CISCA
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Construction Equipment
After losing momentum during last year’s fourth quarter, nonresidential building strengthened in January, with much of the lift coming from the start of the $3.4 billion Central Terminal Building at LaGuardia Airport in New York NY as well as groundbreaking for several other large airport terminal projects, climbed 12-percent, according to Dodge Data & Analytics.

For Construction Pros
Succession planning is growing on most firms’ employee and leadership "radar" because as an industry, we’re getting older, in larger numbers than ever. A growing number of construction companies are realizing that they might be seeing a significant percentage of their most-experienced and most-knowledgeable workers and leaders exiting...and soon!

CNBC
The sharp moves lower came after Axios reported that President Donald Trump's infrastructure plans may be pushed back until 2018. Axios, citing Republican sources, said that putting off any consideration of these plans would give lawmakers on Capitol Hill more breathing room to deal with a legislative calendar that already includes a Supreme Court nomination, tax reform and repealing Obamacare

Construction Dive
Growing uncertainty around the outcome of a protracted trade dispute between the U.S. and Canada is forcing softwood lumber prices up, according to the National Association of Home Builders.

Hilti
Through education and product innovation, Hilti is supporting customers as they develop and implement compliancy plans for the new Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) §1926.1153 Respirable Crystalline Silica (RCS) Standard for construction.

Forbes
Irving Materials Inc., the largest privately held ready-mix concrete producer in the Midwest United States with more than 3,000 employees across a half-dozen states, has been through the tough times and came out strong on the other side.

The New York Times
The most important issue for the United States economy in 2017 and beyond is whether it’s near its speed limit. It has taken eight years of glacial expansion, but the nation is closing in on what economists believe to be its full productive capacity. It’s nearing that level of activity in which nearly everybody who wants a job has one, and factories and offices are cranking at full speed.

Reuters
The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits rose slightly last week but the four-week average of such claims, considered a better gauge, fell to a 43-1/2-year low in a sign of a strengthening labor market.