I’ve always been rather suspicious of rankings that were put out by magazines like Fortune or the Princeton Review for companies or schools or whatever, however they always make for some interesting reading and in the very least some lively conversations. Fortune magazine came out with their 100 Best Companies to Work For today [...]
While economic reports have been lackluster at best, I have a funny feeling that we may be on a rocket ship out of the recession that has made the lives of many tremendously difficult. Part of the reason for the sudden burst of optimism is that there just simply is no other way to go. Something [...]
I was sent this email on Christmas Eve right after the Senate met for a vote on the health care bill. It was a mass email to several people in the construction industry.
I said yesterday’s Alert was probably the final version for 2009 – but I had to bring the attached to your attention. Senator [...]
I have a new year’s resolution. I resolve to not rip on the authority of the business world and specifically construction organizations. And I will also lay-off the d-bag bankers and other greedy manipulators that have been spending the past decade hoarding money while screwing the….ok, ok, I’m done – seriously. It’s a new year, [...]
I think about blogs kind of like that pain in the ass cousin that always wants to go out and throw the baseball, but while you’d rather sit inside and throw back a few stiff ones, you also don’t want to ignore the kid and look like a jerk. Blogs have gotten to the point where, [...]
I went to the recovery.gov site today to get the latest news on the stimulus package and how much has been rolled out in an attempt to save the woefully unemployed from forming a long winding line outside every homeless shelter in the country. I had ambitious goals of giving a well organized description of how much money [...]
Please submit nominations for what you think is the best construction project of the decade. The criteria as far as completion is concerned is that the superstructure of the building must be in place by the end of December. So if the steel or concrete is topped off, it’s good to go. [...]
The Turner Construction Cost Index was released today for the fourth quarter of 2009. And to nobody’s surprise construction costs are down again. However, they are only down 2.07% this quarter versus 5.77% in the first quarter of 2009. This caps a horrifically dismal year and brings the total of construction cost decline to 12.62%.
Karl [...]
Construction Management Degree.
