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New pre-apprenticeship course gives prospective plumbing, HVAC workers timely glimpse into program, career

June 30, 2016

Adding to its toolbox of targeted solutions to address the critical worker shortage facing the plumbing-heating-cooling industry, the PHCC Educational...

NAHB: Skilled labor shortage in residential construction becoming more widespread

June 30, 2016

A National Association of Home Builders survey of single-family builders conducted in June 2016 shows that shortages of labor and...

BREEAM green building rating system comes to the U.S.

June 24, 2016

BREEAM, the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Methodology one of the world’s oldest and most widely used green building...

Contractors say bids to repipe Flint were fair

June 24, 2016

After Mayor Karen Weaver said bids to replace lead pipe in Flint, Mich., were "extremely high," several contractors defended their...

EPA says filtered Flint water safe for all to drink

June 24, 2016

Federal officials announced on June 23 it is safe for anyone to drink properly filtered water in Flint, Mich. The...

Milwaukee Tool M12 LED metal flashlight

June 23, 2016

Milwaukee Tool continues to expand the industry’s largest family of high output lighting solutions with the introduction of the M12...

IBC introduces stainless steel and titanium pool, spa heat exchangers

June 23, 2016

IBC announces the S and T Series high quality stainless steel and titanium pool and spa heat exchangers. When combined...

AGC: Only 19 states added construction jobs as firms run out of people to hire

June 21, 2016

Thirty-nine states added construction jobs between May 2015 and May 2016 while construction employment only increased in 19 states between...

Rinnai tankless water heater featured in Pulte net energy home prototype

June 20, 2016

California wants all new residential building to attain zero net energy status by 2020. When PulteGroup set out to build...

Today's Truck 2016

June 20, 2016

Ashlei Williams

From pickups to vans, contractors submitted their “mobile offices” for the fourth edition of PHC News magazine’s work truck spotlight. Click here to view the PowerPoint presentation. ...