7 Steps To Use When the Playing Field Has Changed at Permitting Centers
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…
SBA Continues To Respond To AGC Pressure To Revise Questionnaire
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…
Construction Sector Adds 51,000 Jobs in December, but Gains Are Likely Temporary as New Industry Survey Finds Widespread Pessimism for 2021
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…
Few Construction Firms Will Add Workers in 2021 as Industry Struggles With Declining Demand, Growing Number of Project Delays and Cancellations
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…
Lean on 5 Critical Tips To Obtain a Permit To Ride Construction Industry Gains in 2021
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…
Only 30 Percent of Metro Areas Add Construction Jobs in Latest 12 Months as Widespread Project Postponements and Cancellations Force Layoffs
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…
Construction Spotlight on NAMC
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…
Construction Trade Group Sues To Block Fed’s Unlawful Effort To Change Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Rules
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)…
US Construction Spending to Gain Ground Through 2024
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…
Construction Association Ready To Work With President-Elect Biden To Prepare Significant New Infrastructure & Recovery Measures
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…
15 Tips to Follow When Your Project Has Been Red-Tagged and Shut Down
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…
Navistar Virtually Breaks Ground on San Antonio Manufacturing Facility, Slated to Begin Vehicle Production Early 2022
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…
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