Common Ground Alliance, the stakeholder-run organization focused on protecting underground utility lines and the people who dig near them, announced [...more]

The Annual Country Infrastructure Capacity Survey suggests that the United States is falling into second-rate status in the infrastructure arena, becoming a country [...more]

The National Conference of State Legislatures, in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration Office of Operations, publishes the NCSL Transportation Operations, Management and ITS Legislation Database, which categorizes [...more]

CTI Technology Transfer Center at UConn recently presented a safety brief to municipalities about a new state law, Public Act 11-256, effective Oct. 1, 2011, which [...more]

New York State plans to spend $15 billion on infrastructure improvements, including repair of bridges, road and municipal water system improvements and [...more]

The Mine Safety Accountability and Improved Protection Act, H.R. 3697, was introduced by Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV). The bill, which was filed in response [...more]

OSHA was not required to promulgate through notice and comment rulemaking its multi-employer citation policy and could impose multi-employer liability [...more]

The Governor opened his administration for 11 months to Ted Mann, former political journalist for The Day of New London, resulting in a three-week, 20-part series published by Hearst Connecticut [...more]

Congress should fully fund EPA’s Clean Water State Revolving Fund, the Natural Resources Defense Council recommends [...more]

Building infrastructure that frames and supports family involvement efforts would help school districts direct resources and programmatic efforts [...more]

Transportation infrastructure would be authorized a one-time $10 billion appropriation to capitalize an existing U.S. DOT program that helps states provide loans, loan guarantees, and other forms of non-grant assistance to leverage private dollars, and [...more]

OSHA’s On-site Consultation Program provides small business workplaces with free, confidential advice and assistance in [...more]

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has published Information for Contractors and Vendors, which includes links to contracts, grants, small business opportunities, [...more]

Congress would be required to approve all major federal regulations with an effect of $100 million or more, under H.R. 10, the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act, passed last week [...more]

Connecticut ranks 22nd among the 50 states, according to an analysis by 24/7 Wall Street, [...more]

Parties to construction contracts and their attorneys now can utilize a powerful new tool for facilitating settlement of disputes, [...more]

CPTV is seeking audience members for Retirement Realities: A Town Hall Meeting, Why So Many Americans Feel Unprepared, a panel discussion, on Thurs., Dec. 15, 2011, [...more]

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state organized-labor leaders are exploring the idea of tapping private and public pension funds to help pay for [...more]

State officials in Massachusetts hope that as many as 16,000 jobs will be created by casino development in the coming years but [...more]

A true, fixed-price approach to designing and building complex capital projects is outlined in LePatner C3 Model™: Construction Cost Certainty, a white paper by attorney and author Barry B. LePatner that builds on [...more]

Difficulties in obtaining financing are delaying many otherwise viable projects and therefore holding back a recovery in construction, according to [...more]

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, in response to an employer’s request, recently issued a non-binding opinion letter that provides insight [...more]

Proposed Stream Flow Standards and Regulations have been revised and were submitted to the [...more]

New public-health studies and laboratory experiments suggest that, at every stage of life, traffic fumes exact a measurable toll on [...more]

The Department of Administrative Services hosted its first online reverse auction bid recently, when it advertised the need for payloader machinery, [more]

Employees who experience under withholding during this transition year to implement state income tax changes on a catch-up basis, [more]

The twelve-member bipartisan Deficit Reduction Committee, the so-called “supercommittee”, has until Nov. 23, 2011, the day before Thanksgiving, to craft a plan [more]

A significant level of investment, $188.4 billion, in stormwater infrastructure spread equally over the next five years would generate $265.6 billion in economic activity [more]

Stepped-up scrutiny of unemployment benefits is part of the Obama administration’s government-wide effort to reduce the $125 billion in “improper payments” the government made [more]

The Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities is sponsoring an employer seminar, Civil Rights is Good for Business, on Wed., Oct. 26, 2011 at the State Capitol, Room 310, from 10 am to 12 noon. The free program will focus on challenges [...more]

Transforming accumulated tax credits “from a liability to a powerful driver of new investment” would help promote jobs in Connecticut, according to Fred V. Carstensen, director [...more]

Drivers across the U.S. are paying more as more states and communities raise tolls or impose them for the first time to build and repair highways, bridges and tunnels, according to USA TODAY. The article includes a roll-over map [...more]

‘Buy American’ provisions in the American Jobs Act of 2011, S. 1549, which some in Congress may try to pass piecemeal, are identical to the provisions in the Recovery Act of 2009, ...[more]

Contracting revenue from green building construction generated $44.41 billion in contracting revenue last year, a 3.2% increase over the year before,...[more]

The Rebuilding our Economy and Limiting the Impacts of Expected Flooding (RELIEF) Act, H.R. 3089, was introduced in Congress by Rep. Chris Murphy (D-5^th Dist.). The bill would authorize FEMA to make $100 million a year in grants for each of the next five years to municipal governments for flood mitigation projects.

Public Owner of the Year: Keith Epstein, CT State University System; Private Owner of the Year: David Frassinelli, Fairfield University; Designer of the Year: Clarence Welti, Clarence Welti Associates; GC/CM of the Year: Damien Davis, Newfield Construction; Subcontractor of the Year: Robert Berkmoes, James T. Kay Co.; Supplier/Service Provider of the Year: Michael Donnelly, Murtha Cullina LLP; Construction Supervisor of the Year: Marty Tubbs, Manafort Brothers, Inc.; Educator of the Year: Howard Epstein, University of Connecticut; and the newest category, Safety Professional of the Year: Walter Tucker, Petra Construction Corp.

Reporting requirements under a proposed rule issued by the U.S. Dept. of Labor’s Office of Labor-Management Standards would be expanded for labor relations consultants (including attorneys and associations) who [more]

Connecticut will be committing “substantial resources” to energy efficiency, renewable power and innovative technologies, DEEP Commissioner Dan Esty said [more]

Connecticut ranks among the top ten states in terms of an abundance of business regulations, which can result in a business climate that can “hamstring business owners and [more]

Significant changes to the law concerning how developers and builders post performance bonds with municipalities ...made in Public Act 11-79, effective Oct. 1, 2011, [more]

Energy efficiency, renewable energy and Brownfield redevelopment initiatives that promote “green jobs” are summarized in a recent Office of Legislative Research report. The report also discusses [more]

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) program substantially improves the [more]

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