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4 Commercial Construction Industry Trends and Predictions for 2019

HardHatChat

I recently attended a senior housing conference in Chicago where a panelist discussed the challenge senior housing operators face in hiring and retaining caregivers and other staff given the high hourly wages offered by employers like Amazon. Developers Think Outside the Big Box to Fill Retail Vacancies.

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Retail: Alive and Kicking

Business Facilities

Reports of the death of the retail sector—a fate that was widely assumed to be the outcome of an exponential increase in online purchases of consumer goods—were more than a bit premature. Read: Retail: Alive and Kicking at BusinessFacilities.com.

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What Happens in Vegas, Doesn’t Stay in Vegas: Retail Construction Trends from ICSC RECon 2019

HardHatChat

Last month, our Englewood Construction business development team had a great trip to Las Vegas for RECon, the global retail real estate convention hosted annually by the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC). It was refreshing to hear RECon attendees be so open to new ideas and more inclusive when it comes to ICSC offerings.

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OSHA Electronic Records Submission Delayed, But Not for Long

FDR Safety

OSHA recently announced another delay in the deadline for employers to electronically submit their 2016 injury and illness data to the agency. As a brief recap, the revised recordkeeping rule requires employers with 250 or more employees to submit their OSHA 300A Annual Summaries for each separate establishment by December 15.

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Consumer Price Index + 2.9% (Past Twelve Months)

Job Order Contracting

Technical information: (202) 691-7000 • cpi_info@bls.gov • www.bls.gov/cpi Media Contact: (202) 691-5902 • PressOffice@bls.gov CONSUMER PRICE INDEX – JUNE 2018 The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.1 2017 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 June. Consumer Price Index Summary.

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Tech-Driven Demand, Shifts In Trade Policy Boosting U.S. Industrial Sector

Business Facilities

The industrial real estate sector continues to benefit from many of the technology-driven shifts that are challenging the retail and office sectors, such as rising consumer dependence on e-commerce and mounting demand for data centers to support cloud computing, according to the latest U.S. Industrial Market Outlook report from Ten-X.

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What’s the Best Concrete Moisture Test Method?

GCP Applied Technologies

Mon, 02/19/2018 - 11:22. February 26, 2018. Choosing Flooring for Retail Environments. Retail buildings. What’s the Best Concrete Moisture Test Method? Phillip.fry@gc…. GCP Applied Technologies. This awareness is inspired, in part, by flooring manufacturers that require such testing to qualify for warranty coverage.