Chicago nonprofit recruits hundreds to apprenticeships
Construction Dive
MARCH 28, 2024
Hire360 targets recruiting minorities and women to the trades, leveraging partnerships with big name developers, contractors and unions.
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Construction Dive
MARCH 28, 2024
Hire360 targets recruiting minorities and women to the trades, leveraging partnerships with big name developers, contractors and unions.
ENR Construction
DECEMBER 5, 2023
Chicago and security contractor will not begin work on migrant camp after state Gov. Pritzker required a review by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.
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Construction Equipment
MAY 25, 2017
Chicago has one of the best passenger rail systems in the country and with the selection of Riverside Investment & Development to renovate the elderly station, riding the rails will become even better. The 1925 Beaux-Arts limestone station borders Chicago's Loop on the west side.
ENR Construction
DECEMBER 2, 2020
MKA specifies new ArcelorMittal steel products to create larger upper-level spaces in the 51-story tower and deal with site issues near Chicago Union Station.
Construction Dive
APRIL 14, 2023
The company plans to hire approximately 435 tradesworkers in coordination with local unions on the project.
ENR Construction
DECEMBER 3, 2020
MKA specifies new ArcelorMittal steel products to create larger upper-level spaces in the 51-story tower and deal with site issues near Chicago Union Station.
Construction Dive
OCTOBER 30, 2018
Chicago's city council on Wednesday will vote on this piece of the overall $1.5 billion redevelopment of the historic train station, which includes a 1.5 million-square-foot, 50-story office tower and public park.
ENR Construction
DECEMBER 11, 2019
Chicago developers, contractors, unions, the United Way and even Rahm Emanuel's last campaign manager are coming together to bring women, african-americans, latinos and other minorities into the building trades.
BD+C
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
Drake elementary school was one of 47 elementary schools decommissioned by Chicago Public Schools in 2014, due to declining student enrollment.
ENR Construction
DECEMBER 16, 2020
Canal, a 51-floor office tower under construction in Chicago’s Loop. Using 80-ksi steel in upper perimeter columns—a first in the U.S.—helped —helped the design team reduce the steel by almost 20% at 320 S.
HardHatChat
MAY 31, 2012
While there are three sides to every story, recent commercial construction news stories like this one from the Chicago Tribune , “Construction firm caught in contract probe” , really burn me up. The best Chicago construction firms play by the rules and do business above board. I don’t mean to come off as preachy, I’m just mad.
ENR Construction
AUGUST 30, 2019
The union that represents Chicago area ready-mix concrete truck drivers and owner-operators has been put into trusteeship by the Teamsters national organization. Its former president says it's part of a long-term attempt to take lucrative ready-mix contracts away from Local 786.
Construction Marketing
MARCH 13, 2018
About unions…. Tamara Rivera, a former carpenter with 24 years of experience and now a council representative for the New York City Council of Carpenters, says that unions have an effect on the types of jobs women are offered: “Women experience construction very differently on the non-union versus the union side.
HardHatChat
JULY 13, 2010
The recent Chicago City Council approval of a second Wal-Mart in the city limits is excellent news for Chicago’s commercial construction industry. All in all, Chicago general commercial construction contractors should see an uptick in work. Will there be more new-construction Wal-Marts in Chicago? in Pullman, circa 1950s.
BD+C
JULY 13, 2016
The engineering and architectural firm Arup has been selected to lead the design work for renovations to Chicago’s historic Union Station. The City of Chicago, railroad service company Amtrak, and a collection of Chicago transportation entities, including the commuter railroad service Metra, worked together on the decision.
ENR Construction
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
The merger follows a trend of reorganizing smaller districts into larger regional councils.
HardHatChat
MARCH 27, 2018
Union Considerations: As prefabricated elements and modular components become more sophisticated and more commonplace, will the shops where they are manufactured be unionized?
HardHatChat
DECEMBER 22, 2011
We saw drawings for new Chicago restaurant projects, retail construction work, office renovations, school construction and learning center additions – you name it, we saw it. If you don’t know who specializes in your line of business then start your search online with a query like “Chicago retail construction experts”.
ENR Construction
APRIL 13, 2020
Wacker, allowed a residential tower to be built atop Chicago Union Station and reimagined the Chicago River as something the buildings along it should celebrate, not turn their backs toward.
HardHatChat
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
In fact, after helping American Girl relocate their flagship stores in Chicago and New York City, we just completed our third relocation project in Los Angeles. And, of course, the desire to use union vs non-union labor can dramatically influence costs and timelines. It is something we have done time and time again.
BD+C
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
As technology manager at Chicago’s Pipe Fitters Local 597’s 200,000-square-foot training facility, Mike Zivanovic does his part to prepare Chicago pipe fitters for any and every job. With over 10,000 members in the Chicago area, 7,000 of whom go to work every day, the union is devoted to keeping their members ready for the future.
Construction Dive
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
The Building Owners and Managers Association says the law, set to go into effect in July, would give too much power to unions.
BD+C
SEPTEMBER 21, 2018
In the 30 years following the Great Fire of 1871, Chicago built 169 public schools to serve the city’s exploding population. One of these was the James Mulligan Public School, named for the Union general who led Illinois’ “Irish Brigade.” He died in 1864 of wounds sustained in the Second Battle of Kernstown, Va.
ENR Construction
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
Architect Goettsch Partners and contractor Berglund Construction use isuspended platform to deliver classic Beaux-arts restoration.
Contractor Magazine
JANUARY 21, 2015
It’s no small coincidence that William Hite, president of the United Association of Union of Plumbers, Fitters, Welders and Service Technicians (UA), received the first ever Boy Scouts of America Chicago Area Council AFL- CIO George Meany Award. After all, Meany, the award’s namesake was a plumber himself. Management Plumbing'
Pro Builder
JUNE 23, 2022
Eight counties in the Chicago metro area and six in New York made ATTOM’s recent list of the 50 most at-risk real estate markets in the nation, Realtor.com reports. The most vulnerable counties in the Chicago metro area were Cook, DeKalb, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry, and Will counties in Illinois and Lake County in Indiana.
HardHatChat
JULY 25, 2016
It’s a pretty cool ground-up commercial construction project for us because not only is it the first time we’ve worked with this national retail brand, but it’s also the very first Farm & Fleet store in the Chicago area. Louis and Los Angeles, you’re likely to have two very different experiences.
Autodesk Construction Cloud
MARCH 8, 2022
The White House states that it will drive the creation of union jobs and help grow the economy in a sustainable way that makes sure all people, including under-represented communities get ahead for decades to come. Chicago Women in Trades has been helping women move into jobs in the construction industry since 1981.
Construction and Infrastructure Law
JUNE 4, 2019
It is unlawful for unions to secondarily picket construction sites or to coercively enmesh neutral parties in the disputes that a union may have with another employer. Takeaways: The NLRB’s regional offices that are responsible for investigating unfair labor practice charges filed against unions take their direction from the GC.
ENR Construction
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
The Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters was awarded its largest-ever backpay award by the Illinois Department of Labor in ruling that a developer and two subcontractors must pay $1.1 million for violating prevailing wage law on a senior housing project in Northbrook, Ill.
Construction Equipment
MARCH 8, 2016
Sponsored by Chicago Women in Trades and North America’s Building Trades Unions, the April 29 - May 1, 2016 event will be held at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare Conference Center, Rosemont, Illinois near O'Hare.
Construction and Infrastructure Law
JUNE 4, 2019
It is unlawful for unions to secondarily picket construction sites or to coercively enmesh neutral parties in the disputes that a union may have with another employer. Takeaways: The NLRB’s regional offices that are responsible for investigating unfair labor practice charges filed against unions take their direction from the GC.
HardHatChat
APRIL 14, 2015
Last year, Englewood Construction completed the Chicago Sports Museum, an 8,000-square-foot interactive museum at the new Harry Caray’s 7th Inning Stretch in Chicago’s Water Tower Place. Last year Englewood completed the 22,928-square-foot Harry Caray’s 7th Inning Stretch at Water Tower Place on Chicago’s famed Magnificent Mile.
Viewpoint Construction Technology
APRIL 24, 2018
Likewise, Chicago Women in Trades provides training, resources and mentorship opportunities for women in Illinois interested in becoming bricklayers, carpenters, electricians and other skilled workers. And the Iron Workers, in April 2017, became the first building trades union to offer up to eight months of paid maternity leave.
Autodesk Construction Cloud
APRIL 26, 2022
From Chicago to London, May is full of virtual and in-person construction events worth attending. It takes place at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square this year. American Manufacturing Summit (Chicago, IL). Get more details. May 25 – 26, 2022.
HardHatChat
APRIL 12, 2016
The other day I was talking with a Chicago-area client who didn’t realize Englewood is a national general contractor that manages national commercial construction projects across the country. He asked me, “You only have offices in Chicago, right? So how does that work?”.
The Korte Company
AUGUST 2, 2023
She’d graduated with an accounting degree at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, worked at a Big 8 public accounting firm, passed the CPA exam and learned the ins and outs of construction accounting at Pepper Construction in Chicago. Louis Union Station and even a $21 million job for NASA. Vernon , St. They didn’t.
Buisness Facilities Contributed Content
MAY 10, 2016
Located in Will County, less than 40 miles southwest of downtown Chicago, RidgePort Logistics Center is a developing 14 million-square-foot rail-served park situated on more than 1,500 acres. Relocating or Expanding Your Business In Illinois.
Viewpoint Construction Technology
APRIL 30, 2019
Green rooftops on skyscrapers, like this one in downtown Chicago, may soon be required in New York City. Tragedy struck last week in Seattle as a crane being dismantled at a new Google campus in the city’s South Lake Union neighborhood crashed to the ground , killing two crane operators and two others on the street below.
Buisness Facilities Contributed Content
MAY 25, 2016
A Massachusetts food processor is opening a factory in northwest suburban Wheeling, bringing more than 125 new jobs to the state, according to a report in Crain’s Chicago Business. Primetime hits Empire (FOX), Chicago Fire and Chicago PD (NBC) returned for their latest seasons, adding Chicago Med to the lineup.
Autodesk Construction Cloud
JANUARY 6, 2022
CMAA Focus (Chicago, IL). CMAA Focus 2022 will take place at the Renaissance Chicago in Downtown Chicago. It takes place at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square this year. AIA Conference on Architecture 2022 (Chicago, IL). Find out at AIA Conference on Architecture, coming to Chicago in June of 2022.
Business Facilities
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
L ast year, Chicago celebrated the highly anticipated grand opening of the new UI Labs Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII) on Goose Island. Last year’s groundbreaking on the project was an exciting one for Goose Island, which is quickly becoming known as an important tech hub within Chicago.
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