I’m sure there are many youngsters that just received a diploma this month with a concentration in construction management.  Now they are boggled in debt and left with no income on which to live.  So of course the simple solution to that is to get a job.  Well, unfortunately we are in perhaps the worst [...]

I was at the jobsite of one of my projects about a week ago….ok, ok, I was at the jobsite of my only project about a week ago, and the plumber was roaming around installing some drinking fountains.  This guy had done work for the municipality in the past and had a prior relationship with [...]

After spending fifteen excruciating minutes scouring the web in search of details on the recently passed Heathcare Bill, I’ve realized that it is very difficult to nail down exactly what the changes are and how they will affect the working World and specifically the construction industry.  From what I gather, the main objective was for [...]

2008 was a very bad year for cranes in this country.  It was an especially bad year for the owner of New York Crane and Equipment Company Jimmy Lomma.  Lomma’s company was associated with the collapse of two cranes in 2oo8.  One crane collapsed into an apartment building on March 15, 20o8 on E. 51st. [...]

Over the past six months, I have had the wonderful privilege (ahem) of bidding about 15 public Requests for Proposals.  While I have complained constantly about the process, I probably wouldn’t have any work at all at the moment if they were not available.  As a brand new company there are very few private owners [...]

I must say that I have thoroughly enjoyed watching the likes of Lindsay Von, Bodie Miller, and Apolo Anoton Ohno rake in medals at the Olympics in Vancouver this year.  I couldn’t help but wonder how many of these fantastic facilities were new and how much money was thrown into these games for the construction [...]