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With insights into acoustics and architecture — and music performance — Frank Reder has joined Buro Happold as their U.S. discipline lead. The addition brings a dedicated and nationally active expert resource in the art of acoustic design to complement the engineering consultancy’s team of over 40 acoustics specialists worldwide.

The Metal Construction Association has announced a new membership class for subsidiary brands or divisions of a parent company. This membership class allows companies with multiple subsidiaries or divisions to have each brand recognized as an MCA member at a reduced rate.

L&W Supply has announced the induction of 44 branch managers into its Managing Partner Program. The designation is the highest level of achievement among the company’s branch managers and places them in a distinguished position of leadership at L&W Supply.

Full details will be outlined on the SPFA website in two weeks, but here are the highlights.

The U.S. Department of Labor released its 812-page pre-publication version of the final rule to modernize Davis-Bacon prevailing wage that SWACCA has been engaged on dating back to the Biden presidential transition. The final rule represents the most sweeping overhaul of Davis-Bacon regulations since the Reagan Administration.

Aug. 8’s announcement makes some improvements but critically misses an opportunity to improve the wage determination process and further burdens overregulated construction contractors building and upgrading the nation’s infrastructure.

Dupont recently partnered with “Military Makeover,” an award-winning home improvement show hosted by Montel Williams that aims to transform the homes and lives of military families across the country.

This marks half a century (yes, 50 years) of the SPF industry being served by a trade association. It all started in 1973 with the Urethane Foam Contractors Association. Through the years, that association has taken on new names but in 2003, SPFA, as we currently know it, was named.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to implement the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. Enacted in December 2022, the PWFA requires covered entities to provide reasonable accommodations to a worker’s known limitation related to pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, unless the accommodation will cause the employer undue hardship.

The results are in on the first-ever U.S. Collegiate Design-Build Passive House Ice Box Challenge with the Pratt Institute School of Architecture.