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More funding needed to boost construction jobs for young people - housing boss
A long-term plan and additional funding is needed to create more placements for young people within the construction industry, according to one housing association boss. Iwan Trefor Jones, chief executive at Adra, said it was important that…
Businessman linked to hospital construction scandal on trial accused of fraud
A businessman linked to Scotland's hospital construction scandal is to stand trial accused of a £673,509 fraud. Gordon Dunne's Dunne Group Ltd was given multi-million-pound public contracts for ground works at Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth…
Promising Construction Stocks To Add to Your Watchlist - September 6th
5 Reasons the S&P 500 Could Keep Rallying Through Year-End Caterpillar, Sunbelt Rentals Holdings, Inc. Common Stock, Deere & Company, Planet Labs PBC, Lowe's Companies, Comfort Systems USA, and Quanta Services are the seven Construction stocks to…
Bessent predicts oil prices could drop as low as $40 after Iran conflict ends and supply floods market
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent predicted oil prices could fall to between $40 and $50 per barrel once the Iran conflict ends, arguing that abundant supply is poised to hit the market after constraints ease. Bessent asserted that the American…
Everus Construction Group, Inc. $ECG Shares Sold by B. Metzler seel. Sohn & Co. AG
B. Metzler seel. Sohn & Co. AG lessened its stake in Everus Construction Group, Inc. (NYSE:ECG - Free Report) by 69.2% in the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm…
AI data centers are transforming rural land markets - and fueling a backlash
Data centers are being built across the country as Wall Street invests billions in the computing buildout for artificial intelligence. It's driving up the price of rural land as some farmers and property owners buy in and others push back against…
Trump should make future site of space academy earn it
Five places deserve serious consideration: Colorado Springs begins with the most obvious advantage: the Space Force is already there. The region contains some of America's most important military space infrastructure and is home to the Air Force…
Brisbane waterfront approved for 2,200 homes but none affordable
Topic:Housing Construction Industry Queensland's deputy premier says he's 'pulling every lever possible' to relieve the housing crisis after confirming a 13-tower development on the 'last vacant lot' northside of the Brisbane river won't have…
Industrial Stocks To Consider - September 6th
Vertiv's UIG Deal Targets the Next Big Constraint in AI Data Centers Bloom Energy, Caterpillar, Sunbelt Rentals Holdings, Inc. Common Stock, Coherent, GE Vernova, Uber Technologies, and American Airlines Group are the seven Industrial stocks to…
Sanders pushes 'death penalty' for crucial US industry that could give advantage to foreign adversaries
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, introduced legislation Thursday seeking to hit American artificial intelligence developers with a 'corporate death penalty' and up to 20 years in prison— a move critics warn will hand…
The world is being driven to the brink by thugs and dictators, but there is a route to a brighter future | Simon Tisdall
Don't look up! The world is a mess. The sky could fall in any day. Unending wars, expanding humanitarian crises, rising authoritarianism, dysfunctional democracies, rampant racial and religious extremism, and unchecked lawlessness cast a dark cloud…
Trump says White House helipad work is done after August project restart
President Trump on Sunday announced that the White House helipad, which was redone at his request last month, has been completed. Trump posted a photo of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower on the White House lawn before departing in an Air Force…
Twelve Companies Make DOE's Latest Nuclear Launch Pad Cut
The DOE's National Reactor Innovation Center announced 12 companies covering 13 projects for its latest Nuclear Energy Launch Pad (NELP) round on August 24th. Similar to the project coverage from the first round, this new group also spans multiple…
These are the people tasked with keeping Maine's potato industry healthy
As the calendar inches toward fall, hundreds of Maine farms are preparing for the grueling weekslong marathon that is the potato harvest. They'll work sunup to sundown, for six or seven days a week, to extract some 1.7 billion pounds of potatoes…
Autonomous excavators are digging with empty cabs
If you have ever driven past a construction site and watched an excavator moving huge piles of dirt, you probably figured there was an experienced operator sitting in the cab. On some job sites in Texas and Nevada, there is nobody in that seat. San…
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