By Sean Gardiner, James Campbell and Aaron Rutkoff UPDATED AT 3:05 P.M. | Nearly 20 tons of steel fell 40 stories and crashed onto a flatbed truck but caused no injuries after a crane’s cable snapped Thursday morning at the World Trade Center site, according to officials.“I heard the loud boom,” said ironworker Frank Pensabene, 24... Read More

Project Value Within GreenWizard Spiked Up $800 Million in Just the Last Four Weeks, Now Totaling $8.75 Billion.CHARLESTON, S.C., Feb 15, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- GreenWizard(R)--a cloud-based product management and project collaboration solution that simplifies building healthy, sustainable and efficient buildings--today announced that... Read More

8Elizabeth Perino leaves the Dirksen Federal Building on Tuesday after being charged in a fraud case targeting McHugh Construction and involving some of the biggest construction projects in Chicago in recent years. | Al Podgorski~Chicago Sun-TimesUpdated: February 14, 2012 2:55PM McHugh Construction — a 115-year-old Chicago g... Read More

By Brian VastagTurbines stand at the San Gorgonio Pass Wind Farm in Whitewater, Calif., on Jan. 25, 2012. (Konrad Fiedler - Bloomberg)In 2009, President Obama vowed to double the budget of the National Science Foundation. Economic reality quickly caught up with that plan, but the president’s budget request for 2... Read More

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 By: Ken TrumpAKRON, Ohio - Federal prosecutors on Friday morning continued to hammer away at former county commissioner Jimmy Dimora’s use of private contractors for free construction work on his home, patio and pool in exchange for what they say were official acts by Dimora.Nicholas Zavarella, an executive of Zavarella Brothers ... Read More

It's been hard to tell if Winter actually started! Well not only do we have some great deals on Winter gear such as Hoodys, Crew Neck, long-sleeve Ts, thermals, ect, our T shirts and Tanks are ALREADY in full swing! Have you been wanting to attend a run/walk event or have a family reunion or team sport coming up this summer? Let our te... Read More

Industry's 17.7% rate last month was worse than December's 16%, but much improved from January 2011's 22.5%.Read More at www.CrewHotSpot.com Read More

01/31/2012The Washington PostBy Victor ZapanaMontgomery County Council members met Monday to assess what they are describing as major flaws in a $101 million Silver Spring transit hub, the _blankindefinite delay in completing the structure - and who is to blame for the problems.Possible problems involving the pouring of concrete, much ... Read More

Friends, ConstructionHotSpot.comwas established byCrewHotSpot.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 visitors an outlet to promo... Read More

By Josh Levs, CNNupdated 11:01 AM EST, Sun January 29, 2012Iraqis work on a construction project in Baghdad in October 2003.STORY HIGHLIGHTSNEW: The U.S. is keeping Iraq out of the loop on some projects, report saysNEW: The U.S. Embassy in Iraq disagrees with that complaintThe Defense Department can't account for about $... Read More

February is a good time to broadcast weed preventer granuals over your lawn. Weed preventers work by killing the seeds of these weeds before or as they attempt to germinate. *Caution: If you are planning to overseed your Fescue lawn this month, or in March, do not apply pre-emergent weed preventer at this time. If you plan on... Read More

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By Tony Illia Generating electricity when the sun isn't shining has long been the Achilles' heel of the solar power industry, but a new solar project in the high Nevada desert aims to solve the dilemma by becoming the nation's first commercial solar power plant to use salt storage technology.Images courtesy of SolarReserveThe 60-ft-dia... Read More

Construction company Metro America is hiring about 60 framers in the Kennesaw area, and the Georgia Labor Department’s Cobb-Cherokee Career Center is helping. The center, at 465 Big Shanty Rd. in Northeast Cobb, will play host to a recruitment session next Tuesday from ...... more atwww.CrewHotSpot.com Read More