Genie invites customers to ask questions and get answers about the significance and importance of safety and productivity accessories for aerial equipment, including mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs), such as boom lifts and scissor lifts, and vertical mast lifts during its upcoming “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) event, August 19-23, 2019. 

In support of OSHA’s Safe and Sound Week, August 12-18, Genie shares a new resource that raise awareness about the new training requirements for use of mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs) in the United States. 

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), released a new report, LEED in Motion: Residential, showing the growing green trends in the homes market. 

Oldcastle APG, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Abbotsford Concrete Products, enhancing APG’s customer experience by expanding product offerings and manufacturing capabilities in its western Canadian region.

Simpson Strong-Tie has secured seismic code listing of its high-performance FRCM fabric-reinforced cementitious matrix and FRP fiber-reinforced polymer solutions for the reinforcement and strengthening of concrete and masonry structures.

Kingspan Insulated Panels announces that Quincy McBride has joined the company as the new director of marketing for North America.

Grabber Construction Products is pleased to announce Joe Schaeper is joining their Product Category Management team as the company’s newest Product Category Manager. 

Construction spending declined in June from May 2019 and June 2018 levels, but most categories other than single-family homebuilding ended the first half of the year ahead of the year-to-date totals for 2018, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of new federal spending data. 

Buck Buchanan, veteran of the EIFS and construction products industry has written his second book.

Construction employment increased by 4,000 jobs in July and by 202,000, or 2.8 percent, over the past 12 months, while the number of unemployed jobseekers with construction experience rose, according to an analysis of new government data by the Associated General Contractors of America.