Dec 4, 2015 | Legislative
This week, Congress passed a five-year surface transportation program reauthorization bill that will have another positive impact on Michigan’s heavy construction industry. The “Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act” (FAST Act) passed both chambers of Congress...
May 2, 2013 | Engineering
In 2003-04 the US Department of Labor (USDOL) conducted wage surveys in Michigan for the purposes of updating the Davis-Bacon Act wage decisions for the Residential, Building and Heavy construction types. When the USDOL published the Michigan Heavy Wage Determinations...
Oct 11, 2005 | Legislative
Federal Transportation Funding (SAFETEA-LU) & Hurricane Katrina The recent catastrophic disaster resulting from Hurricane Katrina has caused some in Washington D.C. to suggest that funds recently authorized in the six-year transportation act (SAFETEA-LU) be...
Mar 16, 2005 | Legislative
Federal Transportation Funding Reauthorization Last week the U.S. House of Representatives approved, by a vote of 417 – 9, a $284 billion highway bill that would boost road funds coming to Michigan by an average of nearly $200 million over the next five years. In all,...