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  • The Regulation Changed. Did Your Workforce?

    The Regulation Changed. Did Your Workforce?0

    By Troy Clark, MSC Safety Solutions Construction companies are used to change. OSHA revises standards. Building codes move through new cycles. Owners introduce different requirements, while sustainability expectations continue to influence how projects are designed and built. Companies respond by reviewing their programs, updating procedures, and communicating what has changed. The difficult part comes after

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  • Health Insights: Regulatory Shifts Impacting Subcontractors

    Health Insights: Regulatory Shifts Impacting Subcontractors0

    A Moving Target Heading Into 2027 For subcontractors, health benefits have become as much a compliance issue as a recruiting tool. In the past twelve months, federal subsidies for individual coverage expired, the Department of Labor moved to rewrite worker-classification rules and ACA employer-mandate thresholds and penalties climbed. Each of these shifts lands differently onREAD MORE
  • Dates & Figs – November 2026

    Dates & Figs – November 20260

    ABC – Data Center Construction Spending Growing at 149% Annualized Pace Since March  National nonresidential construction spending increased 0.7% in August, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data published October 1 by the U.S. Census Bureau. On a seasonally adjusted annualized basis, nonresidential spending totaled $1.309 trillion. Spending was up on a

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  • The Rules are Changing

    The Rules are Changing0

    By Leslie A. Boe, Dysart Taylor McMonigle Brumitt & Wilcox, P.C. The construction contract has always been the subcontractor’s rulebook, and it still is.  If the subcontract said you wouldn’t be paid until the owner paid the general, you waited.  If it said you waived your lien rights, or that your retainage would sit until

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