Thu February 04, 2016
Program Created to Expose More Women to Construction Work
WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Stevie Medina might have felt as if she were building a new world. She may yet. The seat she occupied rumbled and jerked, as she worked the controls of a virtual excavator. "It does shake," she said, half-smiling as she maneuvered levers on either side of her chair....
Bob Christie - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thu January 28, 2016
On Second Thought . . .Cutting Funds For This Wasn't A Good Idea
PHOENIX (AP) Veto-proof majorities in both the Arizona House and Senate have signed on as sponsors of a bill repealing a $30 million cut to high school career and technical education programs. The cut enacted in the current year budget takes effect on July 1 and many of the 14 stand-alone districts that oversee the programs say they will be badly hurt if they lost the money....
Fri January 22, 2016
AEM Launches $150,000 Competition
The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) announced the Infrastructure Vision 2050 Challenge — a three-phased, crowd-sourced competition to award a total of $150,000 in prizes for innovative ideas to overhaul the crumbling infrastructure that Americans rely upon to move people, materials, products, services and information....
Wed October 21, 2015
Program Teaches Young Adults Industry, Fights Blight
DETROIT (AP) A group of young adults is learning about the construction trade and helping Detroit in its battle against neighborhood blight by boarding up vacant schools across the city. About 40 people in the city’s Opportunity Detroit Youth & Trades Board-Up Program have spent the summer securing doors and windows at 23 buildings, the Detroit Free Press reported....
Wed September 30, 2015
GUCA Scholarship Foundation Awards Members’ Children
The GUCA Scholarship Foundation announced the following scholarships awarded to GUCA members’ children. Recipients of the 2015 scholarships include categories of industry and high school. The GUCA Foundation Industry scholarship of $2,000 was presented to Christopher Blake Stalnaker, the son of Cheryl and Scott Stalnaker, John R....
GREG FORBES - Sioux City Journal - Wed September 23, 2015
Simulation Home Gives Students Real-Life Construction Skills
SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (AP) - The old adage ”Home is where you make it’ is being taken quite literally in a South Sioux City High School shop class. Members of Intro to Construction, Construction I and Advanced Construction have been assigned the task of building a modular simulation home from the ground up....
Mon August 31, 2015
TBEI Lake Crystal Facility Renews ISO 9001:2008 Cert.
Truck Bodies & Equipment International, Inc. (TBEI) announced that its Lake Crystal, Minn., facility has successfully renewed its ISO 9001:2008 certification. The Lake Crystal facility is home to TBEI’s corporate offices, and manufactures Crysteel, J-Craft and Ox SuperDump products....
Fri August 14, 2015
BCA Awards 2015 Presidential Merit Scholarships
Building Contractors Association of Northeast Indiana (BCA) recently announced the winners of its 2015 Presidential Merit Scholarships. These $1,500 scholarships were created to recognize significant accomplishments and reward worthy students in furthering their education in a construction-related college degree program....
Thu April 23, 2015
Fallen Highway Workers’ Children Earn ARTBA Scholarship
Ten children of highway workers killed or permanently disabled on the job will receive college financial assistance from the American Road & Transportation Builders Association Transportation Development Foundation’s (ARTBA-TDF) “Lanford Family Highway Worker Memorial Scholarship” fund....
VICTORIA BERKOW - (Peoria) Journal Star - Tue March 31, 2015
Peoria Museum Offers Look at Engineering
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) - Staring at a dusty terrain ahead, sloping with muddy hills and peppered with trees, Brendan Patterson gripped the wheel of his dozer and prepared to charge forward. The 11-year-old from East Peoria may not be old enough to legally drive, but fortunately he was steering and moving the dozer’s ripper in a Caterpillar simulator....
