Fire department, legislators and mayor of Honolulu, Hawaii, working to allow damper inspections.

For every roofing underlayment roll of Summit 60 sold — including traditional and limited-edition pink ribbon rolls — from Aug. 15 to Oct. 15, 2019, Atlas Roofing will donate $2 to the Susan G. Komen breast cancer foundation.

An investigation by journalist Juliana Feliciano Reyes of the Philadelphia Inquirer provides some humorous insight. 

A group of 100 volunteer contractors from the Plumbing, Heating, Cooling Contractors Association of Northeast Ohio (PHCC) and the Greater Cleveland Air Conditioning Contractors Association (ACCA) will travel throughout Ohio's Cuyahoga County to provide free furnace tune-ups, water audits and plumbing repairs.

China will implement retaliatory tariffs on $75 billion in U.S. goods and reinstate levies on American automobiles.

U.S. construction industry leaders are somewhat less confident about near-term prospects for nonresidential construction but remain reasonably upbeat, according to the June 2019 Construction Confidence Index released by Associated Builders and Contractors.

FABTECH 2019 keynote speakers include NFL’s Chad Hennings, author and former conman Frank Abagnale Jr. and Grant Imahara of 'MythBusters.'

RedTeam Software, the cloud-based construction management software provider, launches new TeamPlayer app for subcontractors, available through contractors using RedTeam software.  

In a memo, a US Steel plant in Michigan says recently announced layoffs are expected to be temporary, not permanent. However, layoffs are likely to continue "periodically."

With Revit 2020.1, mechanical engineers can perform HVAC systems design and modeling directly in Revit. There is also the ability to use the same Revit model for documentation, design and analysis, eliminating the need to create redundant analytical models.