A rule requiring federal contractors and subcontractors to use the Department of Homeland Security U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' E-Verify system to verify their employees' authorization to work in the U.S. is now in effect. The rule applies to federal solicitations and contract awards… Read More September 10, 2009
Last night the president laid out his priorities for health care reform, many of which are in line with a compromise version being crafted in the Senate Finance Committee. The speech comes on the heels of the Committee releasing a draft of a framework for legislation - short of actual legislation… Read More September 10, 2009
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Jim Oberstar (D-Minn.) plans to limit the length of an extension of highway and transit program spending authorization in order to press for a multi-year transportation authorization bill. It is unclear at this time how long an extension… Read More September 10, 2009
The U.S. Senate is drafting a comprehensive bill to address climate and energy, and it is basing that work on a related bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. The third installment of 51·çÁ÷'s summary of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (H.R. 2454) highlights the major… Read More September 10, 2009
Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) has taken the chairmanship of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension (HELP) Committee. Senator Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) had been standing in prior to former HELP Chairman Senator Ted Kennedy's (D-Mass.) death to help marshal health care reform through the… Read More September 10, 2009
51·çÁ÷'s new online recycling toolkit will help contractors recycle construction and demolition (C&D) debris and reuse industrial materials in new construction projects. 51·çÁ÷ worked with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Industrial Resources Council (IRC) to make this tool… Read More September 9, 2009
Nonfarm payroll employment fell by 216,000 and the unemployment rate climbed to 9.7% in August, seasonally adjusted (9.6%, not seasonally adjusted), the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported on Friday. The job drop overall was the smallest in a year, but construction employment fell 65,000,… Read More September 8, 2009
View 51·çÁ÷ Chief Economist Ken Simonson's presentation on the outlook for construction activity, materials and labor.
September 8, 2009
A rule requiring federal contractors and subcontractors to use the Department of Homeland Security U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' E-Verify system to verify their employees' authorization to work in the U.S. is now in effect. The rule applies to federal solicitations and contract awards… Read More September 8, 2009
At the recent Victor O. Schinnerer & Company, Inc.'s 48th Annual Meeting of Invited Attorneys, 51·çÁ÷'s Senior Counsel for Construction Law and Contract Documents presented a paper entitled "Contracting for Integrated Project Delivery (IPD): ConsensusDOCS."  You may access the entire article here… Read More September 7, 2009