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Construction Association Calls on President to Immediately End Tariffs and Quotas on Steel, Aluminum, and Lumber as First Step to Easing Pressure on Construction Costs and Supply-Chain Bottlenecks The cost of goods and services used in construction climbed by a record-setting 4.3 percent in May and 24.3 percent over the past 12 months, jeopardizing contractors’ [...]

Speed and collaboration were the defining words of Landry/French Construction’s lightning-fast transformation of a 145,000-square-foot Olympia Sports distribution center into a COVID-19 test kit manufacturing facility for Abbott Laboratories. In only 60 days, Landry/French renovated and retrofit 50,000 square feet of the building, with nearly 30,000 SF more completed 30 days later. The team liked [...]

When Northeast Paving was awarded the Maine Department of Transportation’s contract to reconstruct and repave one of the most heavily traveled roads in Northern Maine, they knew the project would be challenging. The subpar material used to construct the road in the 1950s would need to be excavated while keeping the shoulders intact, all while [...]

If the annual influx of tourists wasn’t enough to make Exit 45 in Scarborough/South Portland important as a corridor to reach Casco Bay, Peak’s Island, Great Diamond, and Long Island add the Maine Mall to the mix and a smoothly functioning interchange becomes essential. In late 2019, Maine Turnpike Authority selected Sargent Corporation for the [...]

Renovating a health care facility is detailed, precise work in the best of circumstances. Adding the need to keep the facility at full operations for the duration of the work, and the added infection-control requirements of a pandemic, the job becomes even more challenging. That’s what PC Construction faced when they began work on the [...]