The construction industry added 21,000 jobs in January, as a second consecutive month of unseasonably mild-winter weather helped the industry raise employment to a two-year high, according to an analysis of new federal employment data released by the Associated General Contractors of America. Association officials cautioned that the gains remain fragile amid declining public sector investments in construction and infrastructure.
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Construction equipment manufacturers anticipate overall business to close out 2011 with double-digit increases over last year in the U.S., Canada and worldwide. Growth is expected to continue but at a slower pace for 2012 through 2014, according to the annual business outlook survey of the Association of Equipment Manufacturers.
AEM is the North American-based international trade group representing the off-road equipment manufacturing industry. Each year the association polls its construction equipment manufacturer members about anticipated sales of the machines and equipment that build and repair roads, bridges, houses, offices, schools and other infrastructure worldwide.
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Demolition of St. John’s Mercy in Joplin underway
 JOPLIN, Mo. -- In a dual demolition and groundbreaking ceremony, a wrecking ball took the first hit in bringing down Mercy's Joplin hospital that was struck by an EF5 tornado last May. Mercy also broke ground on the new hospital that will open in early 2015.
“It’s hard to say goodbye to the building that has been St. John’s since 1968,” said Gary Pulsipher, president of St. John’s Mercy. “But like the rest of the city, we are glad to be moving ahead and looking to the future. While we will never forget what happened here, taking down the hospital is another step in the process of removing the visible signs of the tornado’s devastation from the landscape.”
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 LA JOLLA, Calif. -- An enormous crane weighing nearly 320 tons with a boom able to reach farther than a football field has arrived for duty on the campus of Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla. The crane signifies the next phase in construction of the Scripps Prebys Cardiovascular Institute as crews begin placing the 5,900 tons of steel that will be used to form the structure of the 168-bed hospital tower.
A Liebherr model LJ1300 crawler crane, which was delivered to the building site on Jan. 17 on 17 trailer trucks, was immediately assembled and began placing the first steel beams on Jan. 20. The crane, which will be used to erect seven stories of structural steel, will remain on the site for the next four months.
The crane features a multi-sectioned, rigging boom that can extend up to 322 feet and is capable of lifting up to 300 tons. The largest steel component to be lifted by the crane is a single steel column that is two-and-a-half stories tall, weighing 61,000 pounds.
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Construction employment increased in 148 out of 337 metropolitan areas between December 2010 and December 2011, decreased in 128 and stayed level in 61, according to a new analysis of federal employment data released by the Associated General Contractors of America. The construction employment increases were likely fueled by a 4.3 percent increase in total construction spending between December 2010 and December 2011, driven largely by growing private-sector demand, association officials noted.
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ATLANTA, Ga.-- Changes to help make buildings and systems more sustainable are part of the newly published version of the high-performance green building standard from ASHRAE, the U.S. Green Building Council and the Illuminating Engineering Society
ANSI/ASHRAE/USGBC/IES Standard 189.1-2011, Standard for the Design of High-Performance, Green Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings, provides a green-building foundation for those who strive to design, build and operate high-performance buildings. It covers key topic areas of site sustainability, water-use efficiency, energy efficiency, indoor environmental quality and the building’s impact on the atmosphere, materials and resources. When first introduced in 2009, the standard was the first code-intended commercial green-building standard in the United States.
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Construction employment rose in 28 states and the District of Columbia between December 2010 and December 2011, the largest number of states with year-over-year employment gains since November 2007, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of Labor Department data. In contrast, 24 states plus D.C. lost jobs between November and December 2011, while 23 states added construction jobs for the month.
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