WASHINGTON, D.C.  •  U.S.-made construction and farm machinery exports increase•  ‘Export sales continue to help U.S. construction equipment manufacturers stay open for business’There are two more signs that the U.S. economy is on the road to recovery.U.S. construction equipment exports increased 43 percent in 2011 compa... Read More

Construction employment is on the rise in Arizona and across the U.S., according to an economist who spoke Tuesday at a national construction-industry convention in Phoenix. In 2011, Arizona construction jobs increased by 1.6 percent, the 11th-highest increase among the 50 states and the District of Columbia, according to Anirban Basu,... Read More

By Anna-Louise Jackson and Anthony Feld Bloomberg.com Construction hiring is picking up as Americans invest in renovating their homes amid signs that the worst of the housing-market declines may be over. The number of people working in residential remodeling grew 5.8 percent in December to 250,700 from a year earlier, based on prelimin... Read More

Wright Express Releases Monthly Construction Fuel Consumption Index (FCI) ResultsU.S. Construction Industry Fueling Down 3.4% Year-Over-Year in January; Down 2.1% vs. Previous MonthSOUTH PORTLAND, Maine, Feb 22, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Wright Express Corporation WXS +0.14% , a leading global provider of value-based busin... Read More

U.S. Construction Industry Fueling Down 3.4% Year-Over-Year in January; Down 2.1% vs. Previous MonthSOUTH PORTLAND, Maine, Feb 22, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Wright Express Corporation WXS +0.14% , a leading global provider of value-based business payment processing and information management solutions, in collaboration wit... Read More

By RYAN DEZEMBER Construction and engineering company URS Corp. agreed to buy a Canadian oil-field-services company for $1.25 billion, stepping up the U.S. company's exposure to the North American drilling boom. URS, based in San Francisco, said it agreed to pay 25 Canadian dollars (US$25) a share for Flint Energy Services Ltd., w... Read More

Most stimulus spending in Ohio last year went to supplementing public assistance programs for the poor, according to a Central Ohio.com analysis of data gathered by nonprofit investigative news agency ProPublica. The $840 billion American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009 turned three years old Friday. By all accounts, it is windin... Read More

Most stimulus spending in Ohio last year went to supplementing public assistance programs for the poor, according to a Central Ohio.com analysis of data gathered by nonprofit investigative news agency ProPublica. The $840 billion American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009 turned three years old Friday. By all accounts, it is windin... Read More

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Things keep looking up for the construction industry. New construction starts in January were 10 percent higher than one year ago. Confidence among builders jumped this month to the highest level in four years, even though it's way below where it was before and during the housing boom. And construction jobs are on the rise to... Read More

Errin Haines and Jeff Martin, The Associated Press  ATLANTA (AP) — Caterpillar said Friday that it plans to build a new manufacturing facility in Georgia, a project company officials say will create more than 4,200 U.S. jobs. The 1-million-square-foot facility near Athens is expected to directly employ 1,40... Read More

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Friends, http://ConstructionHotSpot.com was established by http://CrewHotSpot.com (The Construction Network), to fill a need for a website that offers its visitors a one stop source for "Construction Classifieds"! It offers its visitors four badly needed search categories.  Categories:  (Construction Flea Market) Offers ... Read More

(Updates with economist’s comment in fourth paragraph.) Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Builders broke ground on more homes than forecast in January, helped by warmer weather and adding to signs the U.S. residential real estate market is stabilizing. Starts rose 1.5 percent to a 699,000 annual rate from December’s 689,000 pace that was stronger... Read More