'Roll with the punches': Construction industry bracing for tariff's effects

'Roll with the punches': Construction industry bracing for tariff's effects

After President Trump announced a baseline 10 percent tariff on imports, many industries are bracing for the effects, construction being one of them.Robby Hagemann is the President of Boardman, LLC. in Oklahoma City. He said steel has been one of the biggest resources to see an increase in prices the most.I read something today, it was specific to some stainless plate was like, 40 bucks a ton," he said. "Which doesn't sound like a lot, but when …

Current developments in the construction sector were discussed yesterday at the meeting between Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister and Government Spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis and the President of the Panhellenic Union of Certified Public Works Engineers (PEDMEDE), Mr. Konstantinos Goliopoulos. Mr. Goliopoulos informed the Minister about important issues of concern to the sector and Mr. Marinakis […]