Federal, State, and Local Governments Are Moving to Upgrade Infrastructure The American Road and Transportation Builder’s Association (ARTBA) is projecting at least 5% growth in the transportation infrastructure construction sector in 2020, according to the ARTBA annual report. In their December 2019 press release, ARTBA’s chief economist, Dr. Alison Premo Black stated:
The Real Infrastructure Spending Gap Despite the urgency of the ongoing infrastructure debate, US real infrastructure spending in the last decade (2007-2017) has actually dropped by nearly $10 billion. This is quite a startling statistic considering the recent spotlight on the infrastructure spending debate which was a significant campaign plank for President Trump and a […]
Reversing the Productivity Decline in the Construction Industry
By the Resource Erectors Research Team For decades, the asphalt paving sector earned a reputation as one of the most stubborn, tradition-bound corners of heavy civil infrastructure. Paving crews judged mat consistency by eye, gauged temperature by the soles of their work boots, and verified density hours after the rollers left the job site with […]
By the Resource Erectors Research Team In the strategic chess match for critical mineral sovereignty, all roads in North America eventually lead through the high Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California. There sits the Mountain Pass Rare Earth Mine, operated by MP Materials. As the only active commercial rare earth mining, processing, and chemical […]
By the Resource Erectors Research Team For half a century, the story of American primary steelmaking was largely told through legacy narratives of deindustrialization, shuttered blast furnaces, and deepening reliance on imported raw materials. That script was decisively rewritten when Mesabi Metallics announced an $18 billion capital program to construct a fully integrated domestic mine-to-mill […]
By Aggie and the Resource Erectors Research Team Dear Aggie, I have spent the last five years working as a quarry production supervisor and assistant plant superintendent in the crushed stone business. Right now, I help run a clean, steady limestone operation producing roughly 400,000 tons a year. I know our deposit inside and out, […]
By the Resource Erectors Research Team For anyone in heavy industry who still believes that autonomous haulage and mine electrification were twenty-year science experiments, the massive halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center permanently shattered that illusion during the quadrennial MINExpo International. Announced on the show floor on September 25 during the premier equipment gathering, […]
By the Resource Erectors Research Team International trade diplomacy and heavy mineral extraction collided on the world stage this week as President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping finalized a high-impact bilateral trade consensus. Headlining the diplomatic breakthrough is a binding commodities purchase agreement: China will import at least 20 million metric tons of […]
By the Resource Erectors Research Team Seven years ago, we examined a balance sheet blind spot that quietly drains industrial producers: the hidden, accumulating high cost of vacant operational seats known in HR circles as COV. Back in 2019, leaving a project manager, continuous processing supervisor, or mining engineer seat open for three to six […]
By the Resource Erectors Research Team As North America rolls toward the fourth quarter of 2026, the American Midwest continues to anchor the country’s industrial resurgence. Capital investments that began as blueprint projections two years ago have reached the active pouring phase. From mega-scale semiconductor fabrication corridors and electric vehicle battery campuses to regional transportation […]
By the Resource Erectors Research Team As heavy industry closes out a record summer and charges into the final quarter of the year, the American Midwest has emerged as the nation’s undisputed epicenter of physical capital deployment. In our recent analysis of heartland aggregates consolidation and regional M&A, we documented how multi-quarry acquisitions across Indiana […]
Federal, State, and Local Governments Are Moving to Upgrade Infrastructure The American Road and Transportation Builder’s Association (ARTBA) is projecting at least 5% growth in
The Real Infrastructure Spending Gap Despite the urgency of the ongoing infrastructure debate, US real infrastructure spending in the last decade (2007-2017) has actually dropped
Reversing the Productivity Decline in the Construction Industry
By the Resource Erectors Research Team For decades, the asphalt paving sector earned a reputation as one of the most stubborn, tradition-bound corners of heavy
By the Resource Erectors Research Team In the strategic chess match for critical mineral sovereignty, all roads in North America eventually lead through the high
By the Resource Erectors Research Team For half a century, the story of American primary steelmaking was largely told through legacy narratives of deindustrialization, shuttered
By Aggie and the Resource Erectors Research Team Dear Aggie, I have spent the last five years working as a quarry production supervisor and assistant
By the Resource Erectors Research Team For anyone in heavy industry who still believes that autonomous haulage and mine electrification were twenty-year science experiments, the
By the Resource Erectors Research Team International trade diplomacy and heavy mineral extraction collided on the world stage this week as President Donald Trump and
By the Resource Erectors Research Team Seven years ago, we examined a balance sheet blind spot that quietly drains industrial producers: the hidden, accumulating high
By the Resource Erectors Research Team As North America rolls toward the fourth quarter of 2026, the American Midwest continues to anchor the country’s industrial
By the Resource Erectors Research Team As heavy industry closes out a record summer and charges into the final quarter of the year, the American