Project Uptime
Project Uptime
To Boost Employee Safety, Make it Personal
July 23, 2018
Bring home the reasons for the rules, and the risks of breaking them. Ever wondered why your employees take unnecessary safety risks or neglect basic safety practices? While they...
4 Tips for Effectively Implementing New Construction Technology
July 23, 2018
You’ve developed a technology roadmap for your company and prioritized where you want your tech dollars to go over the next few years. Now you’re ready to put your latest big...
The 3 Non-Engineering Skills You'll Need as a Construction Project Engineer
July 20, 2018
The construction industry is hiring fast to try to keep up with demand, which means jobs are abundant for engineers entering the workforce. But to succeed in one of those jobs...
Does Your Company Culture Embrace Change?
July 19, 2018
Slowly but surely, the construction industry is changing, and companies that don’t embrace change will, later or sooner, be left behind. Contractors are realizing they must evolve...
7 Ways to Attract, Grow and Retain Generation Z Employees
July 17, 2018
Make no mistake about it, Generation Z is going to shake things up when they enter the workforce, which is already happening. These young adults, born after 1996 (the oldest are...
Protecting Workers from the Other Sun Hazard: Skin Cancer
By Marianne Wait | July 17, 2018
Sweating it out in the heat on a jobsite is no fun and can even be dangerous, which is why it’s so important for employers to have a heat illness prevention plan . But heat-related...
What it Takes to be a Strong Mentor
July 13, 2018
Passion, personality and availability all count. In the construction industry, lessons learned from a book can take an employee only so far. Most skills are honed on the job over...
Innovative Uses for Composite Materials
July 13, 2018
Composite materials, sometimes referred to as fiber-reinforced polymers (FRP), combine the properties of a polymer (resin) and natural or man-made fibers to produce strong yet...
Tips for More Effective Materials Management
July 13, 2018
Materials management has a huge impact on project productivity, not to mention project costs. Whether you’re constantly bringing in deliveries, wasting time sitting around waiting...
Design-Build Contracts Predicted to Soar
By Marianne Wait | July 10, 2018
In construction, design-bid-build (D/B/B) used to be the name of the game. Slowly but surely, however, other, more collaborative, project delivery methods are taking its place. And...