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The article offers news briefs related to the construction industry in Southeast U.S. as of September 3, 2018. Topics include the plans of International Paper Co. to convert its paper machine at its Riverdale Mill in Selma, the plans of NextEra Energy Inc. to construct the Westlake Solar Energy Center, and the plans of the North Carolina Dept. of Transportation to improve the U.S. Route 17 Hampstead Bypass.

The article offers news briefs related to construction. Topics mentioned include the plan of privately-owned Chinese papermaking company Sun Paper to build a paper mill, the planned construction of a milk dehydrating plant of nutrition firm Progressive Dairy Solution Inc. and the renovation of the ADP Call Center in Norfolk headed by construction company Hourigan Construction Corp.

The article offers information products related to the sand and gravel industry including the FilterSense Model DP 20T pressure transmitter, the JetbLack blower-powered personnel de-dusting unit from Air Control Industries, and the Touch Bag industrial paper bag from Mondi.

The article focuses on the probable end to the paper trail in almost all electronic transactions in the U.S. Once considered unimaginably distant, the goal now is within sight. It is achievable, practical and even supported by federal law--the Government Paperwork Elimination Act of 1998 in the U.S. It requires federal agencies to maintain records digitally and give people and companies the option of exchanging forms and submitting information electronically, when practicable, "as a substitution for paper." Some sectors of the economy, particularly those like financial institutions with well organized regulations and standards, are well down the trail toward total electronic transactions and running like mad toward the white light of business salvation. But even construction now is getting a spring in its step, enabled by increasing use of secure document formats like PDFs that can carry embedded controls for viewing, forwarding and printing.

The article reports on the leading economic indicators in the U.S. for October and November 2011. It says that although production fell in construction materials, primary metals and petroleum refining, this was offset by rising output levels in paper and plastics. It adds that overall industrial production rose in October with building permits showing the greatest gains in the multi-family construction segment.

Reports on the performance of the pulp and paper plant construction industry in the United States as of May 1999. Shut down plan of Georgia-Pacific Group; Views on capital spending; Plant upgrade made by Alliance Forest Products.

The article deals with a probe conducted by Caltrans concerning the structural soundness of the self-anchored suspension-span foundation of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in 2011. The California Department of Transportation claims that one of its technical engineers may have falsified data regarding the infrastructure. Caltrans director Malcolm Dougherty Tony Anziano says that it has launched an investigation and found that the bridge's safety is not an issue.

The article reports that a former management consultant, Leigh Jasper, and a former building-industry manager, Robert Phillpot, established a document managing company called Aconex and are helping construction companies keep track of their documents. They hatched the idea for a document management technology for the construction industry. Aconex has been successful against international competitors because the software was easier to use the company had very high service levels.

This article reports that a Florida engineering services firm has built a system to automate distribution of its construction materials testing reports electronically. "We wanted to create a product to save us money and create a service for our customers," says Greg Edmonds, CEO of Ellis & Associates, Jacksonville. Edmonds says the company spent a year with a consultant developing "E-Reports." It uses e-mail to alert clients when reports are posted to their Web-accessible accounts. Clicking on a link in the e-mail brings a list of reports that also note whether they passed or failed. Clicking on a title opens a secure, digitally signed PDF version of the full report that can be examined, archived, routed to a pre-set distribution list — or even printed.

This article reports that already at a weakened state in 2003, the manufacturing-construction sector slipped further in the first half of this year. Most industrial-process-related construction markets remain weak, due to a variety of factors ranging from more stringent government regulations, rising energy prices and continued uncertainty about the U.S. economy. But the food-processing and pharmaceutical parts of the sector remain relatively robust, or at least look strong compared to chemical, steel and pulp and paper. According to the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, the value of factories and other manufacturing facilities put in place in this year's January-through-June period totaled $6.745 billion, down 2.6% from $6.925 billion in the same period last year.

This article presents information on Technology in Construction conference in Orlando, Florida, in January 2004. designers posed that question to each other about building information modeling (BIM), long billed as the technological sine qua non for efficient and cost-effective design and construction. But most designers, it seems, are taking a wait-and-see attitude about BIM--interested in its benefits, but hesitant to adopt it unless assured of Building information modeling (BIM) is the latest rebranding of a 25-year-old idea that architects should create intelligent 3D models instead of paper drawings to communicate design ideas and guide construction.

Industrial process construction has traditionally mirrored the industry's own cyclicality from year to year, sometimes up and sometimes down. Engineers in the U.S. are finding current and prospective markets for pharmaceutical design to be one of the best in some time. Biotechnology sector observers see other work generated by a resurgence of interest in manufacturing active drug ingredients that can allow pharmaceutical companies to produce medicine from basic chemicals. Among traditional sectors, pulp and paper continues to slump, with plant spending down from $15 billion a year at its peak in the early 1990's to $3 billion to $4 billion in the last few years. Generally, the hub of processed food distribution is moving west from Chicago, Illinois and Indianapolis, Indiana, toward Texas, Arkansas and Missouri. Steel is another market that must upgrade technology, says Andy Kapusta, Lockwood Greene's steel sector director. As technology changes worldwide, plants must improve to stay competitive, he adds.

The article presents views of Larry Rooney, president at construction firm Manhattan Construction Group, on construction industry in Oklahoma and construction projects underway across several sectors. Topics discussed include project in Sofidel paper products manufacturing facility, projects of Manhattan Construction and challenges of labor supply.

Reports on developments in the architectural construction industry in the United States. Implications of the cancellation of plans to locate Disney's America near the Civil War Masassas battlefield in Virginia; Replacement of `Memo' by `AIA Architect,' as the American Institute of Architects' paper; Decline in the construction of skyscrapers from the 1980s to the 1990s.

Large manufacturing and powerplant projects combined with a red-hot housing market to boost total construction starts 3% in March to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $537.2 billion, according to McGraw-Hill Construction Dodge. On a year-to-date basis, total construction in the first quarter was 7% ahead of a year ago, including an 18% jump in residential construction. A $100-million food processing plant and a $40-million paper mill project boosted manufacturing starts 31% in March, helping to bring the nonresidential market to within 3% of 2003's level.

Deals with the publication of a paper designed to help companies avoid pitfalls in international construction projects by the construction committee of the Business Roundtable. Basis of the published paper; Topics addressed by the paper; Issues of concern to the Business Roundtable.

Forecasts the global expansion of the United States industrial contracting business. Design and construction in the hydrocarbon and petrochemical sector; Refinery demand; Increased demand for environmental services; Outlook for the pulp and paper market; Chemical and allied products market; Green field construction.

The article offers information on several trade literature and catalogs for construction industry. It states the 30-page guide from Onset entitled "The Facility Manager's Guide to Data Logging" which provides monitoring strategies and techniques for building professionals who find ways to optimize facility performance and reduce energy consumption. It adds the white paper from Carrier titled "Induction Beams: Engineered Comfort for Today's Buildings."

The article presents information on the opportunity posed by greyfields to construction companies, builders and urban renewal in Australia, as indicated in a discussion paper that was commissioned by the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute in 2011.

The article reports on the key trends driving megafirm creation as identified by researchers Alexandra Brown and Scott Mickle in their research paper "Supersized Competition: What You Need to Know About the Creation of A/E/C Megafirms," discussed on July 15, 2010 at the Society for Marketing Professional Services conference in Boston, Massachusetts and funded by the SMPS Foundation.

The article offers information on the first Zinio format digital magazine of "ENR: Engineering News-Record." It states that a selection of the magazine's construction photography contest winners will be displayed in the digital magazine. Zinio is a digital publishing format that gives electronic magazines the appearance of paper magazines but with added functionality. It is inferred that the next two issues of "ENR" will be produced in this format.

The article reports on news items concerning the engineering and building automation sectors as of June 2006. WAGO Corp. has released a white paper titled "Internet Access in a Process Control Environment." Siemens Energy & Automation Inc. has signed an asset and purchase agreement to acquire the assets and business of Controlotron Corp. Butterworth-Heinemann, a division of Elsevier, has released the book "Ventilation for Environmental Tobacco Smoke," by Brian A. Rock.

The article presents several news related to the construction industry. KBR Inc., Houston, has filed registration papers with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public stock offering, the first step by parent Halliburton Co. to spin off the engineering and construction giant. Fru-Con Construction Corp., Ballwin, Missouri, has settled wrongful death claims by the estates of three of the four workers killed in a 2004 crane collapse on the Maumee River Bridge project, according to documents obtained by the Toledo Blade newspaper. Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport received Federal approval on April 14 to proceed with a $2-billion airport enhancement program.

The article presents information on several developments related to the construction industry in the U.S. Diversified energy, chemical and paper and investment conglomerate Koch Industries Inc. has made a substantial offer to purchase Atlanta-based Georgia-Pacific Corp. for $21 billion, including debt. Marathon Oil Corp. plans to invest $2.2-billion to increase the current crude capacity at its 245,000-barrel-per-day Garyville, Louisiana, refinery by 180,000 bbl per day, to 425,000. BSC, a Boston-based multidisciplinary engineering, planning and environmental consulting firm, recently announced that it has acquired Rice & Associates Inc., an engineering consulting firm.

The article reports that about a year after reaching consensus on initiatives to increase market share and make union construction more profitable, the Construction Users Roundtable Tripartite Initiative has issued its first position papers on eliminating jurisdictional disputes, reducing absenteeism and ending excessive overtime. The CURT Tripartite Initiative includes dozens of owners, 15 international construction unions and representatives from six contractor groups. The departure of the teamsters' union from the AFL-CIO and the carpenters' decision not to reaffiliate means that both unions will be ousted from BCTD.

The paper presents reply to the article "Employment Growth is Leveling Off," published in the November, 2003 issue of the journal Engineering News-Records. Instead of allowing readers to draw conclusions about the strength of the construction industry versus the strength of construction unions, the mismatched time periods only serve to mislead the reader and allow the data to be misused. Membership numbers reported to the American Federation of Labor (AFL) do not reflect a union's total membership, but instead only reflect the number of U.S. members that a union made per capita payments on to the AFL at a given time.

A new type of abuse-resistant interior wall panel that offers protection from moisture and mold is featured in the brochure "Rock-Solid Interior Panel: Mold-Resistant." The product called as Fiberock Brand Aqua-Tough, is engineered to provide increased resistance to abuse while outperforming paper-faced or glass-mat-faced panels, according to the brochure.

Presents news briefs about the construction industry in the United States (US) as of March 27, 2000. March 14, 2000 explosion at the Bowater Inc. paper plant in Rock Hill, South Carolina; Increase in funds for US airport construction; Schedule for the resumption of construction of Chicago's Grand Pier project in Illinois.

Presents news and information on the construction industry in the United States as of May 1999. Intervention of the American Road and Transportation Builders Association in road construction projects in Atlanta, Georgia; Acquisition of Simons International Corp. by Agra Inc.; Plans of Alliance Forest Products Inc. for its paper mill.

Reports that mechanical and electrical engineers are leading the construction industry's adoption of information technology in Great Britain, according to a report from the Barbour Index information services group. Construction industry's use of paper-based systems for data storage.

Focuses on factors affecting excellence of construction projects according to a paper released by the Business Roundtable. Average project return on investment by companies using the best new-age project practices; Analysis of a database of industrial projects worth $300 billion developed by the Independent Project Analysis; Project definition stage as the key to success or failure of the projects.

Presents news updates on the construction industry in the United States as of June 23, 1997. Conviction of Chicago Alderman Jesse Evans on corruption charges; Law passed requiring bleached kraft paper mills to reduce dioxin discharges to nondetect by 2002.

Cites Department of Agriculture researcher Ron Buckhalt's report on companies that are increasingly using recycled wood and paper in the development of structural, composite and panel products. Agriboard Industries LC; Enviro-Comp; Gridcore Systems International; Phenix Biocomposites; PrimeBoard Inc.

Reports on developments about the construction industry in the United States. Completion of structural repairs at Interstate 85 bridge; American Forest & Paper Association's comment on the US Environmental Protection Agency's proposed cluster rules; Settlement to clean up Superfund site in Milford, New Hampshire.

Reports on research consortium Construction Industry Institute's (CII) joint effort with the Associated Builders and Contractors and the Mechanical Contractors Association of America. CII's struggle to move research beyond members; Signatories to partnership papers; Richard L. Tucker as CII director.

A new 7 ¼-inches circular saw, designated R3200, features a number of notable enhancements. These include magnesium blade guards, a quick release bypass button allowing cuts up to 51.5 ° and the maker's exclusive 12-ft all-rubber cord package. The saw is equipped with a 15-amp motor, operating at speeds up to 5,800 rpm. It offers a more accurate cut as a result of the full-length kerf indicator. This added feature makes it easier for the user to view and follow the indicator, says the maker RIDGID Inc.