International Green Construction Code Released

The International Code Council—America’s foremost building code writing body—has released the International Green Construction Code™ (IGCC).  The IGCC will provides state and local governments with a “model code” to enforce energy usage and carbon footprint limits with regard to commercial buildings. The code is designed to minimize adverse impacts building construction and operations often have on the environment.  The release of […]

KC v. KC – What A Difference A River Makes

Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri share a border, a river, and that’s about it. The rivaly between Kansas and Missouri has been document since before the two were states.  So it should come as no suprise that when mechanic’s lien rights are involved, the two States are like night and day. In Missouri, unpaid […]

Massive Project Tries to Speed Up Chicago’s Old and Slow Rail Yards

Want to transport your goods the slowest way possible? Try sending them via train through Chicago, where for more than a decade trains have gone so slow that they average speeds of less than 5 miles per hour. Because of the bottleneck that the transportation of goods has experienced in the Chicago – the nation’s largest commercial train transit pass […]

US Construction Jobless Rate Ebbs

Even though the construction industry continued to lose jobs in April (the month saw another loss of 2,000 construction industry related jobs), the construction industry unemployment rate saw a drop of nearly three percent (3%).  The United States Department of Labor’s latest employment report indicated that the hardest hit area in the construction industry in […]

Iowa Electronic Filing Bill Signed Into Law: Changes Way Liens are Filed

In the last week of April, 2012, we posted a blog about proposed changes to the Iowa mechanics lien law that would require all mechanics lien documents to be electronically filed. At that time, the proposed bill had passed the House, and was on its way to the Senate. Since then, the entire Iowa legislature approved […]