Publisher’s
Viewpoint Mark Buckshon, publisher
CELEBRATE your anniversary and
share your good news
with powerful editorial publicity
Your business has reached an anniversary milestone –
indicating experience, competence and reliability.
Effective anniversary publicity will help you cement
and grow your existing relationships and encourage
new clients to do business with you.
For more information please contact:
Chase, Account Manager
1-888-627-8717 Ext.212
chase@ncconstructionnews.com North Carolina Construction News (NCCN) is distributed
throughout the Carolinas construction industry.
NCCN is circulated on a controlled circulation list to
qualified readers including members of most major
construction associations in the Carolinas. The maga-
zine is supplemented by a weekly e-letter which
reaches more than 4,000 industry leaders each week.
For information contact:
Chase, Phone: 1-888-627-8717 ext 212
chase@ncconstructionnews.com www.ncconstructionnews.com. ISSN 1940-3682.
2 — AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2019 — The North Carolina Construction News
Deadlines are always a challenge in both the
construction and publishing businesses. You cer-
tainly don’t want to miss your submission deadline
for a bid or RFP response – and if your project has
a delivery time, the penalties for being late can be
challenging. I thought about these challenges as we were
preparing this issue of North Carolina Construction
News for publication.
Our lead story relates to the massive amounts
of recovery work still to do from Hurricane Flo-
rence – and we were assembling the publication
just as Hurricane Dorian began lashing the Outer
Banks and eastern parts of the state.
The question: Should we rebuild the issue to
cover Dorian, or leave things alone and focus on
the Florence recovery efforts.
I decided the “leave things” option would make
the most sense, especially since our story about
Florence describes the tangible rebuilding oppor-
tunities for contractors and subtrades – while the
news about Dorian is still developing.
We can certainly provide immediate coverage
at the ncconstructionnews.com website, but it
sees more logical for us to focus on the longer-
range rather than the short-term picture in this
magazine. And that is why we include Jacob D’Albora’s
story about the construction industry’s “tipping
point” towards modular construction – tied in with
climate change and labour shortages – which re-
late of course to hurricanes and this issue’s other
major story describing the challenges contractors
are having in filling both skilled and salaried jobs in
the state.
Next issue, we’ll undoubtedly have coverage
about the Dorian recovery effort and cost.
I always appreciate your feedback and re-
sponses as well as story suggestions. You can
email me at buckshon@ncconstructionnews.com.
S.T. Wooten leads $330 million I-40 Widening
project from Southeast Raleigh to Clayton
AGC survey: More than 90% of NC contractors
having trouble filling skilled craft positions
US Navy outlines strategy for $1.7 billion in
Hurricane Florence recovery projects at NC bases
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