Completing a building project on time keeps your customers happy, helps you stay profitable and allows you to move your resources on to the next job. Creating and sticking to a...

During times of economic prosperity, two interesting phenomena occur. First, a rising tide raises all ships, and this leads some business owners to believe their business...

You’ve probably known a manager or two who gave daily construction reports short shrift. Perhaps you’ve even been that manager. In an industry where nothing can move fast enough...

Design-bid-build is slowly making way for design-build, a project delivery method that allows projects to happen faster and often saves money in the process. Under design-build, t...

Boosting productivity is a big-ticket item on every construction company’s wish list. Technology is of course one way to do it. (United Rentals’ Helge Jacobsen predicts 2018 will...

Keeping change orders to a minimum can help protect a project’s schedule and often, your budget. But some change orders are inevitable, so it’s important to have a process for...

A general contractor's leadership team in the field is a critical part of its safety culture. Superintendents and foremen set the tone for other employees and for subcontractors...

Quality doesn’t happen by accident. If you want a high-quality end product, you need to plan for it from the beginning. And that means having a written quality control plan you can...

First there were green buildings. Are green communities next? A sign of the times: Sustainability standards are popping up to encourage communities, neighborhoods and business...

Since the opening of the expanded Panama Canal in June 2016, many shipping lines are using wider, longer and heavier vessels to deliver goods to seaports along the U.S. East Coast...