Author name: Kristy Ramirez

When Troy Teepe worked on construction jobsites earlier in his career, he says he didn’t always follow safety protocols to a T. Today, he likens the confidence workers develop that causes them to skip safety measures to playing the lottery. Teepe’s grandfather started a plumbing company in the 1950s, which eventually expanded into heating, ventilation […]

Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Fresh off its first-quarter earnings call, Granite Construction announced the retirement of CFO Lisa Curtis, part of a core team of executives that engineered the Watsonville, California-based contractor’s turnaround in recent years.  Lisa Curtis Courtesy of Granite

Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The 92-year-old George Washington Bridge’s $2 billion comprehensive restoration program recently surpassed the halfway mark, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Significant improvements have already been made to the double-decked suspension

Dive Brief: The consumer price index excluding volatile food and energy prices rose last month at the slowest pace this year, giving Federal Reserve policymakers some relief from a barrage of first-quarter data that shook confidence inflation will steadily slow to their 2% goal. So-called core CPI gained 0.3% in April compared with 0.4% during