Boston Construction News: Boston Looks to NYC to Get Construction Moving
With housing construction stalled across Boston, the Wu administration is thinking big when it comes to ways to get apartment and condominium projects moving again.
Massachusetts Construction News: MassDOT, Army Corps awarded $372 million grant for Cape Cod bridge replacement
The federal government is awarding $372 million in grant money toward the eventual replacement of the aging Sagamore and Bourne Bridges, which span the Cape Cod Canal.
Construction News: Construction starts rebound on manufacturing, housing strength
Total construction starts rebounded in February to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $912.8 billion, a 6% rise, due to bustling building activity for manufacturing plants and homes, according to Dodge Construction Network. But after a massive dropoff in January, starts for the first two months of the year were still 17% below their 2022 levels and weakness in the commercial and institutional sectors pose cause for concern.
Construction News: Recognizing Women in the Construction Industry
The National Center for Construction Education & Research (NCCER) performed interviews with 176 tradeswomen and analyzed 770 responses to a survey directed to women in the industry to recruit, hire and retain more women in the industry.
Construction News: Construction Employment Climbs Again, Up 25K in January
Construction gained 25,000 jobs in January, continuing the industry’s long streak of monthly employment increases, but its unemployment rate reflected mixed results, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports.
Boston Construction News: Construction begins on the East Boston electrical substation
Eight years after Eversource first proposed building an electrical substation in the Eagle Hill neighborhood of East Boston, the utility is finally breaking ground on the $103 million project.
Construction News: What’s keeping contractors up at night?
Supply chain chaos and an impending recession are among builders’ top concerns in 2023, according to a new survey.
How to Attract and Retain a Traveling Construction Team During a Labor Shortage
As these slim teams are needed for extended, out-of-town trips to worksites in other areas, it’s critical that their accommodations ensure their comfort and rest between shifts. Doing so ultimately keeps the entire team employed, safe, and productive.
Boston Construction News: Delayed Tower Takes Shape Over Boston’s South Station The 680-ft-tall structure will be one of the city’s tallest buildings
After decades of planning and false starts, a 51-story tower is finally taking shape over Boston’s South Station, set to be one of the city's tallest buildings.
Boston Construction News: Consigli breaks ground on Lendlease’s $500M Boston life science project
Australian developer Lendlease and Montreal, Canada-based real estate management firm Ivanhoé Cambridge have broken ground on a $500 million life science project in Boston.
BOSTON, MA - FEBRUARY 14: Harvard University's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is pictured under construction on Western Avenue in the Allston neighborhood of Boston on Feb. 14, 2019. From the Alewife section of Cambridge to the outer reaches of the Seaport District, from Union Square in Somerville to Barrys Corner in Allston, developers all over Greater Boston are trying to build the next Kendall Square. And its easy to see why. The East Cambridge district is arguably the center of the nations biotechnology industry, as well as major outposts of innovative companies such as Apple, Boeing, and Google. That critical mass has other firms lining up to fill any space that becomes available, driving up rents higher than anywhere else on the East Coast, except for Manhattan. (Photo by Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Massachusetts Construction News: Boston planning officials to vote on rezoning plan in Allston-Brighton
Boston planning officials will vote today on new zoning rules that could speed up the transformation of the neighborhood along Western Avenue in Allston-Brighton.
Massachusetts Construction News: Say This, Not That: Changing the Conversation Around Construction Careers to Lure Labor
As prices for materials, equipment, labor and shipping continue to increase due to unprecedented inflation in the United States as well as various supply chain crises, both nonresidential and residential construction timelines continue to lengthen. In general, a universal truth when analyzing a labor shortage: productivity declines when the labor supply is tight. In short, projects are more expensive and taking way longer than they should to complete. Baker approved all of the bond authorizations in the nearly $11.4 billion bill (H 5151) he signed Wednesday, including $400 million for immediate safety improvements at the T and $275 million as a down payment toward a western Massachusetts passenger rail expansion, and several of the outside sections packed into the major legislation.