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The Midland, Texas-based Pipeline Group is sponsoring a public education workshop for those involved in excavation activities in Cooper, Howard, Boone and Callaway counties. The goal of the program is to prevent accidents and damages to underground pipelines and utilities.The program “Public Education and Contractor's Awareness Program" will be held at 7 a.m. on Wed., Oct. 11 at the Tiger Shrine Club, 1300 Blue Ridge Road in Columbia, Mo. Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company is sponsoring the program which will open with a free catered breakfast. After the meal, a brief safety program will be presented, stressing the importance of accident prevention by identifying pipeline and utility right-of-way, use of one-call systems and the importance of working with pipeline and utility companies to safely excavate in the vicinity of underground facilities.“Each year, many people are injured or lives are lost, plus millions of dollars in repairs and lost products are incurred due to 'third party' accidents - someone digging into a pipeline," said LeNita Harmon, a Pipeline Group representative.
The construction of a micro-dam in Mirgats, Adi-Keyih sub-zone, has been finalized at a cost of 6.7 million Nakfa and gone operational. The micro-dam constructed by Bidho Construction Company has a capacity of holding over 157,000 cubic meters of water and is expected to irrigate 30 hectares. It would also provide potable water supply to the inhabitants of Embaquaquat and Mirgats, in addition to facilitating irrigation farming in the area. .
A panel of business owners, managers, and employees from the New Mexico construction industry helped select the "Best of 2006" in commercial construction projects in the state. The annual competition, sponsored by McGraw Hill Construction of Phoenix, a subsidiary of McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. (NYSE: MHP), recognizes construction and design excellence in New Mexico, Nevada, and Arizona. .
The housing market slowdown has prompted builders to seek price cuts from contractors in a bid to make new homes more affordable. By asking favorite contractors to charge less, or seeking bids from an expanded pool of contractors, builders hope to reduce costs by more than 10 percent. Contractors are playing ball because the alternative for them may mean no work. Builders are specifically trying to take advantage of a drop in lumber prices, which have fallen 6 percent in the last 12 months because of a slowdown in new-home construction, said Ken Simonson, a chief economist of the Associated General Contractors of America. With new-home closings falling four of the last five months in the valley, builders have cut back dramatically on home construction.
Treasure Valley police and local building companies are working together to fight back against a string of construction burglaries by emphasizing that tipsters can earn cash for reporting crimes.
Area Crime Stoppers, Boise police, and Treasure Valley builders including Corey Barton Homes unveiled a new "stop sign" program Tuesday that provides building sites with large red signs that encourage anyone with information on vandalism, burglary and other crimes at construction sites to report those crimes and possibly earn a cash reward.
The signs are available to all Treasure Valley builders in return for a donation to Crime Stoppers to cover the cost of printing more signs. No dollar amount is specified for the donation. Crime Stoppers board member Ken Rhoades, advertising manager for building materials company BMC West, said Tuesday that theft, burglaries and vandalism are a growing problem.
LANDOWNERS who build a house in the Redlands could face a new fee of more than $13,000 under a Redland Shire Council proposal to fund road upgrades. On the mainland the charges will not apply to land resulting from subdivision or density increase. On the Southern Moreton Bay Islands, however, where the land is nearly totally subdivided, the charge will apply at the time of building a house. The public has until October 6 to have its say on Council's plan to introduce transport infrastructure charges to pay for roads and other local transport improvements. Land on the Bay Islands was subdivided before Council took control in 1973. With no planning controls in place at the time, no financial provision was made for the cost of basic roads. .
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