By Helen Callier As I wrote this article during the week of a surprise freeze, millions of my fellow Texans were without power and were attempting to stay warm huddled inside their homes. Others sought shelter at warming centers to weather the freezing temperatures and to protect their family. Though many parts of Texas are…
By Helen Callier, Subcontractors USA Contributing Writer You’re a construction project executive with demands to grow your business in 2021, and the new normal is causing budget strains from waiting around much longer than planned for building permits. We get it! We hear the challenges from the many calls in our PermitUsNow’s toll free line…
Association Weighs Legal Options By Subcontractors USA News Provider In a further response to the Associated General Contractors of America’s (AGC) pressure to restrict the use and ultimately require the Small Business Administration (SBA) to revise its Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) “Loan Necessity Questionnaire” — including the lawsuit that AGC filed against SBA on December…
By Subcontractors USA News Provider Few Construction Firms Expect the Industry to Recover to Pre-Pandemic Levels Anytime Soon, While Demand for Most Types of Projects is Likely to Fall amid Growing Project Delays and Cancellations Construction employment increased by 51,000 jobs in December, with gains for nonresidential as well as residential contractors, according to an…
By Subcontractors USA News Provider New Industry Outlook Finds Most Contractors Expect Demand for Many Categories of Construction to Decline, Few Firms Expect the Industry to Recover to Pre-Pandemic Levels Soon, but will Sustain IT Investments Most contractors expect demand for many types of construction to shrink in 2021 even as the pandemic is prompting…
By Helen Callier, Subcontractors USA Contributing Writer Did you read the December 2020 issue of the Subcontractors USA Texas Journal? There was a great article on page 4 titled, “US Construction Spending to Gain Ground Through 2024” highlighting growth in certain construction industry sectors and regions in the U.S., such as in the South. This…
Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land and Brockton-Bridgewater-Easton, Mass. Have Worst 12-Month Losses, While Dallas-Plano-Irving, Texas and Walla Walla, Wash. Lead in Construction Job Increases By Subcontractors USA News Provider Only 30 percent of the nation’s metro areas added construction jobs in the past year, according to an analysis of new government data that the Associated General Contractors…
By Subcontractors USA News Provider Founded in Oakland, California, in 1969 by Ray Dones and Joseph Debro, the National Association of Minority Contractors (NAMC) is the oldest minority construction trade association in the United States. Members include more than 50 Hall of Fame members and Legacy Contractor Builders and a combined annual project capacity of…
Small Business Administration and Office of Management and Budget Secretly Crafted Questionnaire that Asks about Everything Other Than the Economic Uncertainty that Congress Intended to Drive Program By Subcontractors USA News Provider The Associated General Contractors of America filed suit recently to compel Small Business Administration (SBA) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)…
While COVID-19 delays some projects, growth in the residential and nonbuilding sectors will spur gains By Subcontractors USA News Provider US construction expenditures are forecast to increase 3.7% yearly in nominal terms through 2024, according to Construction: United States, a report recently released by Freedonia Focus Reports. Contractors stand to benefit from continued gains in…
By Subcontractors USA News Provider Incoming President and Congress Should Focus on Enacting Measures to Rebuild Infrastructure and Revive the Economy and Avoid Imposing Needless Regulatory Burdens that will Undermine Growth The Associated General Contractors of America’s chief executive officer, Stephen E. Sandherr, issued the following statement in reaction to the election of Joseph Biden…
By Helen Callier, President of Permit Us Now, LLC Have you ever been red-tagged on a project? It happens, and seeing a red tag posted on your construction project can be disheartening. And it becomes worse when your project is shut down because of failure in pulling a building permit. Failing to pull a building…
By Subcontractors USA News Provider Navistar International Corporation, a leading maker of International® brand commercial trucks, proprietary diesel engines and IC Bus® brand school and commercial buses, recently joined the City of San Antonio, Bexar County and the San Antonio Economic Development Foundation (SAEDF) in a virtual groundbreaking ceremony to celebrate construction of Navistar’s new…
By Subcontractors USA News Provider Ti Cold Development, a nationally recognized leader in the cold chain industry, brings this unique cold storage opportunity to the Houston market. Upon completion, this facility will boast nearly 304,000 sq. ft. of storage space, over 42,000 pallet positions, a 55-foot-deep refrigerated dock and -10F to 60F, fully convertible refrigerated…
California and Vermont Post Worst Losses since February as Virginia and South Dakota Add the Most;Illinois and Iowa Have Worst One-Month Job Losses, While New York and Vermont Post Biggest Gains By Subcontractors USA News Provider Only eight states and the District of Columbia have recouped the severe pandemic-induced losses of construction jobs that occurred…
Pandemic Prompts Strong Demand for Housing, But Undermines Demand for Most Types of Nonresidential Projects as Retail and Office Suffer and State and Local Governments Cut Construction Budgets By Subcontractors USA News Provider Construction employment increased by 26,000 jobs in September to a total of 7,245,000, but the gains were concentrated in housing, while employment…
By Subcontractors USA News Provider The Small Business & Entrepreneurship Dept. is always looking for innovative and creative ways to increase our outreach and get more business owners to bid on County contracts or register as a supplier. One of these tools that have been effective is our social media channels and our hashtag campaign,…
By Subcontractors USA News Provider A recent report by the CDC identified over 600,000 COVID-19 cases in Texas and more than six million confirmed cases nationwide. Therefore, measures to mitigate disease transmission remain critical to slow the spread. In construction, oil and gas, manufacturing, and other related industries, there are special and unique measures necessary…
The City of Fort Worth made history this month with their Professional Engineering Design and Consultant Services RFQ. The objective of the RFQ was to identify the most competent and qualified firms from which the City may negotiate contracts for professional design services that will be necessary to complete various TPW Capital Delivery Division (CDD)…
Historically, companies will do two things when times get tough: They will curtail their training departments and sales departments. The world was not prepared for the coronavirus, and there is no denying companies are facing hard decisions. Some companies have been required to do reduction in workforce because projects have been delayed. Although halting training…
