US Home Construction Falls 22.3% in March

Content: Long Island Construction Law did not create this content. This article was written by The Associated Press, and was published to the Long Island Business News on April 16th, 2020.

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New US Home Construction Dips Again In February

Content: Long Island Construction Law did not create this content. This article was written by The Associated Press, and was published to the Long Island Business News on March 18th, 2020.

New home construction fell again in February, but not as much as the previous month. Those declines follow a December surge which had pushed home construction to the highest level in 13 years. Builders started construction on 1.60 million homes at a seasonally adjusted annual rate, a decline of 1.5% from 1.62 million units in January, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday.

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Long Island Construction Employment On The Rise

Long Island Construction Law did not create this content about Long Island Construction Employment. This article was written by David Winzelberg, and was published to the Long Island Business News on January 3rd, 2020.

Long Island Construction employment saw a significant increase in November as compared with the previous year, according to the latest report from the Associated General Contractors of America.

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Nonresidential Construction Starts Soar

Long Island Construction Law did not create this content about New York Construction. This article was written by David Winzelberg, and was published to the Long Island Business News on October 30th, 2019.

The number of New York-area nonresidential construction starts soared in September, as both residential and nonresidential construction starts have drawn even with last year.

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Long Island Construction Attorney John Caravella Invited to Speak at the AIA Contract Document Workshop

On October 17th, 2019 John Caravella, a Long Island Construction Attorney, will be speaking at the AIA Contract Document Workshop located in Ronkonkoma, New York. Held and organized by Halfmoon Education Incorporated, the AIA Contract Document Workshop will analyze most common AIA contract documents and ways to use them. Specifically, this seminar will cover the examination of primary AIA Contract documents and General Conditions, learning about supplemental or alternate AIA contract documents, reviewing contract fundamentals, agreements between owner, architect, designer-builder and construction manager and evaluating completed contract documents for sample projects.

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New York Construction starts rebound in August

Long Island Construction Law did not create this content about New York Construction. This article was written by David Winzelberg, and was published to the Long Island Business News on September 26th, 2019.

After a drop in activity in July, the number of New York-area residential construction starts rebounded in August, as both residential and nonresidential construction starts increased.

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Long Island Construction Employment Soars In June

Long Island Construction Law did not create this content. This article was written by David Winzelberg, and was published to the Long Island Business News on July 31st, 2019

Construction employment on Long Island soared in June as compared with the previous year, according to the latest report from the Associated General Contractors of America.

Between June 2018 and June 2019, Nassau and Suffolk counties gained about 7,600 construction jobs, which was a 9 percent rise for a current total of about 93,200 people employed in construction here.

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Construction Starts Rebound in March

Long Island Construction Law did not create this content. This article was written by David Winzelberg, and was published to the Long Island Business News on April 25th, 2019. 

The number of New York-area construction starts rose last month, rebounding after three straight months of declines.

There were about $3.9 billion in construction starts in the New York area last month, 40 percent more than the $2.79 billion in construction starts recorded in March 2018, according to the latest report from Dodge Data & Analytics.

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Long Island Construction Employment is Still Rising

Long Island Construction Law did not create this content. This article was written by David Winzelberg, and was published to the Long Island Business News on March 15th, 2019. 

The number of construction jobs on Long Island continued to climb in January as compared with the previous year, according to the latest report from the Associated General Contractors of America.

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