GroundBreak Carolinas is honored to once again be the media partner for the annual Chix Dig It- Celebrating Women in Construction luncheon. Now in its fourth year, the 2019 Chix Dig It luncheon is scheduled for Thursday, June 20 at Prestonwood Country Club in Cary, N.C. This year’s theme is "Men as Allies: Breaking Barriers and Leading the Way."
Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) Carolinas Chapter celebrated the graduating Class of 2019 for the Chapter’s Apprenticeship & Craft Training Program by hosting the ceremony at the Charlotte Knights baseball game.
Companies looking to improve workplace safety have a number of methods at their disposal. But to embed a sustainable safety culture, they must overcome the mindsets that underlie unsafe behaviors. Read More
Good communication on the job site can improve the project budget, schedule, and working relationships between contractors and subcontractors. However, it doesn’t always seem possible. While there are technological advances that improve communication, like phones and email, that’s not always where the problems lie. Take a look at why communication fails and how you can improve and encourage good communication on the job site.
Chris Moore has been promoted to President of CarolinaPower, a leading employee-owned electrical contractor serving industrial, commercial, healthcare and federal markets in the two-state Carolinas region. Moore has been with the company since its inception 20 years ago. Most recently, Moore served as Vice President and General Manager.
The Carolinas AGC was recently involved in successfully pushing for state funding for a critical skilled trades initiative. It won't be long before South Carolina begins to see an 18-wheeler that serves as a mobile skilled trades workshop, rolling down the interstate and showcasing skilled trades at schools, football games, and fairs. Read More
The Western Carolina University Board of Trustees has filled two distinguished professorships, one of them a new position designed to increase interest in construction managementand the other an existing title intended to reward current WCU faculty members for exemplary teaching, research and service. Read More
Bolstered by increasingly strong spending in manufacturing construction, private nonresidential construction spending reached $460 billion in March, on a seasonally adjusted, annualized basis according to the Marcum Commercial Construction Index.This represented a gain of 2.1% from a year earlier.
Stewart announced an expanded presence across the Carolinas with two new office locations in Columbia, South Carolina, and Wilmington, North Carolina. Opening the new offices creates a cross-state footprint that builds on the firm’s current headquarters in downtown Raleigh and existing office locations in Charlotte and Durham
The U.S. office market continues to expand ahead of forecast, posting 18 million square feet of net absorption in the fourth quarter of 2018 and 11 million square feet in the first quarter of 2019, says the NAIOP Office Space Demand Forecast. Continued economic growth and increases in job creation are likely the main forces behind these levels of new leasing. Read More
Do you have a BIG idea for a session at the ULI 2020 Carolinas Meeting? Share your suggestions for sessions you would like to see. This is your chance to influence the content of the Carolinas premier real estate industry gathering. Keep in mind, we want "BIG IDEAS," topics and themes, as our committee typically uses information from multiple submissions to shape the programing. We are early in the planning and have not determined a meeting theme.
The WELL Building Standard (a new rating system from IWBI) provides a structure for evaluating wellness strategies for building design and operational elements, built from a collection of research findings that support the benefits to health and well-being. Peter K. Dahl and Ariane Laxo will show how recent research in this area supports the business case for this intense focus on health, identify similarities and overlapping strategies between LEED and WELL, and critical differences between the two rating systems.
