Digging for Dirt
National nonresidential construction spending increased 0.9% on a monthly basis in January 2021 but is down 5% since January 2020, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data published today by the U.S. Census Bureau. On a seasonally adjusted annualized […]
Colorado’s congested and deteriorated transportation network threatens to diminish quality of life and hamper economic growth and recovery in one of the fastest growing states in the nation, according to a new report released today by TRIP, a Washington, DC-based national transportation research […]
* From the 17th Century to the 20th? Maybe the 21st?: FERC announced it will hold a workshop next month to take public comments on establishing an “Office of Public Participation” which would ‘‘coordinate assistance to the public with respect to […]
Mindful Management of Waste Can Negate Negative Environmental Impacts
By Shannon Bergstrom
There was an estimated 600 million tons of construction and demolition (C&D) waste generated in the United States in 2018 alone, which is more than double the amount of Municipal […]
The Pandemic Has Been the Economic Equivalent of a Magnitude 9 Earthquake
The longest U.S. economic expansion since the end of the Second World War came to an abrupt end earlier this year as the COVID-19 pandemic essentially shut down the […]