Alabama’s Top Industries: Where the State Excels
Alabama's top industries in medical research, automotive, forestry, sports venues, iron and steel, greenhouse and nursery products, workforce training, construction, space and rockets, ships,...
Go Build Alabama: Workforce Campaign Nails Solid Growth Metrics
The Go Build Alabama campaign to improve the image of the construction industry in the minds of potential skilled workers has been declared a...
Dale and Coffee Counties Take The Spotlight: Aviation and Aerospace
Dale and Coffee counties, part of Alabama’s Wiregrass region, are among the state’s hot spots for aviation and aerospace. Fort Rucker, the home of...
Building Project – A Quantum Leap in Sustainable Building
It’s a new construction certification program even more rigorous than LEED, the once-daunting Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design, a green building certification program...
Economic Development – Bentley Proposes New Game Plan on Incentives
A new tax credit for job creation is the centerpiece of Gov. Robert Bentley’s proposed fix of Alabama’s dwindling fund for economic development incentives,...
Multifamily Housing – Downtown Digs, Coast to Coast
President and founder of Birmingham-based Capstone Building Corp., Jay Chapman is one of the leading Alabama general contractors in one of the few truly...
Brooke Pancake – LPGA’s Pancake All about the Waffles
LPGA rising star Brooke Pancake led the University of Alabama to the school’s first national golf championship in 2012. She was named first team...
AGC and ABC – What Builders Want from the Legislature
Members of two Alabama construction trade associations say they will be looking to the state Legislature this spring to give their industry an economic...
UAB and Southern Research: Partnership to Speed Ideas to Applications
Frequent collaborators UAB and Southern Research are teaming up once again, this time with a partnership that will attempt to tap into the lucrative...
Forecasters Predict Clearing Skies, 3.2 percent Growth
Economic forecasters have learned in the past few years that there’s never been a better time to hedge their bets.
David Altig, a Federal Reserve...
