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As new challenges arise with the COVID-19 Delta variant, health and safety continues to be STAFDA’s top priority.

Following agreement on Senate passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Portland Cement Association (PCA) President and CEO, Mike Ireland released a statement applauding the decision. 

For the past two years, Todd Brady, inventor of Slotted Track and ProX Header and current Co-founder and Chief Business Officer of Hyperframe Inc., along with Jay Cady and Ken Sobel, has been working on a revolutionary metal framing system called Hyperframe. 

Hy-Brid Lifts announced record sales in the first half of 2021, with projections for the second half of the year on track to continue in a positive trend. Global sales rose 68% compared to the previous year, spurred by a 110% growth in Push-Around Series sales.

The construction industry added 11,000 jobs between June and July but nonresidential construction employment remains far below pre-pandemic levels.

Simpson Strong-Tie announced the recipients of its Student Scholarship for the 2021–2022 academic year. 

The Cold-Formed Steel Engineers Institute (CFSEI) will host a webinar on “Innovative Cold-Formed Steel Floor System: Development, Behavior and Detailing” on Thursday, August 26, 2021 from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. EDT.

Hunter Panels is proud to be a part of the new Children’s Museum and Theater of Maine that opened late June.

Demand for different types of construction continued to diverge in June as residential construction increased for the month and the year while nonresidential construction spending fell...again. 

L&W Supply Corporation has finalized its purchase of the assets of the Eastern U.S. Gypsum Distribution Operations of Builders FirstSource, Inc.