Fellow blogger and partner Robert Thomas reports the Hawaii Supreme Court has issued an opinion finding the City was not allowed to consider the rail project's impacts on burial sites on a piecemeal basis.   The case has been remanded to the trial court. 

Blue Earth has acquired the exclusive rights to build seven PV projects in Hawaii which will have a total output of approximately 3.5MW. The projects are valued at around US$15 million.

Hawaii has the second most solar photovoltaic systems, as well as the most EV’s and charging spots per capita in the country, and it’s…

Senator Dan Inouye walked the site of future construction of the rail control center.  Says the senator:

A new Hawaii News Now and Star Advertiser poll reveals that by a 50-43 majority, more Oahu residents would rather see construction on the rail system stopped than proceed.  In the meantime, rail construction continues, and new rail contracts continue to be signed.  Today it was announced that the Rail Electrification business unit of Siemens Infrastructure & Cities Sector (which…

The Okada Trucking decision issued by the Hawaii Supreme court in January 2002, changed drastically the scope of work that could be legally self-performed by general contractors licensed in the State of Hawaii.  Whereas formerly, general contractors could self-perform nearly all of the work covered by C-specialty licenses with some notable exceptions (work that required…

Reviewing legislative updates for the past session, I checked on the status of an act I previously noted was making its way through the legislature — the bill was HB 1969, and as originally crafted, did not make a lot of sense.  HB 1969 was intended to apply the  prompt payment provisions currently applicable…

Hawaii's contractor licensing laws already make it a criminal misdemeanor to act as if one is a licensed contractor without a contractors' license.  However, the penalty is up to one year in prison and it is not, as stated above, a felony.  In a recent ICA decision, the court upheld a trial court's indictment of an…

Spending on private residential construction increased for the second consecutive month in May as spending on both single-family and multifamily construction edged higher during month resulting in double digit gains for both compared to a year ago according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Overall, the Department of Commerce released the Construction Spending report this morning.