For many months, workers and visitors to Providence’s Downcity neighborhood have wondered what that big plastic covering on a building at the corner of Weybosset and Dorrance streets was about. more

Although all industries and individuals have benefitted greatly from the availability of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), perhaps no industry has benefited more than the construction industry. The reasons to use ADR are compelling. more

Confidence among U.S. homebuilders climbed in September to the highest level in more than six years, adding to signs of progress in residential construction. more

Pamela House considers herself lucky to have found someone willing to take a chance and offer her a foot in the door to a lifelong career when she was a single mother in the late 1970s, with only a part-time job and no real job training. more

Workers install wooden piles as well as rebar for concrete beneath the new Sakonnet River Bridge on Sept. 24. The new bridge is on the left; the old one on the right. Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee joined officials from the R.I. Department of Transportation for a tour of the new bridge the same day. DOT opened northbound traffic on Route 24 onto the new bridge Sept. 20. Southbound traffic on Route 24 will also shift to the new bridge. The bridge and ramps are set for completion in 2013. Construction crews broke ground on the $163.7 million bridge project, which carries Route 24 between Tiverton and Portsmouth, in April 2009. more

Quonset Development Corporation has partnered with a developer to build the first of what could be more than a dozen buildings with flexible office space for startups and small businesses in Quonset Business Park. more

For The Plastics Group of America President Robert A. Lebeaux, the mill project he’s been absorbed in is more than an expansion of his company: It is a renovation, a restoration and the resurrection of a piece of history. more

Sometimes when patrons come to Iron Works Tavern in Warwick, they spend more time looking up at the building’s ceiling than at the restaurant’s menu. more

In its annual construction-industry economic report, Gilbane Building Co.predicted a downturn in construction spending in early 2013. more

Construction employment rose in 130 out of 337 metro areas, including the Providence-Fall River-Warwick area, dropped in 164 out of 337 metro areas, including New Bedford metro area, and stayed stagnant in 43 metro areas from August 2011 and August 2012. more