The Future of Building: Cartridge Construction?
The future of building is based in the effort to answer one of construction’s most pressing challenges: How to efficiently turn the disparate items that make up a structure (wire...
Construction's Fatal Four: Avoid These Deadly Jobsite Accidents With Proper Safety Training
Learn the four most common causes of fatal injuries on construction sites, and how to avoid them. Each day in the United States, an average of two construction workers die and...
10 U.S. Cities with the Biggest Infrastructure Budgets for 2017
Future infrastructure spending is anyone’ s guess — if Donald Trump’s proposed $1 trillion infrastructure investment plan comes to fruition, cranes could be dotting the skylines...
Project Security: How to Keep Your Site Safe around the Clock
Construction jobsite theft totals some $1 billion annually, according to National Equipment Register. And that doesn’t include costs of business interruption, such as project delay...
Recruiting for Millennials in Construction: What You Need to Know
Buildings are going up despite the shortage of skilled labor in the construction industry. But the shortage is critical enough that it’s slowing down some projects, especially in...
5 Building Blocks of Safer Construction Sites
The key to a safer workplace isn't just in the tracking and reporting of accidents. You've got to start from the ground up, building a company-wide culture of safety that’s rooted...
Construction Spending Continued its 2016 Climb
U.S. construction spending has been more or less on the rise (with a few dips along the way) for years. And while December data isn’t yet available, it looks like 2016 was a good...
Military Skills Translator: Find a Job Based on Your Service Experience
The one-million-plus service members projected to leave the military between now and 2016 could go a long way toward filling the shortage of qualified workers in the construction...
Forklift to Corner Office: 4 Construction CEOs Who Started from the Bottom
Not every CEO has a master's degree in business, or made it to the top through family connections. As these four construction company head honchos prove, working your way to the...
Augmented and Virtual Reality: What They Mean for Safety and Training
The virtues of virtual reality have been touted for more than 20 years, to the point that one is tempted to paraphrase Charles De Gaulle and suggest that VR is “the technology of...
