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Framing up resources: Home Show to feature dozens of building-related vendors PETOSKEY — Whether they’re seeking construction resources for a new home or looking to improve on their existing residence, visitors to the 42nd annual Northern Michigan Home Show can learn about a number of products and services available for the project. The event, presented by the Home Builders Association of Northern Michigan, is planned for Friday and Saturday, March 9 and 10, in North Central Michigan College’s Student and Community Resource Center. Hours for the Home Show will be 11 a.m.-7 p.m. on March 9, and 9 a.m.-5 p.m....

College of Communication, Architecture + the Arts (CARTA) at Florida International University Announces "Sir Ivan"Wilzig has Joined the College's Board of Directors   MIAMI) February 27, 2018-- The College of Communication, Architecture + the Arts (CARTA) at Florida International University (FIU) has announced that "Sir Ivan" Wilzig has joined the College's Board of Directors. Wilzig is a graduate of both the University of Pennsylvania and the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. He is also a successful banker-turned-singer, TV celebrity, and social activist. After twenty years of working in his family's multi-billion dollar commercial banking business and serving on the bank's Board of Directors, Ivan left the...

Downtown Nampa construction scheduled for late March   NAMPA — A four-month rebuild of Second Street and Third Street in downtown Nampa is set to begin in late March, but the city is taking steps to limit the impact of the construction before the project begins.  Project managers gave new information at an open house Wednesday night at the Nampa Public Library, including how the construction will be staggered and how residents will access downtown businesses during construction.  The contractor, Idaho Materials and Construction, signed a contract for the project Feb. 21. Construction is set to begin in late March...

WorkSafeBC launches three-year construction high risk strategy The injury rate in B.C.’s construction industry has slowly been decreasing in recent years, but it doesn’t give health and safety professionals reason to cheer. That’s because the chance of a worker being injured in the industry was still three times higher than the average in all other industry sectors in B.C. Falls from heights are the leading cause of injuries, with more than 2,000 injuries reported in a five-year span through 2016. Twenty-two workers died from falls. Those statistics don’t sit well with WorkSafeBC which has implemented a three-year comprehensive strategy to...

Investigators Eye Possible $100 Million Construction Fraud New York State Police officers and investigators from the Manhattan district attorney swept into Bloomberg L.P., the financial news and information company, on Lexington Avenue in October. Armed with search warrants and grand jury subpoenas, they demanded access to the offices of two senior executives, apparently as part of an investigation into bribery, bid-rigging and kickbacks in the interior construction industry. That same day, Oct. 12, investigators raided the downtown offices of Turner Construction, a large general contractor that oversees work on Bloomberg offices in New York, seeking records, emails and computers belonging...