Join CAM and the Home Builders Association of Southeastern Michigan (HBA), Tuesday June 25, as they present their third annual Mid-Year Sterling Inn in Sterling Heights, from 7:30 am to 10:30 am.

Beginning at 7:30 am, attendees can tour tabletop displays representing many businesses in the construction industry, and have the opportunity to meet the speakers at the pre-breakfast reception. Breakfast and presentations will take place from 9:00 am to 10:30 am.

According to CAM’s Construction Activity Index survey among its membership in early April, respondents’ overall assessment of their internal business conditions, as profiled by the All Variables Index in Chart #1, moved to an average of 53.8 during the first quarter, just slightly under the early January index of 54.9 for future expectations for the January through March period.

Applications for Operating Engineers Local 324 Journeyman & Apprentice Training Fund, Inc. apprenticeship program will be available for qualified applicants at the locations listed below for the following classifications, dates and times.

ONLY: HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATOR “OR” 
          HEAVY EQUIPMENT TECHNICIAN

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Friday, June 7, 2013 

Between the Hours of: 9:00 am - 12:00 pm AND 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

APPLICATIONS ARE “LIMITED” & WILL BE GIVEN OUT ON A FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVE BASIS FOR THE DESIGNATED TIMES LISTED ABOVE ONLY.

Respondents to CAM’s March Construction Activity Index (CAI) survey showed a weakening in the overall aspects of respondent’s February in-house activities, with the drop in the all variables index to 47.9 from 58.9 in January - its first fall into negative territory since the 49.5 reading posted in October 2012 (see Chart # 1). The reason this composite measure of internal activities deteriorated so much is that revenue aspects in the market segments where respondents do business, as measured by the project awards index, plunged 56 percent to 21.4 in February from 48.6 in January, and the index of projects bid sank 12 percent to 57.1 from 64.9. At the same time, the cost aspects of their activities, the materials prices index, rose to 82.1 from 75.7, and the labor rates index crept upward to 57.1 from 56.8.  Accompanying the falloff in the project awards and projects bid indices, employment needs, as measured by the workforce size index, plummeted to 21.4 from 48.6.