ADOT Program Attracting Women and Minorities
By Karisma Sandoval for Cronkite News The Arizona Department of Transportation is working with education and business leaders to change a dismal statistic — more than 90 percent of workers in the construction industry are men, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. ADOT is working with community college leaders and contractors to integrate more […]
Exec. Order Aims to Improve Worker Education
By Roland Murphy for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Late last week President Donald Trump issued an executive order intended to advance opportunities in education, training and program transparency for American workers. The order establishes the National Council for the American Worker and the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board, which are tasked with solving, “the new challenges […]
LMS Talks New K12 Procurement Change
By Tasha Anderson for Arizona Builder’s Exchange More than 100 people gathered at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Tempe on Thursday, July 12 for what was by far the most popular AZBEX Leading Market Series topic: the public K12 market. While most LMS events so far have covered projects that are upcoming/in the works and […]
FMI Releases Positive 2018 Growth Outlook
By Roland Murphy for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Management consulting and investment banking term FMI, which is, “dedicated exclusively to engineering and construction, infrastructure and the built environment,” has released its, “Construction Outlook First Quarter Report,” and is forecasting a 7 percent increase in total construction and engineering spending across the U.S. in 2018. For comparison, […]
AZBEX Initial Forecast Event Surprises
By Peter Madrid and AZBEX Staff for Arizona Builder’s Exchange While it was nearly a given multifamily would be king of the hill in the 2017 commercial construction landscape, many other trends the Arizona Builder’s Exchange staff uncovered in preparation for its inaugural 2018 Construction Forecast event last Friday caught both them and several industry […]
Maricopa County 2017 Bonds & Overrides
By Ricardo Cano for The Arizona Republic Voters in 22 Maricopa County school districts will decide in the Nov. 7 election whether to approve bonds and overrides – temporary, local property-tax-funded measures districts say they use to help offset longstanding cuts in state education funding. This will be the first election in which all such measures in the […]
Groups Concerned, Hopeful About Const. Jobs
By Roland Murphy for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Construction added 11,000 new jobs in May, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. While that puts the overall number at 6,881,000 – its highest point since late 2008 – leading industry groups remain concerned about the state of the labor market, particularly when it comes to […]
$20M to Help Fund New Great Hearts School
By Rebekah L. Sanders for The Arizona Republic Great Hearts Academies, a charter-school network with roughly two dozen sites in Arizona and Texas, plans to open a new campus in Maryvale in 2018. The school, which will be located near 47th Avenue and Camelback Road, will grow to serve children in grades 3-12 who graduate from Maryvale Preparatory Academy, […]
Leman Academy to Open Oro Valley Campus
By Yoohyun Jung for Arizona Daily Star Leman Academy of Excellence, a charter school that first opened in Marana in 2015, will open a new campus in Oro Valley next school year. With the new school, the Leman Academy network would be up to four schools, including one in Parker, CO. The network opened its […]