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Bob Hurley, newly elected President of the Steel & Iron Contractors Association ("S&ICA"), recently recognized Chuck Fisher for many years of service to the Association and industry. 

Mr. Fisher retires from The Ruhlin Company on June 28, concluding a 46-year career. He has served as the President of the S&ICA and as a CEA Board member for the

By Stephen Sandherr, Fox News

Watching the collapse of Wednesday’s planned infrastructure meeting between President Trump and Democratic congressional leaders, it’s easy to understand why so many voters are frustrated with Washington. Once again, we see our national leaders engaging in partisan bickering instead of addressing our nation’s real and pressing problems.

The breakdown of the infrastructure meeting is both bad policy

Georgia Gallagher & Family awarded The Bernard H. Gallagher Career & Technical Scholarships to Cameron Ekechi and Adriana Petitto in the amount of $500 each at the Parma Council of PTA's Annual Scholarship Dinner on May 15, 2019.  Both students are graduating from Parma Senior High School this year.  Cameron will be attending Kent State University to study Construction Management, and Adriana will

By Jenn Goodman, Construction Dive

The Trump administration agreed on Friday to lift its tariffs on industrial metals from Mexico and Canada in exchange for the adoption of new monitoring and enforcement measures to prevent Chinese steel from being shipped to the U.S. The U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum, imposed in March 2018, were lifted over the weekend, the Washington

Published: May, 2019; Vol 15, Num 12, Laborers' Health & Safety Fund of North America

The conversation we must have is about the difficult subject of suicide. Some people might say this isn’t a construction problem, but a people problem. Others might say this doesn’t affect them or it’s none of their business. But the uncomfortable truth is that every year, construction has more deaths by

By Rich Exner, cleveland.com

Drivers of 39,000 cars and trucks each day are going to have to find new roads to travel around a section of highway south of downtown Cleveland for the next two years.

The Ohio Department of Transportation late next month will close the half-mile stretch of Interstate 490 -- from I-77 east to East 55th Street

By Kim Slowey, Construction Dive

Developer-builder Decennial Group — a joint venture between developers Clayco and Farpoint Development — announced it will invest $1 billion in U.S. heartland opportunity zone development projects, according to a company press release. That investment, according to The Real Deal, should come in the next three years, but the company could sink as much as $20 billion into new projects

By Ginger Christ, The Plain Dealer

The MetroHealth System on Monday will break ground on the centerpiece of its $946-million transformation plan, an 11-story 264-bed hospital on its main campus on West 25th Street in Cleveland. 

The transformation project kicked off in 2014, and already has included the expansion of the system’s Critical Care Pavilion and the construction of a new parking garage

By Evan MacDonald, cleveland.com

The two construction workers were employees at Trafftech Inc. in Cleveland, and were working on the Cedar Road Reconstruction Project, Budish said in his statement. The Cuyahoga County Department of Public Works is managing the $4.5 million project, which is funded by federal money from the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency.

“We extend our deepest sympathies to Mr

By Bob Sandrick, Crain's 

More than 400 builders, craftsmen and apprentices attended the inaugural Building Excellence and Craftsmanship Awards to celebrate the construction industry and its role in Northeast Ohio.

Tim Linville, CEO of the Construction Employers Association, said the awards, held March 28 at Windows on the River in Cleveland, underscore the importance of trade apprenticeships in nurturing craftsmanship, and