#construction-industry

#construction-industry

The sale of the Washington Commanders is an ever-evolving beast with stories coming out almost daily that can seem conflicting.Dan Snyder has been known to use certain media outlets in New York to get his message out, and that seems to be happening again with this sale.The range of "bids" placed on the team started with reports from Forbes that there were several well north of $7 billion.

This week on Dezeen, we launched our latest series called Timber Revolution, which will investigate the potential of mass timber.Over the next month, we will publish a series of interviews, opinions and case studies that will question whether mass timber can break steel and concrete's hold over the construction industry.

America's Cup Building or the "Veles e Vents" building in Valencia, Spain, was completed in 11 months to host the America's Cup sailing competition in 2007.Christian Richters/The Pritzker Architecture Prize Sir David Chipperfield is the latest winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prestigious award that has gone in the past to the likes of Frank Gehry, Luis Barragan, Oscar Niemeyer and Zaha Hadid.

A grandmother in Jos, Nigeria goes from breaking rocks for a living to rocking social media with her song.Hamsatu Izang sings out as she hammers rocks into small gravel pieces for the construction industry.Singing brings her joy and peace, she says, amid this hard manual labour.But when a local music producer hears her song, her life takes a surprising turn and a whole new world opens up.

As more women enter skilled construction trades in Ontario, some say sexism and discrimination still play an exceptionally large role in how they are treated on job sites.Women only represent five per cent of the construction industry in Canada, and while there has been a push to get typically underrepresented groups into skilled trades, some of those workers say stereotypes persist throughout the sector.

Narratives of the great migration and the Harlem renaissance have dominated conversations around African American art in the 20th century, but a new exhibition, Souls Grown Deep Like the Rivers, which opens at the Royal Academy in London this week, invites us to consider the cultural contribution of artists from the American south.

Canada's economy added 150,000 jobs in January, blowing past expectations for the second month in a row.Statistics Canada reported Friday that most of the jobs more than 120,000 were of the full-time variety.Canada's economy added 150,000 jobs last month, Statistics Canada reported Friday.(Anis Heydari/CBC) The gains come on the heels of an initial report of more than 100,000 jobs in December, a report that the data agency later revised down to just 69,000.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Travis Perkins has revealed plans to train 10,000 apprentices by 2030.The building materials firm said it hopes the target will help address a critical industry skills gap and develop skills needed to help deliver new homes and infrastructure.

A project manager has successfully overturned a huge 10,000 Covid fine for not wearing a face mask at a Tube station.Sean Howson, 40, was stopped by police at Green Park station on December 28, 2021, after being spotted using his coat to cover his nose and mouth.He said he was surrounded by five police officers, and pointed out several other people at the station without masks who were not being challenged.

Hemp is becoming an increasingly popular material among architects seeking to reduce the carbon impact of their projects.Here is a roundup of nine buildings constructed using the versatile cannabis crop.Mounting evidence suggests that the construction industry must adopt bio-based alternatives to common carbon-intensive building materials, such as concrete, to play its part in reducing emissions and limiting global temperature rises.

The delay to part of the HS2 high-speed rail line will increase costs in the long term, the rail and construction industry has said.On Thursday, the government announced a two-year delay to the Birmingham to Crewe leg, blaming soaring costs.The transport secretary said he was "committed" to the line linking London, the Midlands and the North of England.

Ontario will allow students, starting in Grade 11, to transition to full-time apprenticeship programs while still earning a high school diploma, the government said Wednesday.The move is part of a wider push to address immense labour shortages as the province looks to build some 1.5 million new homes by 2031, Labour Minister Monte McNaughton said at a news conference in Pickering.

As a mariachi band played in a nearby parking lot, dozens of semitrailers parked one after the other on Western Avenue.Each one was adorned with images of Our Lady of Guadalupe, some with flags - Mexican and American ones.But instead of freight, this time the drivers transported only their families and friends.

The cost of materials and labour for construction have increased more steeply in the UK than the EU since the Brexit referendum, new research has found.Analysis of data from EU member states, the central EU database, Eurostat, and the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy show that between 2015 and 2022 the cost of construction materials including cement, timber and steel increased by 60%.

Friday, December 2, 2022 by Jonathan Lee
City Council unanimously passed an ordinance Thursday to help prevent wage theft by employers."Violation of wage laws harms workers and their families," said Council Member Ann Kitchen, who sponsored a resolution  initiating the ordinance."This ordinance helps ensure they get paid what they have earned."