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St. Louis subcontractor releases rap video to promote construction careers

Construction Dive

UPCO's “Old Town Road” parody song highlights the brand and aims to draw new recruits to the industry.

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St. Louis sees a $750M hotel construction boom

Construction Dive

The growth is being driven by demand from the city's burgeoning tech industry and a desire to draw in more convention business.

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How to Choose the Best General Contractor to Partner with for your “First” Commercial Construction Project

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One of our current commercial projects at Englewood Construction is a new Farm & Fleet store we’re building in Romeoville, Ill. But from a construction standpoint, there are some key areas where choosing an experienced commercial construction firm can make all the difference in helping a “first” project go as smoothly as possible.

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Due diligence part 1: The world’s largest pheasant

The Korte Company

The construction market in St. Louis is like anywhere: cyclical. Design-Build opportunities were still rare in St. Louis at the time, so we needed to cast a wider net. And they noticed the federal government posting construction projects on the Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) board. What did we do best?

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How Autodesk Build Became a Project Manager Favorite

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Wilson, a construction management firm out of St. Louis, Missouri. Wilson into PlanGrid Unlimited but also started explaining this new construction management software that we hadn’t released yet–Autodesk Build. The secret to building construction management software. The Autodesk team was working on bringing S.

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Autodesk Construction Champions 2023: 25 People Powering the Future of Construction 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Many things make construction an exceptional field to work in. There's also the technology side, where innovations like AI, AR, and robotics take the construction sector to the next level of advancement. So without further ado, we're thrilled to introduce Autodesk's Construction Champions 2023. Wilson & Co.

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Sandy Grapperhaus could tell you stories

The Korte Company

You’d put a piece of coated paper under the original drawings so that the light could get through everything except where the original drawing lines were. That’s why she voluntarily stepped down and took a job as a project management assistant to Mike Tubbs at the St. Louis Union Station Office. “A