Brand Industrial Services, known as BrandSafway, has acquired Lyndon Scaffolding, along with Taylor’s Hoists (acquired by Lyndon in 2017), effective December 31, 2018. 

Construction employment increased by 38,000 jobs in December and by 280,000 jobs, or 4.0 percent, over the past year, while the industry's average pay accelerated and unemployment decreased to a historic low

Owens Corning (NYSE: OC) announced that its Board of Directors elected Brian D. Chambers, 52, current President and Chief Operating Officer (COO), to succeed Mike Thaman as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) 

The Metal Construction Association (MCA) has updated its white paper, "Choosing Between Fire Retardant and Standard Core Metal Composite Material" and made it available as a free download on their website

Raths, Raths & Johnson, Inc. (RRJ), a national engineering, architecture and forensics consulting firm headquartered in Willowbrook, Illinois is pleased to announce that Lurita McIntosh Blank

Deltek announced that it has acquired Avitru. Together, Deltek and Avitru will provide unmatched solutions and services to architects, engineers, contractors, owners and building product manufacturers. 

Seventy-nine percent of construction firms plan to expand their payrolls in 2019 but an almost equal percentage are worried about their ability to locate and hire qualified workers, according to survey results released today by the Associated General Contractors of America and Sage Construction and Real Estate. 

Construction employment grew in 265, or 74 percent, out of 358 metro areas between November 2017 and November 2018, declined in 45 and was unchanged in 48, according to a new analysis of federal employment data released today by the Associated General Contractors of America. 

Developers of the $2.5 billion TSX Broadway project in New York City's Times Square announced that the development has been fully funded and is on target for a January 2019 groundbreaking.

Heath Slawner of the Simon Sinek organization will present the keynote speech titled “Start with Why” at the 2019 EIMA Annual Meeting to be held on March 20-22 at The Woodlands Resort, located just north of Houston, Texas.