BR hosted a legislative “Meet and Greet” forum with industry experts and area legislators at our office in November.

Mark Rogers is one of our estimators. I might be a bit biased, but I believe Mark is one of the most honest, friendly and sincere persons you could ever meet.

The tragic death of two construction workers on 35W in Burnsville last week is a stark reminder of the dangerous business of working near traffic.

Recent news articles have stated that while 45% of Minnesota’s workforce currently has post-graduate education, it is anticipated that 70% of Minnesota’s workforce will require post-graduate education by 2018.

We are definitely in full stride.

The weather now feels like construction weather. Warm days, cool nights, and daylight hours are getting noticeably shorter. This time of year we are always in full stride.

In the Twin Cities area, we typically have a 30-week construction season.

We recently received a phone call from a prospective customer in Woodbury who represented a health care facility. Nothing new, until the caller explained he had seen the work we recently completed on a neighboring shopping center and sought to find the contractor who did the work.

Well, the news came out last week that the governor and legislature have compromised and reached a budget deal. Or have they?

Members on both sides do not appear happy with the outcome.

The biggest news around here is not the Minnesota State government shutdown because, fortunately for us, we are not reliant solely on state work.

The biggest news around here is the retirement of longtime employee Tom Haller, which occurred July 1st.

Much of the news this week is going to be focused on the looming shutdown of our state government. What a shame it's come down to this. Voters sent representatives to St Paul with 2 main directives: Get Minnesota working; and fix the massive state deficit.

Another successful week of bidding! I believe we are close to being on track to where we need to be at this time with our workload. This is quite an accomplishment, considering where we were only one month ago. We've now put together a string of four solid weeks.