for 10.9% of the National Total While the rest of the nation’s industrial market takes a...

Research continues to show that high front-end, blunt hood design could be one of the many causes of high pedestrian death rates

By Richard Parker, ASU Walter Cronkite School of Journalism Arizona’s pedestrian traffic fatalities have skyrocketed in the last decade,...

Federal wage investigations recover $607K for 227 workers on extension of Valley Metro Light Rail in Phoenix

Subcontractors underpaid workers, wrongly classified tradesmen as general laborers The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $607,395 in...

Phoenix ranked as the second-largest data center market in the U.S.

New JLL report highlights search for power, land, AI as driving forces for the sector Metro Phoenix prevails as the second-largest data...

The Home Depot Foundation invests $1 million to train veterans to rebuild communities after disasters

New grant to Team Rubicon will deploy more skilled tradespeople to communities impacted by natural disasters To further extend its...

More Women Choose Construction as a Career

While the construction industry is male dominated nationally, the underrepresentation of women in construction is less pronounced in...

ABC: 2024 Construction Workforce Shortage Tops Half a Million

The construction industry will need to attract an estimated 501,000 additional workers on top of the normal pace of hiring in 2024 to...

A Record 89.3% of the U.S. Construction Industry Is Not Part of a Union

According to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ 2023 Union Members Summary released...

JLL Q4 Report: Phoenix office fundamentals showing signs of stabilizing

Following a challenging 2023, local office market reporting some positive trends The Phoenix Office of JLL has released its Q4 2023...

ABC’s Construction Backlog Indicator Inches Higher in December, Contractor Confidence Improves

Associated Builders and Contractors reported today that its Construction Backlog Indicator increased to 8.6 months in December from 8.5...