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Georgia Gallagher & Family awarded The Bernard H. Gallagher Career & Technical Scholarships to Cameron Ekechi and Adriana Petitto in the amount of $500 each at the Parma Council of PTA's Annual Scholarship Dinner on May 15, 2019.  Both students are graduating from Parma Senior High School this year.  Cameron will be attending Kent State University to study Construction Management, and Adriana will

By Jenn Goodman, Construction Dive

The Trump administration agreed on Friday to lift its tariffs on industrial metals from Mexico and Canada in exchange for the adoption of new monitoring and enforcement measures to prevent Chinese steel from being shipped to the U.S. The U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum, imposed in March 2018, were lifted over the weekend, the Washington

Published: May, 2019; Vol 15, Num 12, Laborers' Health & Safety Fund of North America

The conversation we must have is about the difficult subject of suicide. Some people might say this isn’t a construction problem, but a people problem. Others might say this doesn’t affect them or it’s none of their business. But the uncomfortable truth is that every year, construction has more deaths by

By Rich Exner, cleveland.com

Drivers of 39,000 cars and trucks each day are going to have to find new roads to travel around a section of highway south of downtown Cleveland for the next two years.

The Ohio Department of Transportation late next month will close the half-mile stretch of Interstate 490 -- from I-77 east to East 55th Street

By Kim Slowey, Construction Dive

Developer-builder Decennial Group — a joint venture between developers Clayco and Farpoint Development — announced it will invest $1 billion in U.S. heartland opportunity zone development projects, according to a company press release. That investment, according to The Real Deal, should come in the next three years, but the company could sink as much as $20 billion into new projects

By Ginger Christ, The Plain Dealer

The MetroHealth System on Monday will break ground on the centerpiece of its $946-million transformation plan, an 11-story 264-bed hospital on its main campus on West 25th Street in Cleveland. 

The transformation project kicked off in 2014, and already has included the expansion of the system’s Critical Care Pavilion and the construction of a new parking garage

By Evan MacDonald, cleveland.com

The two construction workers were employees at Trafftech Inc. in Cleveland, and were working on the Cedar Road Reconstruction Project, Budish said in his statement. The Cuyahoga County Department of Public Works is managing the $4.5 million project, which is funded by federal money from the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency.

“We extend our deepest sympathies to Mr

By Bob Sandrick, Crain's 

More than 400 builders, craftsmen and apprentices attended the inaugural Building Excellence and Craftsmanship Awards to celebrate the construction industry and its role in Northeast Ohio.

Tim Linville, CEO of the Construction Employers Association, said the awards, held March 28 at Windows on the River in Cleveland, underscore the importance of trade apprenticeships in nurturing craftsmanship, and

Jonathan Barnes, Engineering News-Record Midwest

A small, quickly rising Ohio-based general contractor appears to have shut down.

Last August, Inc. Magazine named Columbus-based Palmetto Construction Services (and no connection to Charleston, S.C.-based Palmetto Construction Group) to the magazine's annual list of the 5,000 fastest-growing private U.S. companies. With $21.5 million in revenue and annual growth of 165% over three years

By Stan Bullard, Crain's

Voss Industries LLC, a manufacturer of clamps and related items for aerospace and associated uses, is preparing to move its 267 jobs and $11 million yearly payroll from its Cleveland plant to Berea.

The unit of Fullerton, Calif.-based Consolidated Aerospace Manufacturing LLC confirmed in an email to Crain's that it plans to relocate to a more