National construction spending rises
New construction totaled $885 billion nationally in February, up 1.2 percent from the revised January level and 7.9 percent higher than a year ago, according to a recent report from the Associated General Contractors of America. “It is encouraging to see growth in both monthly and year-over-year totals in private residential and nonresidential construction spending,” [...]
It’s a typical construction site scene: guys in hard hats huddled around a makeshift table looking over stacks of blueprints. Each subcontractor on the job has a set of those blueprints and the hundreds of pages of instructions and change orders that accompany them. Now, Bryan Construction is changing the scene. In two major projects, [...]
Continue reading …Robert Meehan has been appointed president of Bryan International LLC, a subsidiary company of Bryan Construction Inc. He will lead a team in the Middle East working on multimillion construction projects for the Colorado Springs-based firm. In June 2011, Bryan Construction was named with a group of 13 other contractors as among those that could [...]
Continue reading …When the Waldo Canyon fire raced down the ridgeline and into the Mountain Shadows neighborhood, homes were destroyed no matter what building materials were used. Houses with stucco siding, houses with redwood decks, cedar fencing, uneven irrigation and too many trees too close to the house — all went up in flames. In many cases, [...]
Continue reading …Home builders are emerging from the recession with some of the strongest sales and activity figures they’ve seen in years.
Continue reading …Phantom Canyon Brewing Company, at the corner of Pikes Peak and Cascade avenues, will begin construction next month on a two-story addition and outdoor patio on the north side of its building.
Continue reading …The Defense Department has awarded a contract worth $9.9 million for construction of a new brigade headquarters at Fort Carson. The contract was awarded to Komada LLC of Colorado Springs. The project is expected to be finished by late July 2013. No other information was immediately available. The contract was announced last week.
Continue reading …Nor’Wood Development Group will break ground on a 240-unit apartment development in Fountain on Monday.
Continue reading …The number of multi-family construction permits issued so far this year is at an eight-year high, but no one’s celebrating just yet. The Pikes Peak Regional Building Department has issued 18 permits for developers to construct 407 multi-family units so far this year, the highest number of units approved annually since 2002. In 2002 1,663 [...]
Continue reading …Penrose St. Francis Health Services is in the throes of two major construction projects, including a new medical office building just outside of the main hospital and a complete remodel of the emergency department. The bones of the new office building are already up with an estimated completion date in the spring. Westfield Developers will [...]
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