Austin-Area Apprentices Gather for 2022 Apprentice

On Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022, apprentices gathered to celebrate Apprentice Appreciation Day at NECA 2022 Austin, sponsored by Milwaukee Tool and the Electrical Training Alliance. The event featured special programming with speakers for apprentices working at all levels of electrical construction.

Following the morning’s presentations, apprentices were offered free admission to the trade show floor and all 36 trade show

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First Standardized Solar Asset Ratings Introduced

DroneBase, a California-based provider of intelligent aerial imagery for high-value infrastructure, with customers in the solar, wind, construction and critical infrastructure industries, announced the first set of solar asset ratings, in conjunction with expansion of its solar scanning to cover all of North America.

            The solar industry is scaling on a significant level, thanks in part to the Solar Energy

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Number of Construction Jobs, Unemployment and Costs on the

As momentum for construction projects in the United States continues to increase, so do construction costs, according to Rider Levett Bucknall’s (RLB) Second Quarter 2022 Construction Cost Report.

Between Jan. 1 and April 1, the national average increase in construction costs was roughly 2.4% (7.5% annualized), and RLB’s National Construction Cost Index (NCCI) jumped from 218.06 to 234.42 on a

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