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The Stucco Manufacturers Association recently released its Summer 2024 Tech Talk Newsletter for Stucco. The newsletter covers SMA happenings, the benefits of fluid-applied barriers, ventilation code changes and rainscreens.

Don Allen, P.E., S.E., LEED AP, is the Steel Framing Industry Association’s new executive director, effective Aug. 1. Allen succeeds Larry Williams, who will be retiring.

Just a few reminders about the upcoming FWCCA show.

Simpson Strong-Tie has announced the recipients of its Student Scholarship for the 2024–2025 academic year. The 120 scholarship recipients are undergraduates majoring in architecture, civil/structural engineering or construction management/technology across the country. The scholarship awards $3,000 to qualifying university students to help them meet tuition costs.

Sto Corp. has broken ground on a new manufacturing facility in Muncipio de Dalina, Victoria, Nuevo Leon.

Jamie Chambers, director of member success for the Delaware Contractors Association, used to find it hard to make parents of middle school students understand that jobs in construction are more than digging ditches on the side of the road for $7 an hour, according to Katie Tabeling of the Delaware Business Times.

Construction has officially begun on a $500 million development with two towers and green space at the site of the previously planned Chicago Spire. The Related Co. project begins with a 72-story residential tower, to be followed by a smaller high-rise, on a site where the earlier plans called for a 2,000-foot-high condominium tower.

For its efforts in establishing a solid foundation to attract private investment and further build on municipality assets, the Village of Blissfield, Michigan, has been awarded the Redevelopment-Ready Communities certification, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation announced on June 18.

Plans for the first super-tall tower in Miami are advancing with developer Property Markets Group’s securing of a $668 million loan for the project.

JLG has been honored by The Washington Post as one of the best places to work in the Washington, D.C. area.