Construction Jobless Rate Improves Slightly in August
Construction’s unemployment rate moved down slightly in August but remains highest among all industries.
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Labor Panel Okays Union Banner Protests
The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that the posting of stationary banners by members of a construction union at a secondary employer’s workplace does not violate the nation’s labor laws.
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Five Key Executives Depart RMJM
One of the world’s largest architectural firms, the Scotland-based RMJM, is losing three key executives, in addition to losing two others within the past 10 months.
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Back by Popular Demand: AutoCAD for the Mac
Autodesk announced on August 31 that it has released AutoCAD 2011 for Macintosh, along with AutoCAD WS, a mobile app that will allow users to share their AutoCAD designs in the field using iPhones, iPads, and iTouches.
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With Plans to Nab Anshen + Allen, Stantec Continues Its Buying Spree
Stantec, Canada’s largest architectural firm, announced on Aug. 26 that it has signed a letter of intent to purchase Anshen + Allen, a firm of roughly 200 employees with offices in San Francisco, Columbus, Boston, and London.
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“City Beautiful” Comes Alive in Daniel Burnham Documentary
After the overreaching of Modern city planning—barren plazas, rows of soulless apartment slabs—urban design got a bad rap.
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Expanding Horizons: Analyzing the Balfour Beatty/Parsons Brinckerhoff deal
Ian P. Tyler, a chartered accountant who now runs London-based contractor Balfour Beatty plc, admits to “never being good” at the accounting business.
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A Golden Anniversary for a Philip Johnson Museum
This October, the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute’s Museum of Art (MWPAI) in Utica, New York, will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its Philip Johnson-designed home with an exhibition commemorating the work of the illustrious Modernist and Postmodernist architect.
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Virginia Tech Student Wins Yéle Haiti Competition
Virginia Tech architecture student Christopher Morgan has won an international competition to design the Yéle Music Studio in the Cité Soleil area of Port-au-Prince.
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Chicago Plans $4B Urban Village
A planned two-mile relocation of Chicago’s South Shore Drive, about 10 miles south of the city’s downtown, is spurring a $4-billion megaproject to turn the vacant 530-acre site of a former U.S. Steel mill on Lake Michigan into a new community with nearly 14,000 housing units.
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