Costly concrete takes a toll
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The spike is a key factor busting the budgets of local construction projects ranging from single-family houses to the new Bay Bridge span and the planned Laguna Honda Hospital replacement.
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By Scott Rothschild, Journal-World, Lawrence, Kan.  Dec. 17--TOPEKA -- Kansas is gaining ground, and not in a good way.   The state's lakes and reservoirs are filling in with sediment, sometimes at alarming rates, and that could mean hundreds of millions of dollars in dredging costs.
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Hurricane Katrina's victims have put a price tag on their suffering and it is staggering Â including one plaintiff seeking the unlikely sum of $3 quadrillion.
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We can understand the anger exhibited by members of the Rhode Island House Finance Committee the other week over a cost overrun of 22 percent in the renovation of the state's civic arena (a.k.a., the Dunkin' Donuts Center).
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Plagued by delays and cost overruns, a $5.1 billion renovation of San Francisco&#39;s Bay Bridge has run into added problems as the state refuses to pay for
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Federal program is grappling with costlier and more complex sites and is facing a chronic reluctance by Congress to raise its budget.
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Convenience comes at too big a price.
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First came the floodwaters, then the paperwork. Billions of promised federal dollars to fix New Orleans' crumbling infrastructure have gone largely untapped a year after Hurricane Katrina. City officials complain that a snarl of red tape, restrictions and unexpectedly high costs have kept hundreds of public buildings in disrepair, streets pocked with potholes and most parks too dirty for children to play.
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With housing's recovery still uncertain, two cement stocks merit investigation.
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Manhattan's tower of steam is just one more dramatic example of the cost of letting urban infrastructure deteriorate
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More than a million homeowners could be at risk of serious financial difficulty in an economic slowdown, City regulator warns
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By By Kathe Tanner, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Sep. 21--The new Cambria Grammar School, which opened for classes last fall, has been plagued with costly construction- related headaches.
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Government subsidies can be a real drag.
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Twenty-five hundred tons of concrete, 350 tons of steel and nine tons of aluminum window frames will be left after a seven-story downtown building is taken down. But instead of ending in the scrap heap, the concrete will be ground up and used to fill the site, steel will be melted to create rebar and the aluminum will be reused in cans and other products.
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By Melissa Vargas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Jun. 9--HALTOM CITY -- When a resident near Spring Lake arrived home to  find a brick on her kitchen floor, a shattered window and $5,000 worth of her  belongings gone, she got mad.
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Real estate is expensive these days,  but it's still a valuable commodity.
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Minority homeowners are especially being hurt as rising interest rates make subprime loans even more expensive.