Construction Informer

I asked this question last year on this day and so it surfaces again, because this holiday has surfaced again. Is Labor Day obsolete?
The Census Bureau claimed in a press release today that there are 155 million people in the workforce with 10.5 million of them being self employed. Five percent have more than one [...]

I’ve often wondered just where the term “punch list” came from. I have found some pretty good speculation on that. For example, one blog writer said it had to do with the term punch since it means to “punch something up” as in fix it. Another blog writer thought it had something to do with [...]

Was it McGuire, or Maguire, who orchestrated the first attempt to create a day set aside to honor the contributions made by the American workers to the strength, prosperity and well-being of the country?
To this day it is unclear whether the credit for Labor Day should go to Peter J. McGuire, secretary general of the [...]

On second thought maybe you should just go to lunch together, and each of you buys your own. This is Building Safety Week, as advanced by the International Code Council, and it says some of the credit for safer buildings goes to all those people who ensure construction goes according to code. This includes not [...]

Assigning meaning to the various colors of hard hats seems to fall into the realm of necessity. I recently read where some transportation departments assign hard hat colors to specific stations on the job. So, a visitor’s hard hat would be green and a manager’s hard hat would be white, etc. California DOT actually spells [...]