The Recovery Act has made possible over 12, 500 transportation construction projects, from rebuilding highways to improving our airports.
The Colorado Department of Transportation has construction updates for those making the drive, and suggests visitors take the more northern US Highway 34 or Colorado Highway 7 entrances if possible.
During the recent meeting, I shared some of the promotional materials that the association has produced for young people considering a career in transportation design and construction.
That's not a Democratic idea or a Republican idea--it's a common-sense idea: Investments that create, maintain, or expand transportation networks create construction jobs even as they promote economic activity.
It also provides money for thousands of transportation projects currently under construction around the country.
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Mianyang is already well connected by both highway and rail, with more transportation networks currently under construction.
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This segment includes the production of rigid container sheet, as well as sheets and plates used in the transportation, building and construction and distribution markets.
Civil engineers design and develop the construction of transportation infrastructure and water supply and sewage systems, after attaining at least a bachelor's degree in engineering and several years of experience.
You have undoubtedly some weather impact in the establishment survey, particularly in industries like construction and transportation, where one might easily presume that weather would affect the numbers coming out of that survey.
Within the strategic business units, businesses manufacture and sell a wide range of products to many different markets, including the transportation, textile, construction, automotive, agricultural and hybrid seeds, nutrition and health, pharmaceuticals, packaging and electronics markets.
But the competitive transportation advantage declined with the construction of better roads around the country, and then with the onset of the silicon-based economy.
We are nine days away from the expiration of federal transportation funding, which guarantees jobs for almost a million construction workers because Congress has not passed a transportation bill.
Its products are used in the automotive, construction, commercial, transportation and industrial-machinery markets.
Within the private sector, transportation and warehousing, and the construction industry saw the largest number deaths, with 711 and 721, respectively.
The energy boom is creating thousands of jobs related to drilling but also in downstream industries such as transportation, high-technology, construction and manufacturing.
And across Nevada, there are dozens of transportation projects and energy projects and construction projects putting people to work doing the work that America needs done.
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Increasing oil production takes quite a few years, involving time spent on seismic studies, exploratory drilling, production drilling, as well as construction of infrastructure for transportation and refining.
Two of the three most oversold are transportation by 25.9% and construction by 24.0%.
"I look at it and I'm in wonder, I'm in awe, " says engineer Michael Horodniceanu, president of capital construction for the state Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
And we need to pass a transportation bill that guarantees almost a million construction workers can stay on the job. (Applause.) The good news is both parties say they want to make this happen.
As Austan said, I think we will learn more about what this report means in the coming months as we look through some of the numbers underneath what do the construction numbers mean, what do the transportation numbers mean, what do the overall workforce numbers mean.
In fact, highway construction has often taken priority over building mass transportation systems.
The State of California, Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is responsible for the design, construction, maintenance, and operation of the California State Highway System, as well as that portion of the Interstate Highway System within the state's boundaries.
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I've been pretty vocal about how important it is to put these transportation investments into action and get hundreds of thousands of construction workers back on the job rebuilding our roads, bridges, airports, and transit systems.
If we allow our transportation law to expire without an extension, almost 1 million construction and other workers will lose their jobs over the coming year.
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Jo Ellen Sines is the VP of Project Development at Corman Construction, Inc and the past Chair of the Maryland Transportation Builders and Materials Association.
We just released a report that shows nearly 90 percent of the construction, manufacturing and trade jobs created through investments in transportation projects are middle class jobs.
An estimated 600, 000 to 1 million of these jobs would be directly in manufacturing, with the remainder in construction, orders for new equipment, supporting services, transportation and retail sales.
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Key industries in the region that are expected to benefit the most include: construction, machinery manufacturing, fabricated metal manufacturing, water transportation, professional and technical services, electrical equipment manufacturing, plastics products manufacturing and primary metals manufacturing.
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