Top Ten Stories In California Construction For 2015

Top Ten Stories In California Construction For 2015

2015 will be remembered as a busy if not historic year for the California construction industry. California is leading the nation’s construction revival, not only in dollars spent, but in world-class projects currently underway or planned. Builders and contractors are using new technology as never before, and are expanding the boundaries of design, sustainable development, and construction techniques. In the midst of this optimism, California is dealing with an historic drought, an affordable housing crisis, and massive public projects under siege. Then there was terrible news from Berkeley about the deaths of a number of students when the balcony they were standing on collapsed, and calls for greater scrutiny of construction industry settlements. But California is resilient, it will find a way to build the safest, most efficient, and most awe-inspiring projects in the nation; it will find a way to build new schools, and it will find a way to fix broken bridges. It may not be pretty, but California will get there with determination and hard work. 2015 was a momentous year for the construction industry and 2016 holds promise to be an even better year.

Here is our list of Top Ten Stories In California Construction For 2015 (click each link below to read the full article):

1. Construction Continues To Improve, But Are We In A Boom?
2. The Historic Drought Has Killed Your Lawn, Will It Do The Same To The Construction Industry?
3. Affordable Housing: An Unsolvable Riddle in California?
4. Labor Shortage: Has Uber Poached All Our Construction Workers?
5. Berkeley Balcony Collapse Leads To Calls For More Scrutiny of Construction Industry Settlements
6. Public Projects in Turmoil: The Saga Of The Bay Bridge, Delta Tunnels, and High Speed Rail Would Make A Compelling Reality TV Show
7. SB 800: Can Builders Enforce It, Or Not?
8. Technology: Building Information Modeling, Construction Apps, and 3-D Printing
9. A School Facilities Bond For 2016: Good News For Everyone
10. Drones: Maximizing Efficiency And Productivity, With a Dash Of Big Brother Thrown In

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