Get your message heard — and get the outcome you want. In a fast-moving business like construction, with its countless moving parts and multiple stakeholders, miscommunication can...

While working with an IPD team on a large microchip plant a few years ago, we were feeling pretty good about their progress. A group of us from LeanProject were discussing the team...

Despite rising construction wages (they increased 3.8 percent over the last year), contractors continue to have trouble recruiting enough skilled workers to meet their workforce...

Summer poses a double safety whammy: Your construction business is in full swing, which means workers are probably putting in more hours, and the heat of the season is making their...

Matching the bucket teeth on your excavator, loader or backhoe to the job cuts wear and tear on the teeth and the bucket. And it lets your equipment work to its highest potential...

Editor’s note: This is the second article in a three-part series on growing your small construction business. In part 1 of our series on growing your small construction business...

Waste not, want not. Or, if you’re in the construction business, waste less, spend less — especially when it comes to materials, which make up a big chunk of your budget. The cost...

And why that is good for the construction industry. As building project owners search for ways to more effectively invest their capital, they are turning to an approach known as...

Editor’s note: This is the first article in a three-part series on growing your small construction business. Running a small construction business is one thing. Growing it is...