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The Building Division held 17 general sessions, committee meetings, and social events at the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø Annual Convention last month in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Join large project owners, leaders from top building construction firms, design professionals and other stakeholders at the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø IPD and Lean Construction Building Conference in San Antonio, Texas, September 21-24, 2011 at the Westin La Cantera Resort.

According to the RSMeans' measures of dollar-per-square-foot construction costs, hospitals, jails, courthouses, and police stations rank among the most expensive structures to build.

President Obama signed H.R. 4 into law, a bill supported by ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø that repeals the 1099 reporting requirement that would have required all businesses to submit Form 1099s to the IRS and to any business with which it purchased $600 or more in goods or services in a year, creating a tremendous paperwork and compliance burden for businesses of all sizes. 

The ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø Construction Project Manager Course (PMC) provides you and your project managers the chance to hone the skills necessary to work more efficiently, increase productivity and propel your construction business to the next level. 

³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø will partner with the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. to present a roundtable conversation about the best techniques and practices for improving the efficiency and environmental performance of our built environment.

September 21-24, 2011 in San Antonio, TX Join large project owners, leaders from top building construction firms, design professionals and other stakeholders at the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø IPD and Lean Construction Building Conference in San Antonio, Texas, September 21-24, 2011 at the Westin La Cantera Resort.

There are modest signs of improvement for building construction entering 2011. But the gains will be spotty and partly offset by declines in previously active segments and rising materials costs. 

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has selected ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø of America to advise a panel of government officials on how to minimize the small business impact of imminent federal rules covering Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting (LRRP) work in public and commercial buildings.

Risk management remains critical to the long-term success of all construction companies and the starting point for risk management continues to be insurance.  It is therefore important that ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø has persuaded the supreme court of yet another state to hold that the commercial general liability (CGL) policies sold to ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø members across the country do provide coverage for unexpected and unintended defects in their subcontractors’ (or sub-subcontractors’) workmanship, or at least the property damage resulting from such workmanship.