New Mexico

Fri July 21, 2017

AGC Releases Latest Construction Employment Numbers by Sate

Forty-one states added construction jobs between June 2016 and June 2017 amid continuing widespread demand for construction services, while 25 states and the District of Columbia added construction jobs between May and June, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of Labor Department data released July 21....

Fri July 21, 2017

Volvo Makes a Splash in Colorado

Nestled in the Animas River Valley, surrounded by the San Juan Mountains is the city of Durango, Colorado. The region's evergreen forests and babbling creeks are adored by locals and nature enthusiasts alike; attracting a steady flow of holidaymakers throughout the year....

Chuck Harvey - Wed June 21, 2017

NMDOT Oversees McCarty's $12.5M Bridge Replacement

Construction is under way on a $12.5-million bridge replacement project at the Interstate 40 and NM 124 interchange (Exit 96) in McCarty's, west of Albuquerque, N.M. The bridge will be built over I-40....

Thu June 08, 2017

Sandia Awards 14 N.M. Construction Companies $135M in New Contracts

Fourteen New Mexico companies, most of them small businesses, have been chosen to provide about $135 million in general, electrical, mechanical and civil construction work at Sandia National Laboratories....

Wed June 07, 2017

Route 66 Landmark to Be Redeveloped

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) Redevelopment of another old motel along historic Route 66 will begin soon. Albuquerque-based Construct Southwest was selected last July by the city of Albuquerque to bring the De Anza Motor Lodge back to life....

Fri June 02, 2017

Construction Sign Causes Social Media Stir

A construction site in southern New Mexico, which sparked buzz with a fake sign announcing it as a future home of a Cheesecake Factory, is really a future emergency center. The Las Cruces Sun-News reports (https://goo.gl/aIJF5k) that officials say pranksters put up the bogus sign on a gate as a joke....

Bruce Krasnow - Wed May 24, 2017

New Mexico's Construction Industry Booming in 2017

With work under way on a Facebook data center in Los Lunas, a major rapid transit project in Albuquerque and hospitals and roads in Santa Fe, New Mexico's construction industry is off to one of its best starts in years....

Chuck Harvey - Wed May 24, 2017

ART Project Speeds Ahead on Old Route 66

A $119 million Albuquerque Rapid Transit (ART) project will culminate with an 8.8-mi. electric-powered bus line with 20 stations on Central Avenue, formerly a portion of Route 66 that runs through New Mexico's largest city....

Wed May 10, 2017

PDC Wins AGC's Best Building Award for UNM Renovation

The Association of General Contractors (AGC) of New Mexico announced that The University of New Mexico's Chemistry building renovation, completed last year, was deserving of the best “Construction Management-at-Risk” award for 2017....

Fri April 07, 2017

Machine Recycles Beer Bottles Back Into Sand For Construction Sites

DB Export has announced its mission to help save New Zealand's beaches by producing a man-made sand product. The brewery was motivated by the knowledge that New Zealand beaches are retreating partly due to sand mining which occurs on some of these beaches -- DB Export is turning glass bottles that can't be recycled into a sand substitute suitable for everyday use....