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Baltimore Sun - The county planning office approved the construction plans late last month. The project would add nearly 404,000 square feet of office space. The two office buildings would be built near McDonogh Road in the southwestern portion of the company's campus

Forbes - HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The highway funding legislation enacted last summer will help Pennsylvania begin to address the worst of its bridge and roadway problems, but it did not solve the state's impending "mobility crisis," a ...

Seattle Times - If you're driving home from a trip to British Columbia, be ready for even longer waits to re-enter the U.S. starting early next month because of major construction at the Peace Arch border crossing at Interstate-5. The U.S. border station at the ...

International Herald Tribune - Commission head Pierre-Marc Johnson, a former Premier of Quebec, said that concrete of inadequate quality and lax workmanship during the construction of the overpass 35 years earlier played a major role in its sudden collapse on Sept. 30, 2006. ...

MSN MoneyCentral - NEW YORK, Oct. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- McGraw-Hill Construction, part of The McGraw-Hill Companies MHP , will host the 69th annual Construction Industry Outlook Executive Conference on Thursday, October 25th, at the Capital Hilton in Washington, DC. The ...

Forbes - FRANKFURT (Thomson Financial) - Wacker Construction Equipment AG said remaining shareholders in Neuson Kramer Baumaschinen AG agreed to sell their 10.37 pct stake in the company to Wacker, freeing the way for a merger of the two construction ...

Newsday - An early-morning hit-and-run accident on the Grand Central Parkway in Queens left a construction worker fighting for his life, police said. New York City Police said the crash occurred Thursday at 2:27 a.m. in a construction zone on the eastbound ...

Patriot Ledger - BRAINTREE - Liddell Bros. Inc., a Halifax construction company, may have to pay fines totaling $57,000 after being cited for unsafe working conditions during a spot inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor in June. Ted Fitzgerald, a spokesman for ...

CNBC - COCONUT GROVE, Fla. - Watsco Inc., a distributor of air conditioning, heating and refrigeration equipment, reduced its fiscal year 2007 outlook on Thursday, as the housing slowdown and pricing pressures persist. Watsco now expects full-year earnings ...

CNBC - COCONUT GROVE, Fla. - Watsco Inc., a distributor of heating and cooling equipment, said Thursday that third-quarter earnings fell 13 percent, due in part to a slowdown in home building. Net income fell to $25.2 million, or 90 cents per share, from ...