Finally, after more than two years (and 8 months, to be exact), the AIA ABI Index comes in above 50 !!!!! Let’s hope that this is just the start of more good news to come. Let’s also hope that this news is not at all like the news the Fed Government released a couple of…

Earlier this year, Service Point Solutions “corporate” announced that it replaced its then overall Managing Director (Rafael Lopez-Aparicio Areilza). Now, there’s been a change in management at Service Point’s USA operations. Service Point issued a Press Release on October 20, 2010 to announce that Kevin Eyers has assumed the leadership role at its USA operations.…

one of my industry associates pointed me to this press release….. Press Release from Associated General Contractors (from the AGC’s national association headquarters) Title: CONSTRUCTION EMPLOYMENT NEAR 14-YEAR LOW AS 21,000 INDUSTRY JOBS LOST IN SEPTEMBER, UNEMPLOYMENT RATE CLIMBS TO 17.2 PERCENT Date: October 8, 2010 Construction Industry Unemployment At Highest September Rate Ever Recorded…

Auction to be held to auction off 125 condominium units at OASIS Condominium Project in Fort Myers, Florida! Timing is everything, huh. I can remember when construction began on this project. Unfortunately, by the time the project was ready for occupancy (in 2008) the market in Florida for high-rise residential condominiums had plunged, and buyers…

OCE just issued a press release covering its most recent results. I’m only going to put a portion of the press release in today’s blog-post; the portion that pertains to OCE’s WFPS (wide-format-printing-systems) results; here’s what OCE said about that: Wide Format Printing Systems (WFPS)Compared to the third quarter of 2009 the WFPS revenues recovered,…

During the NBC Nightly News, last night, they compared the U.S. school system to Finland’s school system; Finland’s school system ranks #1 in the world; the U.S. school system ranks #17 (or was it even lower than that?) Finland’s teachers come from the top 10% of Finland’s college graduates; teachers in the U.S come from…

I view this as “good news” for reprographers……. IRgA Co-Locates with ISA Sign Expo 2011 at Mandalay Bay The International Sign Association (ISA) has partnered with the International Reprographic Association (IRgA) to provide its attendees and exhibitors increased value in one central location. The co-location will provide exposure to vertical markets that have historically not…

From an article posted on AGC’s site (under “construction economics); date of article was Sep 24, 2010…. McGraw-Hill Construction (MHC) and Reed Construction Data offered differing estimates of new construction starts in Augusts, based on data they separately compiled. MHC said on Tuesday that total starts increased 6% from July to August at a seasonally…

New stuff announced by HP……… The title of this blog post contains HP’s words, not mine. Whether HP’s new T2300 will actually prove to be “the world’s most collaborative large-format printer” remains to be seen…….. First, just a couple of comments from me: A. Wow, a large-format multifunction system (scan/copy/print), one that prints in b/w…